US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame Class of 2024

The U.S. National Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame has elected 10 new honorees. The class of 2024 will be inducted at the Snowsports History Celebration in Lake Placid, New York, in March 2025, as part of ISHA’s annual Skiing History Week. The Class of 2024 includes:

Sarah Billmeier One of the most accomplished Paralympic skiers of all time, Billmeier earned 13 Olympic medals—seven gold, five silver and one bronze—from 1992 to 2002. Billmeier also holds six World Championship titles. Losing a leg to cancer at age five, she learned to ski at age eight, was racing by 10 and at 14 was the youngest member of the U.S. Disabled Alpine Ski Team. In 2002 she retired from ski racing to pursue her medical career and is now a surgeon out of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, New Hampshire.

Barrett Christy Cummins Cummins’s snowboarding career included 11 X Games medals (1997-2002) and victories in halfpipe, big air and slopestyle. She remains the only female to win gold at the same X Games in two disciplines. She originated the Barrett Roll, the first trick named after a female snowboarder. Cummins was a member of the 1998 inaugural U.S. snowboard halfpipe Olympic team and her Gnu pro model is the longest-running women’s snowboard on the market.

Denny and Chris Hanson Denny and Chris started skiing as young racers in Michigan in the 1950s and ’60s. The brothers founded Hanson Ski Boots in 1970 and introduced the first commercially viable rear-entry boot. They set out to provide a comfortable performance ski boot for all skiers. This innovation spurred most major ski boot companies to introduce rear-entry designs in the late 1970s and ’80s. In 2006, Denny founded Apex Ski Boots, combining a snowboard-style inner boot with an open rigid chassis.

Hannah Kearney In 2010, Kearney won Olympic gold in moguls, backing it up with a bronze four years later in Sochi. Her consistency earned her a women’s record-matching 46 World Cup moguls victories, equaling the record of Hall of Famer Donna Weinbrecht. Kearney also earned eight world championship medals (three gold, two silver and three bronze), four World Cup overall titles and six World Cup moguls titles. She retired in 2015.

Greg Lewis Lewis made his mark in a media and broadcast career spanning half a century. In 1972, he joined Bob Beattie’s Worldwide Ski Corporation and became the voice of World Pro Skiing. Lewis covered winter and summer Olympic sports for NBC, CBS, ESPN, HBO, Turner, and GGP for nearly 30 years. He also wrote and narrated ski films for Jalbert Productions. He is a two-time EMMY honoree. In 2015, ISHA honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jimbo Morgan A freeskiing innovator, Morgan helped coin the term “freeski” and was a pioneer of the ski cross discipline. He was on the U.S. speed-skiing team, participated in the speed-skiing demonstration at the 1992 Olympics and competed simultaneously in multiple disciplines throughout his career. His early embrace of snowboarding helped publicize the sport. Morgan logged numerous big-mountain descents, starred in multiple ski films and was a member of the iconic freeski team founded by K2 in 1997.

Chuck and Jann Perkins Chuck and Jann’s humble beginnings started with their Alpine Shop in Vermont. They became preeminent philanthropic advocates for the preservation of snowsport history with their lifelong support of the 10th Mountain Division, the International Federation of Mountain Soldiers and the International Skiing History Association. Their decades of support and donations to regional snowsports museums and the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame highlight their commitment to preserving the history of snowsports globally.

Park Smalley Considered by many as the “Father of Freestyle,” Smalley played a pivotal role in the sport’s early growth. He was the first head coach of the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team and his athletes won seven Nations Cups, 114 World Cup victories and 332 podiums. He was an early competitor in the sport's hot dog days, helped initiate the International Freestyle Skiers Association and was