2014 Olympic bronze medalist Alex Deibold has announced his retirement from competitive snowboardcross.

A native Vermonter, 36-year-old Deibold has been snowboarding since the age of four. He attended Stratton Mountain School with fellow teammate Lindsey Jacobellis, and U.S. Snowboard Team halfpipe alums Danny Davis and Louie Vito.

Deibold was first named to the U.S. Snowboard Team in 2004. He made his first FIS World Cup appearance in Furano, Japan in 2007, and spent the last 17 years competing at the highest levels. Along the way, Deibold found himself on the World Cup podium six times, and represented the United States five times at the World Championships.

His most memorable result came in 2014, at the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. After missing the cut for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Team, Deibold still found a way to be a part of the action, joining the team staff as a wax technician. Just four years later, he’d move from the wax room to the start gate, bringing home Team USA’s lone snowboardcross medal in Sochi. He battled it out and walked away with bronze. Reflecting on his experience of going from technician to Olympic medalist, Deibold told Team USA’s Lawrence Murray, “it was grueling work but it was a situation that I’m grateful for. I remembered what it was like to be there, and to stand on the podium…and wrap the flag around myself, all that sacrifice and hard work were more than worth it.”

He had a strong 2021-22 season, ultimately earning a spot on the 2022 Beijing Olympic Team. However, his plans were derailed when he suffered a major crash at the Cortina d’Ampezzo World Cup just five days before the Opening Ceremonies, leaving him in the hospital with a head injury and ultimately unable to join his teammates in Beijing. His teammates felt his absence sharply, and vowed to compete in his honor. Jake Vedder, who traveled to Beijing in Deibold’s place, said at the time, “I’m really trying to represent Alex and his whole family and do the best I can for him. Because this was 100% his spot. He deserved to be here.”

Outside of the start gate, Deibold has always been known for his passion for the environment and the outdoors, his work ethic and his leadership. He has served on the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Board of Directors as an athlete representative since 2021 and was an Athlete Role Model at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games. “Alex has had an incredible career, both on and off the hill,” said U.S. Ski & Snowboard President and CEO Sophie Goldschmidt. “His leadership and advocacy for athletes, his teammates and all those involved in the sport is something we will always be grateful for, and all of us at U.S. Ski & Snowboard wish him the best on his well-earned retirement. Congratulations on such an incredible career, Alex!”

His teammates will miss his advice and friendship, both on and off the race course. “Deibold was always a teammate that I knew I could talk to about anything. For myself as a younger athlete coming up, he always brought comfort to our team as one of the more experienced athletes,” said U.S. Snowboard Team athlete Senna Leith. “Whether I was wondering about a line choice on a course, or a career-based question outside of snowboarding, Deibold always had a plethora of knowledge he was willing to share and do so in an extremely friendly manner. It’s hard to find an athlete more professional and well rounded, and I am super thankful for all of the years and great memories on tour that we shared together.”

But don’t expect Deibold to take it easy in retirement. He’s chasing new adventures with Protect Our Winters, a non-profit focusing on legislation regarding climate change and looking forward to spending time on the mountain as a mentor to young snowboarders, and as a father.

“I’m both excited and terrified for the next chapter. I want to explore the mountains at home more, in a way I haven’t been able to while traveling, training, and competing,” said Deibold. “I still love snowboarding as much as ever, and I’m hoping I can try and give back to the community that has shaped my life. I’m grateful to be working for Protect Our Winters, hoping I can support some of our development riders domestically, and stoked to just be a dad and continue to introduce my daughter to the mountains.”

The U.S. National Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame inducted 18 members from the 2021 and 2022 class, along with one member from 2018 on March 25, 2023 in Big Sky, Montana. Included among the members was Olympic champion Bode Miller, the late Gary Black Jr, who founded Ski Racing magazine, the first American to win an Olympic snowboard medal Shannon Dunn-Downing and famed alpine coach Phil McNichol.

Over 600 people attended the ceremonies and celebrations over the weekend, which featured industry parties, skiing, fashion shows, lectures and more.  

The Hall of Fame process includes more than 400 industry advocates, and the organization announces each class in September. The March event is a celebration that changes locations around the country each year. The 2023 U.S. National Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame induction ceremony is scheduled to be in U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s hometown of Park City, Utah in March 2024.

All inductees are listed below, courtesy of the U.S. National Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame.

CLASS OF 2018

Bode Miller (Franconia, NH)
The most successful male alpine skier in U.S. history, Bode Miller’s resume includes six Olympic medals (including one gold) and five World Championship medals (including four golds), 33 World Cup wins, 79 podiums and two World Cup overall globes. Miller has reached his goal of “skiing as fast as the natural universe will allow.” After retiring in 2017, Miller has launched multiple ski companies and lives in Montana with his wife and children.

CLASS OF 2021

Sven Coomer (Sydney, Australia)
Often regarded as the most prolific and influential boot designer of the modern era, Sven Coomer perfected the work of the plastic pioneers who preceded him. Coomer first made plastic boots perform better with comfort, then established timeless design standards. His achievements include a two-piece, four-buckle overlap design that won hundreds of World Cup events and is still in vogue today, as well as the three-piece cabriolet popular from downhill tracks to terrain parks.

Hermann Kress Dupré (Seven Springs, Pennsylvania)
The son of Bavarian immigrants, Hermann Kress Dupré built Seven Springs into a powerhouse resort and blanketed the world’s slopes with his innovative HKD snowmaking technology, which is in play at an estimated 750 resorts around the world.

John Eaves (Calgary, Alberta)
Multi-talented John ‘Eaveman’ Eaves elevated freestyle skiing, winning 42 titles across all events, then soared as a Bond stuntman, a Bogner star, filmmaker, musician and coach. As one of the most iconic competitors and ski film stars in history, he stunt doubled for Roger Moore’s James Bond in “A View To A Kill” and starred in the Bogner film “Fire and Ice” that helped to attract thousands to the story in America. He is best known as a “godfather of aerials."

Renie & David Gorsuch (Vail, Colorado)
Any skier or rider who has visited the flagship Gorsuch store in the Clocktower building in Vail—or has received the Gorsuch catalog in the mail—or knows this iconic lifestyle retailer offers an experience like no other. Together, Renie and David Gorsuch created a unique style, Vail-based, family-run retail empire founded on mountain elegance. 

Peter Graves (Putney, Vermont)
The man behind the voice: Peter Graves has delivered insight, drama and color on many of the world’s biggest stages in skiing since 1977. Through more than four decades and hundreds of Olympic, World Cup and World Championships events, Peter Graves inimitable voice has become synonymous with skiing.

Mike Hattrup (Ketchum, Idaho)
Mike Hattrup was named to the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team moguls team in 1987. Afterward, Mike skied in numerous ski films, including one of his generation's most important ski movies: Greg Stump’s “Blizzard of AAHHH’s.” Hattrup also helped to develop products from skis and apparel to skins, packs, shovels and probes that allowed a broad swatch of skiers to experience the thrill of big mountains and the backcountry.

Jan Reynolds (Stowe, Vermont)
Crisscrossing the globe to shatter the Glass Summit on record-setting ski adventures, Jan Reynolds now chronicles indigenous cultures as an award-winning photographer and author. Reynolds earned widespread acclaim for fast, light, record-setting high-altitude adventures around the globe, for helping spark the first backcountry explosion on edged cross-country skis and for pioneering corporate sponsorship as the first athlete to be signed by The North Face as a professional skier.

Alan Schoenberger (Park City, Utah)
Mixing skis, dance and technique, Alan Schoenberger defined ski ballet as a World Champion, then innovated indoors for four-plus decades as an unrivaled performer, educator and coach. In 2013, Schoenberger was inducted into the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame. He was the first person, since his idol Alf Engen, to qualify in four of the five categories: as a Ski Pioneer, Ski Sport Innovator, Competitive Skier and Inspirational Skier.

CLASS OF 2022

Gwen Allard (Mendon, Vermont)
A pioneering snow sports educator, Gwen Allard spent a half century focusing on helping others learn how to ski with a particular focus on adaptive. She was one of the first to embrace adaptive education and went on to become a well-respected leader within PSIAA/AASI for her innovative teaching methodology and the ability to effectively communicate it to students and to rally the entire ski industry. She was a key player in the overall recognition of Adaptive as a major discipline.

Tina Basich (Nevada City, California)
A pioneer in slopestyle and big air snowboarding before it was in the Olympics, Tina Basich won X Games and US Open titles, and is acclaimed for leading her sport to the higher levels with public-facing events like Boarding for Breast Cancer, a nonprofit she cofounded with Shannon Dunn. As the first woman to successfully perform a 720 in a competition, she was also a driving force in the creation of women’s-specific snowboards and apparel.

Gary Black (Sun Valley, Idaho)
A lifelong adventurer and newspaperman, Gary Black Jr.’s stewardship of Ski Racing International magazine for over three decades played a pivotal role in the growth of the sport—gaining global respect for his insightful sport coverage and the active role he played with the International Ski Federation. Black was a man of many talents: storyteller, outdoorsman, backpacker, passionate expert skier and top-notch journalist. Black passed away on February 25, 2017.

Shannon Dunn-Downing (Steamboat Springs, CO)
A dominant force in the early days of snowboard competition, Shannon Dunn-Downing won an ISF World Championship title, back-to-back US Open crowns and gold at the first X Games. She was the first American to win an Olympic snowboard medal in the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan. She co-founded the nonprofit Boarding for Breast Cancer with Tina Basich, as well as developed one of the first snowboards designed specifically for women: the Shannon Dunn Pro Model.

Alan “Rusty” Gregory (Mammoth Lakes, California)
A passionate skier growing up in Southern California, Gregory left an NFL career to work at Mammoth Mountain, moving up from a lift worker to ultimately become CEO and an owner. He went on to head up Alterra Mountain Company and played a pivotal role in its early growth and development of the Ikon pass. He was a long-standing board member of the National Ski Areas Association and continues to serve as a trustee of U.S. Ski & Snowboard. He is also on the currently the chair of the Yosemite Conservancy.

Terry Kidwell (Tahoma, California)
Terry Kidwell, a legendary snowboard athlete dubbed the father of freestyle snowboarding, dominated competition before his sport made its Olympic debut, winning four halfpipe and three overall World Championship titles. It is due to many of his own pioneering efforts that the necessary elements of freestyle snowboard competition were created. A photo Tom Sims took during a film session of Terry flying off Soda Spring’s Wine Rock is still the most published photo in snowboard history.

Kent Kreitler (Sun Valley, Idaho)
A pioneer in the progression of his sport, Kent Kreitler is known as one of the most influential athletes in the early days of freeskiing. He was both a successful competitor and a big mountain filmer with over 100 first descents to his credit. He holds multiple freeskiing titles between 1993 and 2000, including X Games, national and world titles, slopestyle titles and prestigious judged awards on film performances. Recently Kreitler was the first inductee into the Teton Gravity Research Hall of Fame.

Phil McNichol (Revelstoke, British Columbia)
A dynamic ski coach, Phil McNichol led the U.S. Ski Team men’s alpine team during one of its most successful period in history, helping boost athletes like Bode Miller, Daron Rahlves, Ted Ligety and others to success on the World Cup, World Championships and Olympics. In his tenure, seven different athletes gained podium or medal finishes, with the men’s team twice finishing second in the Nations Cup standings. McNichol is the creator of the Alpine Rockfest event, going on its fifth year.

CJ Mueller (Breckenridge, Colorado)
One of the dominant Americans in the pioneering days of speed skiing, CJ "Crazy John" Mueller was the first man internationally to eclipse 130 mph on skis and held three world records, won three events and was a top 10 finisher in his sport’s Olympic demonstration event. He capped off his career with a top speed of 137 mph and evolved speed skiing into the competition it is today.

 Park City, UT, March 29, 2023 – U.S. Ski & Snowboard has formally announced the 12 athletes that have been selected to represent the United States at the 2023 Snowboardcross World Junior Championships, which will take place in San Pellegrino, Italy, March 31 - April 2, 2023. 

The 2023 team is composed of strong, young U.S. athletes who are eager to compete on the international level at the capital of snow sports on the Costabella slope at San Pellegrino Pass. 

“Team USA arrived in San Pelligrino FIS Junior World championships with a full roster of top Junior snowboard cross athletes and some rookies to international competition," said U.S. Snowboard Team Snowboardcross Head Coach Rob Fagen. "All are feeling ready and excited and the mindset going into the competition is, ‘You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem.’”

This year, 12 athletes were selected to represent the stars and stripes across the world. Competition will kick off on March 30 with qualifications for both men and women, with finals taking place later in day. Then, on March 31, the teams will band together to compete in the snowboardcross team competition. 

Keep up to date with real-time scoring on the FIS app/website.

2023 Snowboardcross World Junior Championships Athletes

*First Junior World Championships 
club/birthdate

Women

*Bri Schnorrbusch - U.S. Snowboard Team/Gould Academy Competition Program; Maine Mountain Series; 1/30/2006
Madeline Lochte-Bono - International Snowboard Training Center; 1/7/2003
*Sarah Keck - Auburn Ski Club; 5/10/2003
*Virginia Boyd - Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club; 2007
*Tatum Lightner - Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club; 2006
Hanna Percy - Team Palisades Tahoe; 2007

Men

Tyler Hamel - Gould Academy Competition Program; 2007
Nathan Pare - Gould Academy Competition Program; 2/1/2005
*Boden Gerry - Carrabassett Valley Academy; Maine Mountain Series, USASA; 2006
*Mason Hamel - Gould Academy Competition Program; 2006
Walker Overstake -  Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club; 2006
*Blake Broussard - Park City Ski & Snowboard Team; Southeastern Series; N/A

Coaches

Rob Fagan
KC Gandee
Yoshie Yamada.

The last day of the of snowboardcross World Cup took place in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada and the U.S. Snowboard Team's Jake Vedder walked away with his third podium of his career.

Along with Vedder, U.S. men's snowboardcross athletes Alex Deibold, Nick Baumgartner, Senna Leith, Cody Winters, Hagen Kearney and Tyler Hamel competed. All athletes advanced to the 1/8th final in Saturday's qualifying round, where we saw the top Americans Kearney and Leith in eighth and ninth place. Vedder was the next ranked U.S. athlete in 13th place, which made him hungry for a better position the following day.

The snow was coming down throughout the day and the course was placed on hold several times. The athletes at the top of the course were forced to wait out the conditions until a gap in the weather appeared. Eventually, the weather cleared and the men were set to race head-to-head. Vedder had a stellar day racing his fellow competitors down the banks, jumps and turns. 

Starting with the 1/8th final, Vedder qualified to the quarterfinals in first place for his heat. Once again, he was the fastest racer in his quarterfinals heats and advanced as the top qualifier. Semifinals were next on the chopping board and to no one's surprise, Vedder placed first in his heat to move on to the Big Final. As the four final men strapped in and awaited their signal to go, Vedder pumped himself up by shaking out the nerves and giving himself one more clap of the hands. The gates opened and the men were off. Throughout the majority of the race, Vedder was in last. It wasn't until the last jump when Vedder came out of nowhere to secure a very tight second place, shocking his competitors. 

His second place result marks Vedder's third career podium and his second of the season. This result tops off a great end to the season for the rider, as he will now look to use this fuel for the next season to come. 

Results
Men's Results

U.S. Snowboard Team slopestyle rider Dusty Henricksen had a very successful weekend at the FIS Snowobard World Cup in Corvatsch Silvaplana, Switzerland, qualifying for the stacked finals and clinching his first ever coveted FIS Slopestyle Snowboard Crystal Globe. 

During the 2022-23 winter competition season, Henricksen qualified for every single World Cup final on the circuit (six) and landed on three of those podiums in either first or second place. During the Laax Open in Switzerland back in January, Henricksen had a successful day on the slopestyle course by placing second. Shortly following this podium, he made his way back to his hometown of Mammoth Mountain, where he dominated the field and won the whole event. His final podium of the season took place in Calgary, Canada, where he scored another second place. To add to his already decorated World Cup season, Henricksen earned a bronze medal at the Aspen X Games Snowboard Knuckle Huck back in January. 

Leading up to the last event of the season in Silvaplana, Henricksen was sitting in second overall for slopestyle FIS points. After placing seventh in Sunday's slopestyle finals, he was able to advance into that top overall spot with a 110-point lead. On top of earning the Crystal Globe today, Henricksen also secured a second place title as the overall park and pipe leader. 

Teammate Jake Canter also had a successful day today in Silvaplana. He qualified into the finals as the top American and held onto that title, placing just above Henricksen in sixth place. The overall conditions for finals could not have been any better with blue skies, no breeze and a pristine course. After falling on his first finals run, Canter strapped back in and headed to the top of the course where he took a big, deep breath before dropping in for his second attempt. After lacing his run from top to bottom, Canter received a score of a 73.50 to land him in sixth. 

Today marked the final competition of the 2022-23 slopestyle World Cup circuit. With much success throughout the whole entire season, Henricksen and Canter's showing today placed the cherry on top. All of the U.S. Snowboard Team athletes are fired up for another great 2023-24 season to come. 

Results 

Men's Results

Crystal Globe 

Men's Results 

On a beautiful day in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada, six U.S snowboardcross athletes competed in their second to last race of the season with Lindsey Jacobellis securing her 59th career podium.

Conditions were overcast, but it made for very fast snow conditions for the racers. During the women's qualifications just the day before, Jacobellis, Faye Gulini, and Stacey Gaskill each raced their hearts out in order to make the quarterfinals Saturday. Both Jacobellis and Gulini advanced to the semifinals as the top two athletes in their heats. Jacobellis then ranked first in the semifinals and advanced to compete in the big final against Gulini, who placed second in her heat. The big final saw Jacobellis securing another third place finish to add as her 59th career podium.

Jacobellis is the most decorated women's snowboardcross athlete to ever do it and will look to see if she can make her 60th World Cup podium Sunday in Canada. Gulini was just off the podium in fourth place with a time of 1:03.00, 0.69 seconds behind Jacobellis. Gaskill did not advance to the semifinals and settled with a 12th place. 

On the men's side, three American men advanced into the 1/8th final from qualifiers the day before. After qualifying into the quarterfinals in second place in his heat, Senna Leith was unable to advance into the semifinals. Leith's day ended with another top 10 finish in ninth place. Fellow teammate Jake Vedder also advanced to the quarterfinal after finishing second in his heat, but did not qualify further, which placed him in 13th overall.

The top American finisher for the day was Hagen Kearney who had a stellar day, advancing as the top finisher in both the 1/8th and quarterfinal. However, when it came down to the semifinals, Kearney accidentally took the wrong line on one of the banks which set him back into last place. As it may not have been the results he wanted, he was still able to secure another top 10 finish in eighth place. 

The U.S Snowboard Team snowboardcross racers will look to finish off their competition season with another race tomorrow in Mont-Sainte-Anne. 

Results

Men's Results

Women's Results