Katie Tsuyuki – 138 Transition and 145 Phoenix

Katie Tsuyuki made her Olympic debut at Sochi 2014, where she missed a spot in the final by one place, finishing as top Canadian female halfpiper in 13th place overall, best Canadian out of both genders.

Tsuyuki had made her World Cup debut in December 2005 in Whistler. She would record her best World Cup result in January 2010, finishing ninth in Stoneham, Quebec. Just a couple of weeks later, she was at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, not as a competitor, but as a forerunner for the halfpipe competition.

Katie is a four-time medallist at the Canadian championships, including her gold medal run in 2006. She debuted at the 2013 FIS World Championships where she finished 15th

Katie is a five-time medalist at the Canadian championships, including her gold medal runs in 2006 and 2017. She debuted at the 2013 FIS World Championships where she finished 15th.

Katie is qualifying for Korea 2018 which will take her to New Zealand, America, China and Switzerland all with the intentions of competing at the PyeongChang Olympics.

Everett McEwan – REV

Everett has been snowboarding since the early days of the late 80s, and competed in his first race in 1988. Despite his early start, instead of racing professionally he went off to college and had a career in TV news for 17 years. But over the years he kept at it as a part-time amateur including winning age class USASA US nationals seven times in alpine (GS and SL). Everett also was a snowboard coach in the late 90s at Stratton Mountain, Vermont where he coached the famous Lindsey Jacobellis and then went onto to found the Ski Round Top snowboard race program before moving to Colorado. The year Everett turned 40, he left his job in TV news to be a stay at home dad and start a business in video production. He also decided to give Pro racing a chance. He jokes that it’s his “midlife crisis” to race against people half his age and to beat a lot of them. He has consistently made finals at the NorAm Race to the Cup and has gone from top 16 to top 10 and even the top five. He also has climbed the podium in smaller pro races in Canada, including winning the Ontario provincial championships in PSL. As well as providing video production and marketing work for Donek Snowboards, Everett is also test rider helping with development of Alpine/Race Snowboards and plates. He is also a member of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, the top US team and helps with promoting the sport of racing on behalf of the club through video.

Holly Crawford – 158 Custom Shape

This three-time halfpipe Olympian from Australia is known for going massive and for her technical abilities. Holly Crawford has stood on the podium at many World Cup and World Championship events and you can expect she is going to impress at PyeongChang this February. Holly rides a custom directional twin tip shape in the halfpipe you can’t miss her signature shape. Make sure you follow her Instagram as she makes her way to the Games.

Follow Holly @hollyskorea

Jack Lee – 157 Park Twin

Using his competitive diving background Jack is taking the slopestyle scene by storm. You can catch him flying over the jumps at Breckenridge. It was a backflip that made Jack fall in love with snowboarding and sparked his journey to the Olympics. Inspired by passion of legend Jeremy Jones Jack uses each slam to get motivated to stay on his feet and push his limits. Disc golf, hut tubbing and 10-meter platform diving are other hobbies he enjoys. This season Jack will be working on his can and switch back double 1080 and front and back 1260’s with the aim of crushing the RevTour stops and beyond.

Follow Jack @jack_p_Lee

Livia Molodyh

Senna Leith

Senna Leith is a member of the US National Snowboard Team and competes full-time on the FIS World Cup Tour for Snowboard-Cross. Senna moved to the World Cup after winning the North American Cup overall title in 2017. In his debut year on the World Cup circuit, he landed himself on his first World Cup podium in a team-event in Moscow, Russia. With multiple top-10 finishes on the World Cup circuit in his first two years on tour, Senna has established himself as one of the top up-and-coming athletes in the world for the sport of Snowboard-Cross.

Follow Senna http://www.sennaleith.com/

Anna Miller

Stacy Gaskill

Evan Strong -150 Saber and 158 Phoenix

Evan Strong captured the gold medal and led a U.S. podium sweep in the Paralympic debut of men’s snowboardcross at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Evan is the 2012 Para Snowboard Cross World Champion, and 2013 US National Champion.

Mike Shea – Saber SRT

Mike captured the Silver Medal at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Teammates Mike and Evan seem to pass the top paralympic BX spot in the world back and forth. Mike is responsible for the development of our Baker banked slalom model, which he has taken to multiple World cup podiums.

Amy Purdy

Is there anything this woman can’t do? She’s a Paralympic bronze medallist, has placed in multiple world cups, was runner up on Dancing with the Stars (season 18). She also co-founded her own non-profit organization, Adaptive Action Sports, and is an amazing motivational speaker. When Amy first approached us a few years ago and said I’m a double amputee and I race boardercross, we had to wiggle our finger in our ear to confirm we heard her right. Amy has had a profound affect on the direction Donek Snowboards has taken just with that one little phone call. Because of her inspiration and impact on the sport of adaptive snowboarding, Donek builds boards for a large percentage US adaptive snowboarders and benefits from their innovative nature. We are very proud to work with her.

Mike Minor – 162 Saber BX

Follow Mike @gnarlynubby

Macauley Kilmer

Max Gordon

Ryan Knapton – 162 Knapton

Riding since 1989 and hailing from Breckenridge, this Colorado native is on his pro model, the Knapton Twin. He loves all the resorts in Colorado for the bigger mountains and darn good snow in general. Other than Breckenridge, he has had some of the most fun at Beaver Creek and the various Aspen Mountains because of how empty they compared to Breck / Vail / Keystone. Although he hasn’t been back in over 15 years, Ryan also has mad love for Buck Hill and Hyland Hills in Minnesota with very tiny little hills (less than 200 vertical feet). He has so many great memories growing up riding those tow-ropes next to a small park / pipe and just loving doing that all night every night after school. Nowadays his ‘discipline’ is just cruising around the entire mountain and playing around with whatever seems fun to do that day.

When asked about his Knapton Twin he said – “Twin with my own specs… stiffer cuz I’m a heavier rider, wider so I can turn extra hard without ‘booting out’, larger sidecut radius for bigger turns, offset inserts cuz of the width so my bindings are centered on it better than what ‘center’ is with burton bindings, custom base die cut graphics, extra inserts on my newest board towards the tail so I can set it back on pow days (haven’t gotten to try this feature yet on the new board). I DO NOT recommend my exact specs for most anyone! But that’s what’s rad about Donek Snowboards and their specialization in customizing boards… you can get specs that are actually good for you and how you ride, rather than having to settle like with most company’s boards which basically takes a primitive ‘one size fits all’ approach.”

Fun fact…Ryan used to be one of the fastest Rubiks Cube solvers in the world (top 20). Now I play foosball and have won tons of events including Amateur Singles at Worlds and a second in Pro Doubles at Worlds.

His shout outs are to All his MN and CO shred bros. Extra thanks to his YouTube subscribers who leave mad nice feedback for his vids and extra thanks to those who point the camera at Ryan so he can make the vids, especially his girlfriend Kristin and his homie Nate Dogggg.

Follow Ryan
www.youtube.com/rknapton3 www.instagram.com/ryan_knapton/ www.facebook.com/Ryan-Knapton-1527305297533563/

Giri Watts – 162 Park Twin

This always smiling uber talented powder hound is the head of ski and ride at Copper Mountain. Giri has many years of experience and is one of our top freestyle and freeride board testers. His clean technique and creative eye for the lay of the land makes Giri stand out amongst the rest. Give him a high five when you see him, he’s a gem!

Follow Giri @giri_watts

Crispin Lipscomb 155 Transition and Park Twin

Want to know a guy who can ride it all? It’s Crispin. Two time halfpipe Olympian, backcountry specialist and current coach of the British Columbia snowboard team, this guy has grace and power. Crispin specializes in making snowboarding look easy and can teach that way too. He is husband to our artist Raffaella and they hold down a place called Area C, a jump, rail and skills improvement camp off the back of Silver Star and you can join them at anytime. Email Crispin for more information on attending his specialty camps. Crispin360@yahoo.com

Abby Benser

Hometown: Duluth, MN

Home mountain: Spirit Mountain and Mont Du Lac Favourite Discipline: Boarder X

The Donek you ride: Boarder X- 154 SRT and 152 Saber Alpine: 151 Secret

How to follow and know more about me: Follow me on Instagram @abby_benser and Facebook @Abby Benser

Shout Outs: Shout out to my mom for telling me to snowboard and shout out to my coaches for always believing in me

Ashton Grogg

Hometown: Woodland Hills Utah

Home mountain: Park City Mountain Resort

Favourite Discipline: GS and Slalom

The Donek you ride: 180 secret and 162 saber

How to follow and know more about me: insta @ashton_snowboard , facebook page. @ashtonsnowboard

Shout Outs: my dad Aries Grogg

Anika Juneau

130 Saber

Follow Anika: www.anikajuneau.com /
Facebook @anikaJuneau
Instagram @anikaJuneau /
YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UCl7nZ_2OjTdt3ur7qATg1Rg

Caiden Quick

Carlie Capela

Devrett Gupta

Aaron (AJ) George

Garret Capela

Ethan Deters

Riding Since:  2007

The Donek you ride (or will ordering):  Secret Saber BX

Board Size: 164

Regular or goofy: goofy

Favorite Discipline (BX, SS, SL, HP, GS): BX

Hometown: Hermantown, MN

Home Mountain:  Spirit Mountain

Most memorable moment on your board: When I went from last to first on the first turn and finished with 3 seconds between me and everyone else during a BX race at Afton Alps.

Season riding goal:  Make top 20 at Nationals.

Long term riding goal: BX rider representing USA in the Olympics.

Biggest inspiration: JJ Watt, “Start with the big goal and work backwards from there until you reach today. And what you can do today to improve and get yourself closer to your dreams are accomplished by setting and achieving many small goals along the way.

Best piece of advice: Work hard at a goal you have set until you make your goal and then set a higher goal and never give up even if you don’t think you can make it.

Other hobbies: Baritone Saxophone, Football, Working Out, Camping, Rowing. Volunteering with the commemorative Air Force, and flying

Shout outs: Mom, Dad, Brother (Parker), Laurie and Jim Gerken, My grandparents

Instagram: @mn_afterburner 

Justin Varner

Kelsi Stephenson

Lexi Bullis

Nathan Bautista

Griffin Kleinle

Carver Bowlby

Riding Since: 2001

The Donek you ride: Riding the proteus now, ordering a rev and pulse soon. 

Board Size: 175

Regular or goofy: Regular 

Favorite Discipline (BX, SS, SL, HP, GS): GS&SL

Hometown: Somerset PA

Home Mountain:  7SPRINGS 

Most memorable moment on your board: The first time I got cheered at from the chair lift for carving the mountain. 

Season riding goal: To go to more Noram and FIS races, and to nationals with USASA. 

Long term riding goal: Just to keep the sport fun, and to go as far as I can with racing.  

Biggest inspiration: My father, he taught me how to ride. 

Best piece of advice: Give 100% at everything you do, and there’s no friends on a powder day. 

Other hobbies: hiking, biking, kayaking, dirt bike riding, and motorcycle riding. 

Shout outs: My dad for teaching me how to ride and always being there for me. Julia for pushing me to get into racing. Heidi Lewis for getting such awesome pictures at 7Springs. Shannon for giving me all the love and support I could ever ask for. Srrc for pointing me in the right direction with racing, Donek snowboards for excepting me on the team, and Clawson Snowboarding Crew. Thank you!!

Instagram:carverbowlby 

Snapchat Carverbowlby 

Sumner Orr

Wesley Wolkowinsky

Aten-Wa Theba

Dennis Duran

Tyler Guenter

Lindsay Young

Bryan Meyung

Drew Moryn

Kayla Ripper

Sydney Wilson

Hannah Gong

Dave White Jr

Bennett Schneider

Levi Decareau