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U.S. Ski Team Announces Athlete Roster Ahead of Olympic Season

Originally posted on Powder | By Izzy Lidsky | Last updated May 15, 2025 4:10 PM ET

The Stifel U.S. Ski Team has announced their athlete roster for the 2025/26 season across all disciplines.

Athletes included in the announcement have been nominated to the team and still need to accept and adhere to team expectations prior to the official team announcement in September of 2025.

Disciplines for the U.S. Ski Team include alpine, cross-country, freeski, freestyle (moguls/aerials), nordic combined, para alpine, ski jumping, snowboard, and para snowboard.

The freeski category is made up of halfpipe pro athletes, halfpipe rookies, slopestyle/big air pro athletes, and slopestyle/big air rookies.

Nominated in the halfpipe pro category for the 2025/26 season are:

Aaron Blunck
Hanna Faulhaber
Tristan Feinberg
Alex Ferreria
Nick Goepper
Hunter Hess
Birk Irving
Svea Irving
Riley Jacobs
Matt Labaugh
Dylan Ladd
David Wise

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In the slopestyle/big air pro category for 2025/26:

Ella Andrews
Mac Forehand
Alex Hall
Marin Hamill
Rell Harwood
Grace Henderson
Hunter Henderson
Cody LaPlante
Troy Podmilsak
Konnor Ralph
Jay Riccomini
Colby Stevenson

The rookie halfpipe nominees include:

Piper Arnold
Ben Fethke
Nick Geiser
Kate Gray
Keva Kelly
Cael McCarthy
Kai Morris

Slopestyle/big air rookies:

Anders Chapman
Kate Gray
Avery Krumme
Hugh MacMenamin
Henry Townshend

American freeskier Alex Hall celebrates winning Gold in Men's Slopestyle at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.Photo: Lars Baron/Staff/Getty Images

Notably, the slopestyle team includes Olympic gold medalist, Alex Hall and silver medalist Colby Stevenson, as well as three-time X Games medalist Rell Harwood.

On the halfpipe side is Nick Goepper, who came out of retirement from an Olympic medal winning slopestyle/big air career to join the halfpipe team, two-time Olympic medalist Alex Ferreira, and X Games medalist Svea Irving.

On the Alpine Ski A Team are names familiar to fans of alpine racing such as Mikaela Shiffrin, World Championship medalist Lauren Macuga, two-time world champion Breezy Johnson, Super-G Olympic medalist Ryan Cochran-Siegle, as well as three-time Olympic medalist Lindsey Vonn who came out of retirement this year after several major injuries. Ben Ritchie and Katie Hensien join the A Team for the first time this year with Ritchie finishing the season as the world's top 20 slalom skier and Hensien had a career-best finish in at Soelden.

With the 2026 Winter Olympic Games looming ahead for 2026 as well, it's an important year for the U.S. Ski Team. Athletes named to the U.S. Olympic Ski Team must have certain results from FIS events throughout the season.

Stay tuned in here at POWDER for more pre-Olympics coverage. Milan-Cortina 2026 will be here before we know it.

This article first appeared on Powder and was syndicated with permission.

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