Megan Gunning
Megan will be competing in the WSI Superpipe (April 20, Blackcomb Superpipe)
Hometown: Calgary, AB
Sponsors: Salomon, Oakley, Kombi, Coal Headwear, Fresh Sports Clothing
Results: 2nd 2010 Aspen XGames, 8th 2010 XGames Europe, 3rd 2009 WSI Superpipe
About Megan: I started skiing when I was about nine or ten. My mom was a big skier when she was younger but I was born in Atlanta. So I lived there until I was five. and when we moved to Ontario, I started riding around, just ripping. And when I was nine my mom put me in this Jumps and Bumps group at Horseshoe Resort. You would just go around and hit jumps and in Ontario it’s pretty small but it was fun. And then we moved to Calgary and I got into this freestyle program out of COP. My brother was in it as well and I really got into it when I started riding with my brother’s group. And they pushed me because they were like, “you have to do it now, we all did it.” I started out in the Rocky Mountain Freeriders program which is a big-mountain group—the discipline I started in. I was a big-mountain skier for a long time until I started doing more pipe and slope. And then I got into my first Junior Nationals and I really wanted to push myself in the park areas, because I used to be a figure skater. But it’s so hard to be good at figure skating… kind of, at the same level… and I really think skiing is more fun.
