Created: 18 April 2019
Congratulations to the the recipients of the the USASA National Championships Grant. These members were awarded grants based on their commitment to the core values of USASA and outstanding community service. All were recently announced at the 2019 USASA National Championships and have been notified via email. If you did not receive your grant yet please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to receive your grant by June 1, 2019. After this dated the grant will be forfeited back to the NCG fund.
Created: 17 April 2019
The 2019 National Championships are a wrap and we want you to enjoy all the memories with free photos from National Championships. You can download high-resolution photos with or without logos on it at Vastaction.com.
Finding photos is easy just enter the portion of the site labeled USASA National Championships, pick your week - snowboard or ski - and you can search by group, day, bib number or name to find all your images. Create an account and add the photos you love to favorites. From favorites you can download all your photos in highresolution without watermarks + logos.
Created: 10 April 2019
Eleven jam-packed days of snowboard and freeski action came to a snowy conclusion on Wednesday at Colorado’s Copper Mountain Resort, as a hugely-successful 2019 USASA National Championships closed out with the final freeski halfpipe, slopestyle, and ski cross competitions despite a deep low pressure system bringing a heavy dose of April snow to the Rockies.
Created: 09 April 2019
Despite warnings of a massive snowstorm bearing down on the Rockies and the Midwest for Wednesday, Tuesday was another perfect spring day at Copper Mountain Resort, and the final Open Class competition of the 2019 USASA National Freeski Championships. The day went down with warm temperatures, sunny skies, and a perfect jump greeting riders at the first-ever USASA/US Ski and Snowboard big air competition
Created: 08 April 2019
Day two of freeski week competition at the 2019 USASA National Championships went down in a big way on Monday, with three of the four groups in action and the Open class riders taking to the pro line of Copper Mountain’s terrain park for slopestyle competition, where Riley Jacobs and Emerson Lawton claimed this season’s titles in a heavy-hitting event.
Created: 07 April 2019
Sunday was a big day at the 2019 USASA National Championships, as the first full slate of competition at ski week got underway under perfect blue skies and balmy temperatures, and the the top men and women of halfpipe and ski cross competed in the Open class competitions at Colorado’s Copper Mountain Resort.
The Copper pipe was once again perfectly cut on Sunday as the 32 men and 12 women dropped in for competition. And though the warm temps made for a little slush in the flat bottom, the expert slip crew on hand kept things running well from qualifications right through to finals, where Hanna Faulhaber and Matt LaBaugh elevated their riding to take the respective women’s and men’s 2019 Nationals titles.
Created: 07 April 2019
Representing the Southwest Freeride Series and coming out of the small town of Penasco, NM, Balsamo spends her time off the slopes riding rodeo. On Saturday, however, she was busy riding the rails, stomping tricks across a majority of the rail jam features, including an incredible double switch up front-to-front on the quad kink that also earned her “Best Trick of the Night” honours.
“I had a ton of fun tonight,” the 16-year-old Balsamo smiled after awards, “It was a blast. I’ve won Nationals before, but this is my first time winning open class and I’m just really excited.”
