The U.S. Olympic snowboarding roster won’t be fully determined until January 2026, but two athletes already have clinched their spots on the team for Milan Cortina. Ultimately, the roster will include up to 13 men and 13 women across all disciplines.
In snowboarding, athletes don’t qualify directly for the Winter Olympics. Instead, they earn quota spots for their countries, and it’s up to each country to name athletes to its Olympic roster to fill those quota spots. U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s selection criteria has broken the selection process into two distinct phases.
At the conclusion of the 2024-25 season, one athlete per event could clinch an Olympic spot by finishing in the top three of either the World Snowboard Points List (halfpipe, slopestyle) or the 2026 FIS Base List (snowboard cross, parallel giant slalom). Two athletes (Chloe Kim, Red Gerard) met that criteria.
The rest of the spots will be filled over the course of the 2025-26 season, with designated selection events being used as the primary way that athletes earn nominations to the team. For more details on the selection process, check out our article on Olympic snowboarding qualification.
Meet the members of the 2026 U.S. Olympic snowboard team (so far) below.
Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe
Chloe Kim
Although she’s only 25 years old, Kim has dominated women’s halfpipe for the last decade. She took a two-year break from competition after the last Winter Olympics but quickly returned to form and re-established herself as the rider to beat heading into Milan Cortina.
In January 2024, she became the first woman to land a 1260 in a halfpipe contest. A year later, she joined teammate Maddie Mastro in becoming the first women to land double cork 1080s. According to her coach, Kim has landed a 1440 in practice before, but she has yet to attempt that trick in a competition.
Kim recently won her eighth X Games superpipe title, tying Shaun White’s record. At Milan Cortina, she’ll have the chance to do something that not even White has done: win a third consecutive Olympic halfpipe gold medal.
Men’s Snowboard Slopestyle/Big Air
Red Gerard
In 2018, Gerard became snowboarding’s youngest-ever Olympic champion at 17 years old when he won a surprise gold in men’s slopestyle. After finishing fourth in 2022, he’ll look to return to the podium at Milan Cortina.
The Silverthorne, Colorado, native secured his first X Games slopestyle gold medal in 2024 and then defended his title a year later with a run that included a switch backside triple cork 1620 and a backside 1800.
Although he doesn’t enter big air contests as often, Gerard has fared well in that event with back-to-back fifth-place finishes at the last two Winter Olympics.
How will the rest of the U.S. Olympic snowboard team be decided?
Selection events represent the primary way for athletes to make Team USA. Up to three riders per event will be named to the team based on their best individual results at one of these selection events. The remaining criteria is covered in our Olympic snowboarding qualification article.
Each discipline has its own set of selection events, which are listed below. Most of these events will take place during the 2025-26 season, but some occurred last season.
The full team will be finalized after the Olympic qualifying period concludes on Jan. 18, 2026.
The dates below are based on the provisional 2025-26 World Cup calendar and could change when the final schedule is announced.
Snowboard Halfpipe
- Dec. 17-19, 2025: Copper (USA) World Cup
- Jan. 7-10, 2026: Aspen (USA) World Cup
- Jan. 15-18, 2026: Laax (SUI) World Cup
Snowboard Slopestyle/Big Air
- Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2025: Aspen (USA) World Cup – Slopestyle
- Dec. 11-13, 2025: Steamboat (USA) World Cup – Big Air
- Jan. 7-10, 2026: Aspen (USA) World Cup – Slopestyle
- Jan. 15-18, 2026: Laax (SUI) World Cup – Slopestyle
Snowboard Cross
- Apr. 5, 2025: Mt. St. Anne (CAN) World Cup
- Apr. 6, 2025: Mt. St. Anne (CAN) World Cup
- All individual FIS World Cup events in the 2025-26 season through Jan. 18, 2026
Parallel Giant Slalom
- All individual FIS World Cup events in the 2025-26 season through Jan. 18, 2026
- Only parallel giant slalom events will count; parallel slalom events will not
How does Olympic snowboard qualifying work?
Learn more about the qualification process for Milan Cortina 2026, as well as the selection criteria for Team USA.