Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include results from the final day of competition on Thursday, April 4.

Over the last six days, youth snowboarders from across the country have flocked to Copper Mountain Resort in order to compete in United States of America Freeski and Snowboard Association 2024 National Championships.

With the first week of competition from Saturday, March 30, to Thursday, April 4, being coined as “snowboard week,” athletes have performed in rail jams, raced down boardercross courses and flown high in the halfpipe or on the slopestyle course.  

Numerous talented Summit County-based riders used the home-crowd energy to vie for sports at the top of the results.

Frisco’s Evan Wrobel spearheaded the competition on Saturday, taking second in the snowboard open class men’s rail jam competition. Winter Park’s Will Solomon took first, while Leadville’s Luke Leal finished in 17th place. 

The snowboard halfpipe competitions got underway on Sunday, March 31, giving way to several impressive finishes from Summit’s next potential crop of U.S. snowboard team riders.

Keystone’s Kayley Warren began her grueling slate of national competition events with the snowboard ruggie girls halfpipe competition. Ruggie is the division for 7- to 8-years-olds. Warren recorded a score of 50.75 on her second run of the day, which was enough for her to take fifth overall.

Warren then returned to the mountain on Monday, where she secured a fifth-place finish in the girls slopestyle competition. Warren scored 76 on her first run, which ranked behind Páz Victoria Rodriguez’s score of 97.

Now done with the park and pipe contests, Warren turned her focus to the ruggie girls snowboard giant slalom and slalom. Warren dominated in the giant slalom on Tuesday, notching a time of 1 minute, 22.89 seconds to beat out second place by close to 10 seconds.

With yesterday’s victory providing momentum, Warren captured a second gold medal in the slalom competition, clocking a time of 1:05.83.

In the boys ruggie division, three Summit residents competed in the snowboard halfpipe competition with Team Summit’s Brolin Voegtle placing 13th overall with a best-run score of 42.25. Team Summit teammates Leif Dayton followed in 14th (38.25) and Hayden Krill took 24th (15.75).

Moving up to the snowboard grommet girls division, which is for 9- to 10-years-olds, Silverthorne’s Sammie S. Nick and Alessandra Frederick led the way, claiming the first two spots among the field of 21 athletes in the halfpipe competition.

Frederick secured the top-run score after the first round with a score of 84.50, but the impressive score was topped by Nick, who hucked herself to a score of 88.75 to win the gold medal. Frederick won the silver medal while Grand County’s Paizley White took home the bronze (82.25). Additionally, Breckenridge residents Tesla Goldstein placed 10th (52.75) and Marette Royer took 20th (27).

“It was good,” Frederick said. “I did a back 540, and back-to-back 360’s in the halfpipe.”

Nick and Frederick returned for the grommet girls slopestyle competition, and the duo once again placed at the very top of the podium. With a score of 95, Nick won another national gold medal while Frederick followed in second with a score of 88.

Frederick also took eighth in the slalom with a time of 1:10.09 and seventh in the giant slalom with a time of 1:28.35 seconds.

Summit Action Sports athlete and Silverthorne resident Rhys Miller took second in the grommet boys halfpipe competition, scoring 83.25 to trail Ryan Zhang in first with a score of 88.

Breckenridge’s Ellis Cichocki placed fifth (64.75), Team Summit’s James Dayton finished in sixth (62.25) and Jackson Krill placed 24th (34.25). 

Miller topped Zhang in the grommet boys slopestyle competition, earning a score of 91.33 to Zhang’s second-place score of 87.33. Dayton placed fifth with a score of 80.

The snowboard breaker division, which is for 13- to 14-years-olds, was led by Leadville’s Declan Voegtle who placed third overall in the boys halfpipe with a score of 71.25.

Copper Mountain’s Giada Brienza earned two medals in the girls breaker park and pipe competitions. Brienza won a silver medal in the halfpipe with a score of 96.75 and then took bronze in slopestyle. Brienza concluded the competition by taking first in the small final of the girls breaker boardercross competition. 

The national snowboard competition officially wrapped up on Thursday, April 4, with Summit’s Lily Dhawornvej, Caleb Dhawornvej, Will Solomon and Penelope Brienza finishing within the top 10 in their respective events.

Lily Dhawornvej took first in the girls slopestyle open class, Solomon took third in boys slopestyle open class, Caleb Dhawornvej took sixth in boys slopestyle open class and Brienza finished fourth in the the girls 11-12-year-old superpipe.

Snowboarders will now leave the slopes of Copper in order to allow USASA’s 2024 National Championships “freeski week” to begin on Saturday, April 6. The competition will last through Wednesday, April 10. 

For a full list of results from snowboard week, visit USASA.com.

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