After growing up and learning to ride in Switzerland, Alex Hall returned to the United States — his country of birth — a few years ago to live in Park City and train with the U.S. national team. The up-and-comer is now a contender for the 2018 U.S. Olympic slopestyle team.

Hall is a Youth Olympic silver medalist, the first skier to land a switch triple cork 1800, and the AFP’s No. 4 ranked slopestyle skier for the 2016/17 season.