SKI LifeProof Men’s SuperPipe Torin Yater-Wallace (Aspen, Colorado, USA) One of the most talented SuperPipe skiers the discipline has seen, Torin Yater-Wallace returns to X Games Aspen in 2017 after taking home a gold medal at X Games Oslo for SuperPipe. Yater-Wallace is known for garnering four X Games medals, including gold, by age 18. He missed X Games Aspen 2015 due to injury, but returned in 2016 to compete in his hometown for his seventh X Games appearance. Yater-Wallace began skiing at age one in the Powder Panda’s program in Aspen, joined the Aspen Valley Ski Club freestyle team at seven years old, and was the second youngest winter athlete to medal at X Games at 15 years old. Women’s SuperPipe Cassie Sharpe (Comox, British Columbia, Canada) After making her debut at X Games Aspen in 2016, Sharpe returns to Aspen in 2017 with a Ski SuperPipe gold medal from a booming victory at X Games Oslo. Known for her big cork 900 and back-to- back flairs, she seeks to defend her title in Ski SuperPipe. Sharpe began her career on the Mount Washington Freestyle Ski Team and was always passionate about freestyle skiing, but began her career in mogul skiing. In 2012, she changed her focus to SuperPipe after winning a North Face Park and Pipe event. Sharpe’s brother, Darcy, also made his X Games debut at Aspen in 2016, competing in both Snowboard Slopestyle and Big Air. Jeep Men’s Slopestyle Jossi Wells (Wanaka, New Zealand) A five-time X Games medalist from three different disciplines, Jossi is known as one of the most versatile skiers on the planet. In both 2012 and 2013 he competed in all three freestyle ski disciplines at X Games Aspen – SlopeStyle, SuperPipe, and Big Air. Wells won his first X Games gold medal in 2016 for his SlopeStyle performance, marking him as the first athlete from New Zealand to win at X Games. Part of the skiing Wells clan, his brothers Beau-James and Byron have also competed in X Games. Wells was on skis at age of two and began traveling internationally at age 13 when he went to Italy to begin training. Women’s Big Air and Jeep Slopestyle Kelly Sildaru (Tallinn, Estonia) Kelly Sildaru seeks to defend her gold medal in Ski Slopestyle, which she won at X Games Aspen in 2016 at just 13 years old. She logged the highest score of the competition during her first run (93.00) and it held up as former X Games and Olympic gold medalists made pass after pass. By winning gold she became the youngest gold medalist ever at a winter event, topping the record set by Chloe Kim in 2015. Now 14, Sildaru is the second youngest gold medalist in X Games history behind Ryan Sheckler at 13, and is also the first Estonian X Games medalist. Continuing her success this season, Sildaru won the North American season opening Dew Tour Ski Slopestyle event. SNOWBOARD The Real Cost Men’s SuperPipe Ayumu Hirano (Murakami, Japan) As a 14-year-old, Hirano stormed onto the competitive halfpipe scene in 2013 and earned silver at X Games Aspen, becoming the youngest athlete at the time to earn an X Games medal at a winter event. The young phenom then went on to earn Olympic silver at Sochi in 2014 and continue to nail down podium finishes around the world. Hirano took home gold in SuperPipe in 2016 at X Games Oslo, where he landed the only cab double cork 1440 of the competition. After earning his medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics, he became a national sensation, appearing on nearly every talk show, network and news outlet in Japan. The Real Cost Women’s SuperPipe Chloe Kim (Torrance, California, USA) Front and center in women’s snowboarding, Kim is on the path to winning her fourth consecutive X Games gold medal after Aspen in 2015 and 2016 and Oslo in 2016. She earned her first X Games medal at age 13 and is the only X Games athlete ever to win three gold medals before age 16. Hailing from the Los Angeles area, Kim spent two years in Switzerland when she was 10 years old, training with a small snowboard team. Kim and her family make the weekly trek to Mammoth Mountain, Calif. during the year, nearly a 650-mile round trip journey, where she is a member of the U.S. Snowboard halfpipe team. A trilingual, first-generation American, Kim has twice been named one of TIME Magazine’s “30 Most Influential Teens.” Jeep Men’s Slopestyle and America’s NAVY Men’s Big Air Mark McMorris (Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) Mark McMorris has been one of snowboarding's leading men since taking gold in Slopestyle and Big Air in 2012. He repeated the feat in 2015, becoming the second snowboarder in history to earn double gold at a single event. McMorris spun back-to-back triple cork 1440s at Aspen in 2016 to secure the win, securing his fourth Aspen Slopestyle gold. He boasts 11 X Games medals and will compete in both Snowboard Slopestyle and Big Air in 2017. In November 2016, McMorris released The Process on ABC as part of the World of X Games series – an in-depth look at his career, which tracks his competitive snowboarding season following an injury to his femur. This season, McMorris has already earned a third place finish at the FIS Milan Big Air event, won the FIS Alpensia Big Air event and won the both the Dew Tour Slopestyle and team competitions. Jeep Women’s Slopestyle Hailey Langland (San Clemente, California, USA) Hailey is the up-and-coming face of American slopestyle snowboarding. A member of the U.S. Pro Slopestyle team, Hailey scored her first major win at the Mammoth stop of the U.S. Grand Prix in 2015. She then earned a bronze finish at Dew Tour Breckenridge in December 2015 and a bronze at her X Games Aspen debut in 2016, firmly cementing her name amongst the world's elite at just 15 years of age. She's hard at work being homeschooled while traveling the world to snowboard and still trying to spend some time at home on the beach in San Clemente, Calif. This season, Langland has a second place finish at the FIS Milan Big Air event, fourth place at the FIS Alpensia Big Air event and took home second place in the Dew Tour Slopestyle competition. America’s NAVY Men’s Big Air and Jeep Men’s Slopestyle Yuki Kadono (Tokyo, Japan) Yuki Kadono has a taste for winning after topping the inaugural Air + Style Los Angeles Big Air event in February 2015 and taking the Burton U.S. Open Slopestyle crown in March 2015. At X Games Aspen 2016, he managed to fight off a bad case of the flu to take Big Air bronze with a backside triple cork 1620 indy and a frontside triple cork 1440 mute despite breaking two snowboards during the competition. Most recently, Kadono took gold in Big Air at X Games Oslo with a backside triple cork 1620. Kadono is a favorite at X Games Aspen 2017 in both Snowboard Big Air and Slopestyle. Women’s Big Air Cheryl Maas (Oslo, Norway) An accomplished snowboarder with some of the best style in the game, Maas was the first woman to land a 900 in Slopestyle competition and continues to push the sport with big spins and stylish rails. The 31- year-old learned to snowboard on the dry slopes of the Netherlands. Maas most recently won her first X Games gold medal in Oslo for Big Air. She is known for her no-nonsense attitude and has competed twice in the Olympics: Halfpipe in 2006 (11th) and Slopestyle in 2014 (20th). Cheryl is married to X Games gold medalist Stine Brun Kjeldaas and when not snowboarding around the globe, she is a busy mom to their two daughters, Lara and Mila. SNOWMOBILE & SNOW BIKE SnoCross Tucker Hibbert (Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, USA) The most dominant and decorated SnoCross rider of all time with 120 National SnoCross wins, ten National titles and two FIM World Snowcross titles, Hibbert will look to earn the first ever ten-peat in an X Games winter event history. He made history at X Games Aspen 2015 when he became the oldest gold medalist in SnoCross at age 30 1/2, collecting his eighth straight X Games SnoCross win. Hibbert is tied with BMX Vert rider Jamie Bestwick for most consecutive X Games wins, and seeks to take the lead in 2017. SnoCross Adaptive Mike Schultz (St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA) With eight total X Games medals, Schultz is the first athlete to win gold in different sports in both the winter and summer versions of X Games with five consecutive SnoCross Adaptive gold medals in Aspen, and Moto X Racing Adaptive gold medals earned in the summer event from 2010 and 2013. He continued to showcase his versatility at X Games Aspen 2015 when he added the inaugural Snowboarder X Adaptive to his resumé. Beginning his snowmobile career as an able-bodied rider, Schultz competed in five X Games Snowmobile SnoCross events before losing his left leg. Wanting to compete again, Schultz founded BioDapt, which manufactures artificial knees and feet compatible with amputees’ active lifestyles. Monster Energy Freestyle Joe Parsons (Yakima, Washington, USA) The most decorated snowmobiler in X Games history, Parsons also has the second-most X Games winter event medals in history.