Silverthorne represent!
The Summit County hamlet is home to three of U.S. Snowboarding’s four slopestyle and big air Olympians, with 20-year-old Kyle Mack, a Silverthorne resident from Michigan, pushing hard in final qualifying contests to join Red Gerard, Chris Corning and Alaskan veteran Ryan Stassel.
U.S. Snowboarding on Wednesday announced the athletes headed to South Korea’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Colorado is home to more than a third of the 26-athlete roster
Steamboat Springs halfpipe star Arielle Gold will seek at her second Olympics. Eagle’s first-ever Olympian, 19-year-old Jake Pates, will compete alongside Shaun White in the pipe.
Coloradoans make up half of the men’s snowboard cross team, with Steamboat Springs’ Mick Dierdorf and Telluride’s Hagan Kearney heading to their first-ever Olympics. Meaghan Tierney, of Edwards, made the four-athlete women’s team.
2018 OLYMPIC SNOWBOARD TEAM
Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle/Big Air
Chris Corning, Silverthorne
Red Gerard, Silverthorne
Kyle Mack, Royal Oak, MI
Ryan Stassel, Anchorage, AK
Women’s Snowboard Slopestyle/Big Air
Jamie Anderson, South Lake Tahoe, CA
Jessika Jenson, Rigby, ID
Julia Marino, Westport, CT
Hailey Langland, San Clemente, CA
Men’s Snowboard Halfpipe
Ben Ferguson, Bend, OR
Chase Josey, Hailey, ID
Jake Pates, Eagle
Shaun White, Carlsbad, CA
Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe
Kelly Clark, Mt. Snow, VT
Arielle Gold, Steamboat Springs
Chloe Kim, Torrance, CA
Maddie Mastro, Wrightwood, CA
Men’s Snowboardcross
Nick Baumgartner, Iron River, MI
Jonathan Cheever, Saugus, MA
Mick Dierdorff, Steamboat Springs
Hagan Kearney, Telluride
Women’s Snowboardcross
Lindsey Jacobellis, Roxbury, CT
Faye Gulini, Salt Lake City, UT
Meghan Tierney, Edwards
Rosie Mancari, Anchorage, AK
Men’s Parallel Giant Slalom
Aaron Muss, Rumson, N.J.
Michael Trapp, Hyannis, MA
