Summit Lynch has a full schedule this week at the 2024 United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Assocation National Championship at Copper Mountain: The 12-year-old Colorado snowboarder qualified for all six disciplines at the nationals in Summit County. 

Lynch participated in the opening ceremonies Saturday and kicked off his six-round campaign Sunday, finishing 17th of 46 in the giant slalom race. He is scheduled to race slalom Monday and boardercross Tuesday before moving on to the freestyle disciplines he’s better known for later in the week: slopestyle, halfpipe and the rail jam.

While he’s aiming for the podium in boardercross and each of the freestyle events, he’s also after the overall points prize for his age division. Lynch competes in the boys 11-12 age bracket, and jokes that he is already 11 years into his snowboarding career.       

“I don’t even remember my first time snowboarding — I mean, I was 1 year old — but there’s videos of my dad first getting me into it and every video I’ve seen is of me loving it from the first time I ever did it,” Lynch said. “I’ve wanted to do it all, ever since.”

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