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| Full name | Ryan Max Riley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 15, 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Harvard University, University of Oxford, Yale University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | athlete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle Skiing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ryan Max Riley (born May 15, 1979) is an American athlete who was a two-time US National Champion on the U.S. Ski Team in the freestyle skiing events of moguls and dual moguls.
United States Ski Team
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 Ryan Max Riley winning bronze at Goodwill Games in freestyle skiing moguls in 2000 |
Riley earned a spot on the U.S. Ski Team in 1998, when he won the overall Nor-Am Cup in Moguls. On March 14, 1998, he competed in his first World Cup, in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, and placed 14th. He got his first top-5 result on the World Cup the next season, finishing fifth in Dual Moguls in Madarao, Japan, on February 21, 1999 (he placed sixth the day before in Moguls). A week later, he won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in Jyvaskyla, Finland.[1]
Riley placed second in a World Cup in 2002 in Madarao, Japan, and won silver and bronze medals at the Goodwill Games in 2000.[2]
He is a 2-time U.S. National Champion in moguls. He won his second U.S. National Championship with one of the highest scores in the history of the sport (a 28.55) in Moguls in 2001 in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire.[3]
In 2000, he was featured in the Warren Miller film Ride.[4]
Biography
[edit]Riley grew up in Colorado, graduating in 1997 from the Lowell Whiteman School in Steamboat Springs and training on the freestyle teams at Winter Park Resort and the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club.[5][6]
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| Ryan Max Riley's winning run at US Champs in freestyle skiing moguls in 2001 |
Riley earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, where he wrote for The Harvard Lampoon.[7] He later earned masters' degrees from Oxford University and Yale University.[8][9]
Since 2015, Riley has owned The Distillery at Greylock WORKS, a cocktail bar and distillery in North Adams, Massachusetts.[10][11]
References
[edit]- ↑ International Ski Federation
- ↑ International Ski Federation
- ↑ US Championships 2001
- ↑ Warren Miller
- ↑ Lowell Whiteman School
- ↑ Vermont Country Magazine
- ↑ "Founder". The Shires Tutoring Company. Retrieved 2026-06-15.
- ↑ Vermont Country Magazine
- ↑ Yale biography[dead link]
- ↑ Barrons
- ↑ Vermont Country Magazine