Featured Picture: Matt Powers | Skier: Svea Irving
The Stifel U.S. Freeski Workforce has introduced the athlete nominations for the 2026 Winter Olympics. This consists of the women and men skiers nominated to signify the crimson, white and blue in Slopestyle, Huge Air and Halfpipe.
To be clear, these are simply athlete nominations decided by established judging standards based mostly on “worldwide rankings and head-to-head competitors,” based on the U.S. Workforce web site. “The athletes are formally nominated to the groups in Could. Pending their acceptance of the nomination and adherence to the group expectations outlined in group standards, athletes can be formally introduced to the group in September 2025,” acknowledged the press launch on Could 15, 2025.
Whereas we’ll have to attend a number of extra months till we get to see the official roster, this primary look leads us to suppose that we’re in for a hell of a 12 months for Workforce U.S.A. Notable names embrace Alex Corridor, Rell Harwood, Svea Irving, Aaron Blunck, Mac Forehand… we might go on and on, however you get the purpose.
There are lots of takeaways and too many way-too-early predictions we might make, so we’ll hold it to our high few for now. Watching Nick Goepper, Alex Ferreira and Hunter Hess on the identical group goes to be surreal, and an enormous congrats to Goepper. The three-time Olympic medalist is trying to hold his streak alive, this time within the pipe.
It would even be fascinating to see how the judges lean in Huge Air. That is simply the second Olympics Huge Air has been a self-discipline in. Will spins to the longer term dominate, or will we see a good mix of methods on this extremely contested discipline?
Rell Harwood and Grace Henderson may have some steep competitors within the Slopestyle discipline, however the duo has a real shot at stacking the rostrum for the U.S. However maybe probably the most thrilling reveal from all of that is… we’re getting MAGMA Olympic content material now that Hess and A Corridor are seemingly headed to Italy.
Take a look at the Stifel U.S. Slopestyle and Halfpipe Freeski group nominations beneath!
Girls’s Professional Workforce 2026 Nominations
Hanna Faulhaber – Carbondale, CO
Svea Irving – Winter Park, CO
Riley Jacobs – Oak Creek, CO
Males’s Professional Workforce 2026 Nominations
Aaron Blunck – Crested Butte, CO
Tristan Feinberg – Aspen, CO
Alex Ferreira – Aspen, CO
Nick Goepper – Lawrenceburg, IN
Hunter Hess – Bend, OR
Birk Irving – Winter Park, CO
Matt Labaugh – Rye, NY
Dylan Ladd – Lakewood, CO
David Smart – Reno, NV
Girls’s Professional Workforce 2026 Nominations
Ella Andrews – Northampton, MA
Marin Hamill – Park Metropolis, UT
Rell Harwood – Park Metropolis, UT
Grace Henderson – Madbury, NH
Jay Riccomini – Port Matilda, PA
Males’s Professional Workforce 2026 Nominations
Mac Forehand – Winhall, VT
Alex Corridor – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT
Hunter Henderson – Madbury, NH
Cody LaPlante – Truckee, CA
Troy Podmilsak – Park Metropolis, UT
Konnor Ralph – Helena, MT
Colby Stevenson – Park Metropolis, UT
