Gretchen Bleiler

• In life when you go with your passion and take that huge risk, thats when you become the most successful.

• Date of Birth: April 10, 1981
• Hometown: Aspen, CO
• Other Sponsors: K2 Snowboarding, Oakley Eyewear, Apparel and Accessories, Aspen/Snowmass, Giro, US Snowboarding, Nike Footwear, Mission Skincare, Coca-Cola
• Other Hobbies: Surfing, MTB, golf, yoga, traveling, apparel design
• Career Highlights:
  • 2008 ESPY Award Best Action Sports Female, 1st X Games Superpipe, 1st Snow Angles Invitational, 1st Grand Prix Breckenridge, 1st Action Sports Female on the Cover of ESPN Magazine
  • 2007 1st Breckenridge Grand Prix, 1st Abominable Snow Jam,1st Grand Prix Tamarack, 2nd Grand Prix Mt. Bachelor
, 3rd Mount Baker Banked Slalom, 2nd X Games Superpipe, 2nd US Open Halfpipe
  • 2006 Olympic Silver Medalist Torino, Italy, 1st FIS World Cup Saas Fe, Switzerland
, Overall Grand Prix Champion; won four of the five Grand Prix events determining Olympic team
  • 2005 1st X Games Halfpipe, 1st Gravity Games Halfpipe, 1st US Open Halfpipe