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My name is Stian and I’m a 14-year-old slopestyle snowboarder from Whitehorse, Yukon. I fell in love with snowboarding at 8 years old when my parents got me a snowboard for Christmas.
I love slopestyle, which is the discipline where you do tricks on rails and jumps. I like that you have to be able to spin in multiple directions and have a big variety of tricks to do well. I enjoy riding different terrain parks and figuring out how to perform on each new feature.
In 2023, I placed 5th in slopestyle at the Canada Winter Games, even though I was 13 years old in the U18 category. In 2024, I won two BC provincials titles in U15 and medalled at junior nationals in U15. I won all four gold medals in the U16 snowboarding events at the 2024 Arctic Winter Games in Alaska.
When I’m older, I want to be a professional snowboarder and make the Canadian National Team. I would like to win a World Cup slopestyle event. For now, I am focused on learning more difficult tricks and riding bigger features. Outside of snowboarding season, I love to skateboard and mountain bike. I like these sports because I can learn new tricks and ride new features. But snowboarding is my favourite sport.
Please consider supporting me so that I can travel outside the Yukon to train and compete with other high calibre athletes. Thank you for helping me follow my dream of snowboarding for Canada.