Squaw Valley Freestyle’s Ali Kariotis started dreaming of making the U.S. Ski Team at the age of ten. It only took her six years to get there thanks to a solid 2011 season on the NorAm tour (ranked fourth), including one victory and a fourth-place finish at the FIS Junior World Championships in Finland.

Joe Discoe is known for having some of the most dynamic turns in the business. A determined and passionate athlete, Discoe loves the adrenaline and speed of the sport, enough for him to be one of the most dedicated athletes out there.

Heidi Kloser has been a sport fanatic since day one. Almost immediately she realized her true love for skiing. As soon as she was able to rip up the slopes, Kloser was headed right for the bumps and jumps.

Now the only Bahrke on the U.S. Ski Team, Scotty Bahrke has been advancing faster after deciding to zero in on aerials. His sister, mogul skier Shannon Bahrke, retired at the end of the 2010 season.

Up until the 2005 season, Bahrke was a triple threat – moguls, aerials and big air – but he qualified for the World Cup in aerials and went on to win the 2005 NorAm title, so his course became pretty clear. He continued his climb in the 2011 season with his first career World Cup podium, a third-place result in Calgary.

Mogul skier Patrick Deneen got a break growing up in Washington. His father was part owner and general manager of a ski resort, so young Deneen was on skis before he was a year old. He started as an alpine racer, but kept watching freestyle skiers and eventually made the change to running bumps.

Deneen took home a third place podium at Deer Valley in 2015 before going on to the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships in Kreischberg, Austria, where he finished just off the podium in fourth. Injuries kept Deneen out of competition for the 2015-16 season.

A Maine native, Jeremy Cota's laid-back style may be what will take him all the way. Cota had some impressive wins on the NorAm tour under his belt and made the U.S. Ski Team in the 2010 season. He's has had some great experience with winning, and he flawlessly carried that experience into his World Cup rookie season.

The 2015 season was a strong one for Cota, who skied to a second place podium and five top-10 finishes on the World Cup tour. 

Former gymnast Heather McPhie came late to moguls skiing, but she's been making up for lost time. In 2010, the Bozeman, Montana native found a new gear and accelerated to her first four career World Cup podiums, including one win in her current hometown of Park City, UT. Her breakout results earned her a trip to her first Olympics in Vancouver.

In 2012, McPhie became the first ever moguls skier to pick up a Red Bull sponsorship. She used her new wings in the 2012-13 season to add five World Cup podiums, three of which were wins, to her skiing resume.

Vermonter Hannah Kearney keeps finding herself in the middle of success, the most distinguished of which was her nailing the coveted gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

As a youth, high school state soccer and track team championships were followed by four Junior World Championship titles in moguls. When the multi-sport talent hit the moguls World Cup fulltime, she won two competitions in her rookie season–one when she was just 17 years old. A year later, Kearney was the 2005 moguls World Champion.

As the youngest of four siblings, Eliza Outtrim had plenty of family to chase down the slopes of Mount Snow. When the freestyle program got off the ground at the Vermont resort, she and her brother signed up.

David DiGravio is a believer in the old saying, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog." At 5’8” he isn't the biggest guy on the hill, but his inner fire, fueled from the time his older brother was out-skiing him, keeps igniting him to do better.