Tap in with Thirtytwo Snowboarding’s latest pick up, Ellie Weiler

Name: Ellie Weiler

Age: 23

Social Media Handles: Instagram & TikTok – @ellie.weiler

Hometown: Highlands Ranch, Colorado

Home Mountain: Copper Mountain

Sponsors: Thirtytwo, DeathGrip Glove Co, Purl Wax, Smith Optics, Gravitee Boardshop

Stance: Goofy

Snowboard Setup: Thirtytwo Gemini 152cm, Thirtytwo Team Fase Bindings, Thirtytwo Women’s TM-2 Double Boa. Stance width 20 inches with 9 and -9 for angles.

How did you find Snowboarding?
My parents started me and my brother off skiing when I was 4 and from there I saw snowboarding and made the switch when I was 7.

Years snowboarding?
Started in 2009 so just about 16 years

Best Contest Result?
It’s super hard for me to choose a “best” result. Some highlights are that I won the Rookie Award at Uninvited 2024, Style Award at RND 2025, and won World QRTS 2024.

Favorite Snowboard Video?
The Uninvited II

Biggest Inspiration?
Jamie Anderson

What motivates you?
Wanting to do my best

What rider from the new generation is the gonna be the future of snowboarding?
Jack Coyne and Jess Perlmutter have been crushing it. I’m excited to see what they both do in snowboarding and am stoked to call them both friends.

Most Underrated Rider?
Brendan Sullivan… GO WATCH SYRUP

Favorite Old Head?
This is so hard! I’m also super fortunate to be able to call Barrett Christy Cummins, Shannon Dunn-Downing, and Jess Kimura mentors, but I don’t think of them as “Old Heads”

Best style?
Halldor Helgason or Rene Rinnekangas

Most cooked homie?
Nah not gonna put any of my buddies on blast like that lol

Most talented rider?
Scotty Stevens or Zoi, but I’ve seen them both work so hard that it’s definitely not just their talent that’s gotten them to where they are.

Sketchiest homie?
Again, not putting anyone on blast haha

Favorite filmer? Mia Lambson

Who brings the best energy?
Fava Brothers!

Steel or Powder?
Powder

Dream Sponsor (Doesn’t Have to Be Snowboarding-Related)
Any Airline

Worst trend in Snowboarding? Wearing black or grey scale clothing in the backcountry

Biggest fear?
Heights…

Is there a time where you should have died but made it out unscathed or a sketchiest moment?
Sketchiest moment was sadly when I blew out my knee in 2022 in Saas Fee because when my surgeon was explaining the MRI and the amount of bone bruising he said “I don’t know how you didn’t shatter your Tibia Plateau and need emergency surgery.”

Warm up or straight to business?
I would like to get straight to business but my knees say warm up to walk down a set of stairs.

Best and worst place to snowboard?
The best place to snowboard is anywhere with powder! And I can’t think of a worst place to snowboard cause you’re still snowboarding

When do you ride best?
When I’m having fun and with my friends

When do you ride your worst?
When I put pressure on myself

Interests Outside of Snowboarding?
Soccer (Women’s Super League, NWSL, Women’s Champions League), Hockey, (PWHL and NHL), really all sports.

A snowboard moment that you’ll never forget?
First X Games invite

Best advice you ever received?
I had a soccer coach (who I still go back and work for) who would say that “pressure makes diamonds and squished frogs…” He has this whole story about the poor frog being ran over by a car and how yeah it gets squished but at the same time coal with immense pressure over time can turn into diamonds. So yeah, be a diamond and not a squished frog.

Words to Live By:
See above

Shout Outs:
Mom, Dad and my brother Jack! He just graduated from college this past December! Huge thanks to all my sponsors and people that’ve supported me. Josh’s (and Mandy’s) Backyard, Team Summit Colorado, Real Colorado Soccer, the mini pipe at Timberline, and the massive QP that Copper had one year after Large Line.

Describe snowboarding in one word: Freedom