U.S. Freeski Team Reveals 2025–26 Roster Packed With Olympic Stars

U.S. Ski & Snowboard has announced which freeskiers, in disciplines like halfpipe and big air, will represent the stars and stripes on the World Cup circuit this season. 

The crew includes established stars, some of whom have also already prequalified for the U.S. squad heading to the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, like slopestyle skier Alex Hall and halfpipe specialist Alex Ferreira. 

The men’s pro U.S. halfpipe team consists mainly of returning athletes, with only one skier, Matt Labaugh, earning a promotion to the roster after a successful 2024-25 season that included a third-place finish at the World Cup halfpipe competition in Aspen, Colorado.

Ferreira, meanwhile, podiumed at every World Cup halfpipe competition he entered last winter. In leading the men’s pro halfpipe team, he’s joined by veteran David Wise and slopestyle skier turned halfpipe skier Nick Goepper (Goepper, like Ferreira, didn’t miss the podium last winter).

Two-time X Games medalist Hunter Hess is another U.S. halfpipe skier to watch. 

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On the women’s halfpipe side, Svea Irving is coming off a standout 2025 season, with several top-five and podium finishes. She’s backed up by the likes of Hanna Faulhaber and Riley Jacobs. 

The men’s and women’s big air & slopestyle teams also consist of X Games medalists and Olympians. Rell Harwood took first in the X Games Knuckle Huck last winter. Previously, in 2024, she claimed bronze at the X Games Big Air competition. Grace Henderson, another member of the women’s big air & slopestyle team, is an X Games medalist, too, with a second-place finish in Big Air in 2025.

Alex Hall, the defending Olympic gold medalist in slopestyle, headlines the men’s big & slopestyle team alongside Colby Stevenson, who earned an Olympic silver medal in the previous Winter Games. 

Skogen Sprang, the Stifel U.S. Freeski Team Sport Director, said in a press release that with the Olympics approaching this year, the coming season will be “very competitive and exciting” as athletes vie for one of a few tickets to Italy. 

Team USA athletes have been “working hard all summer on the airbag and just completed their summer training, sharpening up their skills and working on new, creative tricks. We’re stoked to be back on snow in early November and from there it’s game on!” Sprang added.

See the complete pro rosters below.

U.S. Halfpipe Pro Team

Women

• Hanna Faulhaber 
• Svea Irving 
• Riley Jacobs

Men

• Aaron Blunck 
• Tristan Feinberg 
• Alex Ferreira
• Nick Goepper 
• Hunter Hess 
• Birk Irving 
• Matthew Labaugh 
• Dylan Ladd
• David Wise 

U.S. Slopestyle & Big Air Pro Team

Women

• Ella Andrews 
• Marin Hamill 
• Rell Harwood 
• Grace Henderson 
• Jay Riccomini 

Men

• Mac Forehand 
• Alex Hall 
• Hunter Henderson 
• Cody LaPlante 
• Troy Podmilsak
• Konnor Ralph 
• Colby Stevenson 

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