Angel Collinson
Freeride
The daughter of the ski patrol director at Utah’s Snowbird ski area, Angel Collinson grew up in employee housing at the base of the mountain, becoming a skier not long after she learned to walk. As kids, she and her parents and her younger brother, fellow pro skier Johnny Collinson, would spend summers living out of their family’s van and climbing peaks all over the western United States.
An elite ski racer through her teens, Collinson gave up racing at age 19 and started entering big-mountain freeskiing contests, all while studying environmental law at the University of Utah. In her first year on the Freeskiing World Tour, in 2010, she won the overall title as a rookie, which she claimed again the following year. By 2013, she’d transitioned to filming, with a breakout part in Teton Gravity Research’s annual ski movie. Now a regular star athlete in TGR’s films, Collinson’s claimed many awards for her film parts, including become the first female in history to win Best Line at the Powder Video Awards for the footage of her slashing a steep spine in Alaska.
Datos informativos
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 13.07.1990
- Nacionalidad
- United States
- Lugar habitual de esquí
- Alta and Snowbird
- Lema
- Take over the world with kindness!
- Disciplinas
- Big Mountain Skiing
- Hobbies
- Singing, slingshots, listening to music, waking up for full moons!
- Website
- acollinson.com
Mejores resultados
2 time winner Best Female Performance- Powder Magazine Awards
2 time winner Powder Readers poll;
First female to win Best Line, Powder Magazine Awards.
2 time overall winner of the Freeskiing World Tour
Interview
- 1. Esquís Völkl favoritos
- Confession
- 2. ¿Para qué utilizas este esquí?
- Big Mountain, fast hard charging riding
- 3. ¿Por qué te gusta este esquí?
- It's stable, fast, wide enough to cruise on powder but versatile and mobile enough to ski really well when conditions are variable, hard, or bumpy.
- 4. ¿Por qué te gustaría formar parte del equipo de Völkl?
- It's an honor to be a part of a team that has so many heavy hitters getting to do team trips with some of the best riders from all different continents is probably my favorite part.
- 5. ¿Hace cuanto tiempo que esquías con Völkl?
- Since 2016