Park & Pipe Continental Cup recap: North American Cup 2024/25
Apr 15, 2025·Freeski Park & Pipe)
The 2024/25 FIS Park & Pipe Continental Cup season wrapped up this past weekend with European Cup Premium action going down at Switzerland’s famed Corvatsch Park, and with both the European and North American Cup campaigns now in the books we’re taking time this week to look back at what went down on the World Cup’s top feeder series’, beginning today with the North American Cup recap.
NOR-AM FREESKI 2024/25
On the freeski side of things, the 2024/25 NAC season saw a total of 10 men’s competitions and 11 women’s competitions taking place across halfpipe, slopestyle and big air events - three halfpipe competitions for both genders, five slopestyle competitions for both, three big airs for the women and two big airs for the men. Five resorts across Canada and the USA played host this past season - Copper Mountain (USA), Aspen Highlands (USA), Stoneham (CAN), Winsport Calgary (CAN), and Mammoth Mountain (USA).
One men’s big air final was cancelled in Calgary, while the final freeski halfpipe NAC event of the year in Mammoth was also called off.
As we have come to expect, the USA was dominant on the NAC freeski halfpipe side of things once again in 2024/25, with Keva Kelly taking top spot overall for the women and Nick Geiser leading the way in the men’s standings.
It was an exceptional season for 14-year-old Kelly, who showed well in halfpipe, slopestyle, big air and rail events in 2024/25, and who earned her personal spot on the 2025/26 World Cup tour with a pipe campaign that saw her take a runner-up in Copper Mountain, a fourth place in the NAC Premium event in Aspen Highlands, and finally a win at Calgary to cap off the NAC halfpipe calendar.
Throw in a second-place finish at the U.S. National Championships back in Copper to end the competition season and you’ve got a tidy winter indeed for the young U.S. skier.
Already a World Cup regular for the deep U.S. squad, Nick Geiser put together a super solid winter of pipe shredding. The 20-year-old punched his ticket to full-time World Cup duty next season with a 2024/25 season that saw him claim fourth place in Copper and second place at the Aspen Highlands NAC premium event, before finishing things off with a third place podium in Calgary to end up on top of the standings by a slim four-point margin over his teammate Cael McCarthy.
On the women’s freeski slopestyle & big air North American Cup standings it was Canada doing the dominating, with all four of the top spots showing the maple leaf flag by season’s end and with Evelyn Mullie standing on top of them all.
Mullie was busy in 2024/25, dropping in on eight NAC competitions and walking away with the victory in four of those starts - including a week in which she took both the slopestyle and big air wins on home soil in Stoneham, and a season-ending week in Mammoth in which she took the big air win and runner-up in the slopestyle competition.
It was more good news for the Canadians on the men’s side of things, where Bruce Oldham - older brother to Engadin 2025 slopestyle bronze medallist Megan - earned his first NAC overall title in his ninth season of action on the tour.
With two slopestyle victories, a big air runner-up, and a pair of fourth-place finishes, the 26-year-old Oldham did more than enough in the 2024/25 NAC season to carve out a guaranteed full-time spot on the World Cup for the first time in his decade-long career.
FULL 2024/25 NAC FREESKI CALENDAR AND RESULTS
NOR-AM CUP SNOWBOARD PARK & PIPE 2024/25
The 2024/25 NAC Snowboard Park & Pipe calendar was even busier than the Freeski schedule, with 14 competitions taking place between halfpipe, slopestyle and big air, and six different North American resorts stepping up for hosting duties - Copper, Aspen Highlands, Winsport Calgary, Stoneham, Horseshoe Resort (CAN) and Mammoth. With no cancellations on the season, we saw four halfpipe competitions, six slopestyle, and four big airs successfully completed.
The women’s NAC snowboard halfpipe title for 2024/25 went to an exciting young talent in Aimee Wild of the USA, as the 14-year-old took two victories and two runner-up results in her four starts to best her nearest competitor by 120 points on the final rankings in what was just her first season of FIS-sanctioned competition. Also earning a start in the inaugural Snow League competition in Aspen, Aimee Wild in 2024/25 firmly established herself as one to watch for next season.
On the men’s side of the snowboard halfpipe equation it was the USA’s Noah Avallone capping off a busy competition season with top spot on the highly competitive men’s rankings and his place on next winter’s World Cup tour. The 17-year-old Avallone claimed podiums in three out of four NAC starts in 2024/25, while also dropping in on four World Cup events, including a 21st place finish at Copper.
Over on what was a jam-packed season of North American Cup slopestyle & big air action, leading the way for the women was Canada’s Juliette Pelchat. Dropping in on all 10 NAC events across slope and big air in 2024/25, Pelchat earned podiums in seven of those 10 starts, including two victories, four runner-up results and a third place finish. Already with 13 World Cup starts to her name, Pelchat will be looking to take things to the next level in 2025/26 with her well-earned personal spot on the big tour.
For the men, we saw one of snowboarding’s most exciting riders take a step backwards in 2024/25 in order to move forwards in 2025/26, as the USA’s Brock Crouch put in the time on the NAC circuit in order to ensure himself of a World Cup quota spot amongst a U.S. team that is, as always, one of the strongest in the world.
Twenty five-year-old Crouch dropped in on eight NAC competitions in 2024/25, earning himself one victory, one second place, and three third place finishes in the process. With a spot on the start list now a sure thing for next season, it will be very interesting to see what Crouch can do with the uncertainty of the quota crunch no longer hanging over his head.
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