Name: Bella Warren

Age: 20

Social Media Handles: b_unit.166 on Instagram

Hometown: Bloomington, MN

Home Mountain: Hyland Hills

Sponsors: Nidecker Snowboards, 1910, Pro-Tec Helmets, Coal Headwwear

Stance: Goofy

Setup: Nidecker Sensor Team Board, Nidecker Kaon-Pro Bindings, Nidecker Women’s Rift Boots. 51.5 cm width and 6/-6 for angles.

How did you find snowboarding? My mom taught me how to make my first turns at age 8, but I was a once-a-year warrior until 14. At the beginning of high school, I moved into a house across the street from Hyland and my sister and I got our first jobs instructing there. We would hangout before/after our lessons, and my little gremlin coworkers started daring me nonstop to hit features. I always wanted to prove them wrong so I would never back down, despite not knowing what a 50-50 was the first time I hit a rail (I thought you were supposed to go ‘sideways’).

Years snowboarding? 7

Best Contest Result? 3rd at Rockstar Open Rail Jam

Favorite Snowboard Video? Hot Cocoa

Biggest Inspiration? Jill Perkins and Lex Hernandez-Roland. Those two were some of the first people I looked up to in snowboarding, I remember so vividly watching Jill’s parts and thinking ‘wait maybe I could do that too’. I had Lex’s signed print from her Bomb Hole episode up on my wall for years- I listened to her episode and watched her parts religiously. It’s surreal to now consider Lex a friend and a mentor.

What motivates you? Having larger than life goals and always raising the bar. I never want to be stagnant or complacent. I am always pushing to learn new tricks, clean things up, and build consistency.

What rider from the new generation is the gonna be the future of snowboarding? Paizley White– she’s such a little ripper I can’t wait to see where she goes.

Most Underrated Rider? Miyu Oishi. Both way fb pretzels on LOCK, need I say more??

Favorite Old Head? Matt Schimdt, my honorary coach.

Best Style? Mia Brookes

Most Cooked Homie? Joey Fava

Most Talented Rider? Hinano, @hinano6622 Go watch her backtail sameway a dfd and you will 100% agree.

Sketchiest Homie? Anyone on Perisher Park crew. They’re loose down under.

Favorite filmer? George Murphy.

Who brings the best energy? Ella Sorenson, it’s impossible to have a bad day riding with Ella.

Worst trick? Fifty-board pretz, but I am also a hypocrite cause sometimes I’ll bust one out if I’m in a pickle.

Steel or Powder? Steel, I cry when there’s not enough speed in the park.

Dream Sponsor (Doesn’t Have to Be Snowboarding-Related): Red Bull.

Biggest fear? Teeth vs. Steel, I always have nightmares about my teeth breaking or falling out.

Is there a time where you should have died but made it out unscathed? Or sketchiest moment? If you haven’t already seen it, go watch the wall backflip-face-flop from Hyland hidden in my highlights. I was so embarrassed at the time but now I’d consider it pretty hilarious. Definitely not unscathed though, I couldn’t see straight for a day or two.

Warm up or straight to business? Straight to B, but 1 lap to check if the rails are sliding.

When do you ride best? On a tow rope with the homies.

When do you ride your worst? When I’m over caffeinated or hungry.

Best and worst place to snowboard? Best place: Perisher because the energy and rails are immaculate. Worst place: Anywhere corporate during the holidays. The park is not the place to teach your kids how to ski, we will run them over.

Interests outside of snowboarding? At this point just reading and school. I don’t have time for much outside of school, it’s a lot of work, but I do love it. Shoutout Maggie Leon for the inspiration, she’s the reason I’m studying Mechanical Engineering (if anyone needs to hire an intern in SLC let me know).

A moment that you’ll never forget? Getting 2nd at my first Futures Tour at Mt. Snow. It seems so insignificant given everything that’s happened since, but at the time it meant the world. I wanted to ride in Rev tours more than anything, despite only having competed for a year and not really being ready for it, and I knew that the way to do that was a future’s podium. I had an agreement with my parents at the time that if I wanted to do Futures, I would pay for my own travel/comps fees. So I knew, on my instructor income I could only go to ONE futures and I had to make it count. I spent months saving money, dialing in tricks, and training my mind- and in the end it paid off in exactly the way I had hoped. I proved to myself that, if I decide I want to do something, I can and I will.

Best advice you ever received? Go faster.

Words to live by? Make friends with your limits.

Shout Outs: Mom, Matt, Dad, Mollie, Evy, Lei, Scout, Laney, Sophia, George, Mrs. Heidi and Victor, everyone who puts up with my shenanigans. All the sponsors of course, and Tom Pelley and Will Rivera, thank you for everything guys <3

Describe snowboarding in one word: Passion.

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