Ahead of Milano Cortina 2026, Angelina Kendall and Freestyle Skier Alex Hall Carve Up the Streets

I grew up in Zurich, Switzerland—my parents still live over there—and I started skiing before I can remember, probably when I was one or so. I don’t remember learning how to ski, because it was just something I grew up doing, but I started freestyle skiing when I was about 10.

Both my parents loved to ski—especially my dad; he’s a huge skier. He grew up around Salt Lake City, where we moved when I was 16, and skied his whole life. And I have an older brother who’s a snowboarder, so I’d go out with him. He’d snowboard, I’d ski, and my parents would go off and ski on their own. I was never really part of a team—I always just did it on my own, and I just did all sorts of skiing, especially park skiing, which is similar to the kind of freestyle skiing that I compete in now, which is slopestyle and big-air skiing. Big-air is one big jump where you do your best tricks, and slopestyle is a series of jumps and rail combined into a run, which is the event I won in the last Olympics.