Thredbo Ambassadors
Meet the crew! Thredbo is stoked to support all of our ambassadors who call our mountain their home, training ground and playground! From Olympians to Local Ambassadors and rising stars, we’re proud to help these athletes achieve their dreams on the snow and in the mountain bike park.
Keep an eye out and you might even run into one of the long list of athletes on the mountain.
Our crew of winter superstars are no strangers to shredding Thredbo. Already making their mark on the global snowsport stage, we’re proud that these athletes call Thredbo home. Check them out below!
Scotty James
Thredbo is thrilled to announce that Australian pro snowboarder Scotty James has joined the family as its newest ambassador. The best halfpipe rider in the world currently with both silver and bronze Olympic medals, Scotty James is a four-time Winter Olympian, a three-time world champion, a nine-time X Games medalist and served as Australia’s flag bearer at the 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. Scotty grew up competing in Thredbo and has returned to visit, ride and compete many times since. Now an ambassador, Scotty James and Thredbo are joining forces to support the development of the next generation of Australian snowsport athletes. Kicking things off, Scotty generously donated a mini pipe cutter to the Thredbo community, enabling the resort to build the new 13ft MOOKi’s Mini Pipe for everyone to enjoy this winter & for many seasons to come.
Tess Coady
Tess Coady has well and truly made her mark on the global snowboarding stage, bringing home a Bronze Medal from the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. The 2017 World Junior Champion and Australia’s first-ever World Cup slopestyle gold medalist at Seiser Alm, Italy also took out a bronze medal at the World Championships. Tess joins snowboarding legend Torah Bright as the only Australian snowboarder to win a World Championship medal in slopestyle. Taking home 2nd place in the Big Air at the Beijing World Cup 2023 and in Slopestyle at the Silvaplana World Cup 2023, Tess is continuing to take the world by storm. During Thredbo’s winter season, she now also plays host to the iconic 2-day Monster Energy Bush Doof event.
Ben Tudhope
Australia’s youngest ever Winter Paralympian, Ben Tudhope is already a veteran with three Paralympic Games to his name at the tender age of 22. Most recently taking home a Bronze Medal from Beijing 2022, Ben is Co-Captain of the Australian Paralympic Team, proudly carried the Australian flag at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Games Closing Ceremony and is a current World Champion.
Josie Baff
21-year-old snowboarder and Jindabyne local, Josie Baff made history when she became Australia’s first winter youth Olympic champion. Since then, Josie has gone on to compete in her first World Cup, achieving a top 15 result, before competing as the youngest female on the team at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Women’s Snowboard Cross and Mixed Team Snowboard Cross.
Jarryd Hughes
Competing in Beijing 2022, PyeongChang 2018 and Sochi 2014, Jarryd Hughes is best known for the historic event where the then 22-year-old claimed a silver medal in a hotly contested men’s snowboard-cross. In 2021, Hughes teamed up with Belle Brockhoff to win Australia’s first-ever gold medal in the team event at the 2021 World Championships in Idre Fjäll, Sweden. Hughes also ranked number two in the World on the FIS World Cup Rankings after making his first mark on the international snowboard cross circuit in 2012.
These talented locals have competed on some of the world’s biggest stages, from Junior World Cup Championships, the Freedride tour and the Olympics – this crew has conquered it all.
Jye Kearney
Growing up in Thredbo, Jye was already riding for Burton and landing magazine covers by age 13. In 2016 he was one of the only southern hemisphere snowboarders to make a debut in an internationally recognised snowboard film with Method Magazine.
Abi Harrigan
A true all-rounder and Snowy Mountains local, Abi Harrigan started skiing at the age of 2. The now 20-year-old has competed in the Slopestyle competition and the Big Air at the 2019 Australian New Zealand Cup, the World Cup Halfpipe competition in 2019 and represented Australia in the women’s slopestyle in the 2022 Olympic Games.
Arkie Ellis
Growing up in Thredbo’s unique alpine village, Arkie Ellis was destined to find her passion for skiing and the mountains. When the roads were snowed in, Arkie and her brother Joey would swap school days with riding days, and can now be seen riding Australia’s Best Ski Resort alongside their Olympic counterparts. In 2024, Arkie is now competing in Freeride world tour qualifier events and is part of the North Face Development Team, recently taking part in multiple backcountry filming trips with the brand. Flashback to 2016 when her and Joey were little and talked about why they love Thredbo HERE.
Joey Ellis
Joey Ellis grew up in Thredbo’s alpine village and has made the mountains his home ever since. A shredder at his core, he started out in Thredboland and moved through all of Thredbo’s skiing programs into Mountain Academy where he begun to free ski. First competing nationally and then internationally in Slopestyle and Big Air, Joey has recently been seen at events like the Youth Olympics in 2024, the Junior World Cup Championships and the Europe Cup Circuit. Moving on up!
Our Juniors are the next generation of snowsport athletes and we’re stoked that we get to support them elevate their riding. Check them out!
Juan George
Snowboarding since the age of 5, 14-year-old Junior Ambassador Juan makes the trip down from Sydney to live in the Snowy Mountains each winter and make Thredbo his training ground. Chasing the winters to compete overseas, Juan is always up for an adventure and lets his riding do the talking. Competing across Slopestyle, Rails, Big Air and Snowboard Cross, Juan has taken out multiple podium finishes at Thredbo events including the Transfer Banked Slalom, was the Overall Champion in his division at the 2023 Thredbo Triple Crown, and has taken out the Champion title across multiple disciplines at the regional, state and national interschools competitions from 2020-2023. Big things ahead for this rising star!
Maddie Llyod
Junior Ambassador Maddie is an allrounder who fully embraces an active mountain lifestyle and spends her time MTB riding, skiing and snowboarding. After moving to Jindabyne in 2018, Maddie started riding gravity and then begun racing at age seven. With an impressive list of podium finishes, she has won multiple National Championships and taken out the Thredbo Gravity Series in her division for the last three MTB seasons and been crowned Queen of the Mtn (Div 4) in the 2022 and 2023 Australian Mountain Bike Interschools. In Winter she is a multi discipline athlete, freeskiing in the park and powder, snowboard and ski cross and dabbles in cross country.
Our MTB Senior Ambassador crew is stacked with rock-solid athletes that are leaders in the sport. Check them out!
Jack Moir
Riding and racing in Thredbo for years, Jack Moir is one of the most recent additions to the MTB ambassador crew. Hailing from Lake Macquarie, Jack‘s MTB career has gone from strength to strength in recent years, now riding for the Canyon Factory Team & Monster Energy. Jack turned pro as a downhill MTB racer in 2015 and quickly became a Top 10 fixture on the global circuit, claiming the 2016 Crankworx DH overall title. Jack switched to racing enduro full-time in 2020, going on to win five races in 2021 with his career-first overall World Championship in the Enduro World Series (EWS).
Sian A’Hern
A girl boss in the mountain bike park, World Cup racer Sian has won multiple Australian National and Oceania Downhill Champion titles. Sian got into MTB through her brother Kye and now races for factory World Cup team YT MOB, Boost Mobile, SRAM, Oakley, and Maxxis. She has been awarded “Queen of Cannonball” multiple times and the overall Thredbo Gravity Series Champion. She loves lapping the Cannonball Downhill and having a good time so look out for her shredding the park this summer.
Kye A’Hern
Ranking 16th in the 2023 World Championships and 3rd in the 2023 National Championships, Kye is making his way up the global leader board and making his mark in the world of mountain biking. Kye fell in love with the sport after coming to Thredbo and since then has won multiple Australian Downhill National Championships and in 2019 became Junior World Champion. No stranger to Thredbo’s podiums, Kye has won ‘King of Cannonball’ at Cannonball MTB Festival and rides for the UR Factory Team.
Caroline Buchanan
The latest recruit to the Thredbo Ambassador crew, Caroline is a 3x BMX World Champion, 5x MTB World Champion, 2x Queen of Crankworx and Dual Olympian Athlete. With a hugely impressive record, this female powerhouse is a pro-athlete, business woman, mentor and proud advocate for women in sports. With her down to earth attitude, she is equally at home racing and freestyle mountain biking as she is teaching young girls how to navigate their first run on the track. With her influence and recognition in her field, she uses her platform to support and empower young women in sports through her IGNITE scholarships, paving the way for the Next Gen.
Jackson Frew
The underdog of Australian Downhill, Jackson started on the BMX track and has become a gun all-mountain rider tackling everything from Pump Track to BMX to Downhill. In recent years his form has seen him stand on multiple Crankworx podiums gunning for the King of Crankworx title. He is now ranked #27 in the world and calls Thredbo his home mountain!
Tim Eaton
Tim has done it all when it comes to Australian Downhill. He has been crowned the ‘King of Cannonball’ at Cannonball MTB Festival twice and the Thredbo Super Enduro Champion multiple times. He is the current Enduro National Champion and focuses on Enduro and the Enduro World Series, racing everything from World Cups, Enduro World Series and Crankworx.
Josh Arcus
21 year-old Josh Arcus is an up & coming Downhill MTB racer to keep an eye on. Hailing from Sydney, Josh has been riding all kinds of bikes for as long as he can remember and racing downhill for the past 7 years. A regular on the Cannonball MTB Festival podiums, Josh is a Boost Mobile athlete who is closely knocking on the door of a top 5 result at this year’s festival. It all started in Thredbo for Josh and in his words, ‘I still love going back every time’.
Our local MTB ambassadors grew up ripping the Thredbo MTB Park and the world stage.
Jackson Connelly
Jackson is a rising star in Australian Downhill, having won multiple National Downhill Championships and multiple Australian Open Downhill Championships. In 2022 he signed with the newly formed PinkBike Racing Factory team which saw him land on the world stage racing against the worlds best. His first time up into the mountain bike park was at Thredbo when he was seven years old. At the time, he was the youngest person ever to ride the park by over four years.
Thomas Crimmins
Thomas Crimmins is a legend mountain biker in Thredbo and has raced in many World Cups, World Champs and Crankworx events. Growing up riding the Thredbo MTB Park, he is known to dominate any track on the mountain and is no stranger to the Thredbo’s Cannonball MTB Festival, winning the Flow Motion Cup multiple times.
Georgia Henness
Following in her dad’s footsteps, 17-year-old Georgia started out racing flat track as a young grom before moving to Jindabyne and beginning to ride and race MTB at age 12. She collected multiple podiums at Crankworx and National events before racing in the downhill MTB World Cups and World Champs across Europe in 2023. Looking ahead, this up-and-coming talent is continuing to travel the circuit with a the Synergy 37 racing team to complete the DH World Cup season and continue moving up the leaderboard.
Tegan Molloy
Born and bred in the Snowy Mountains, Thredbo is Tegan’s second home. You’ll catch her riding on two wheels in summer and on skis or a snowboard in winter. This humble ambassador has many accolades under her belt, her most famous title being Downhill Junior World Champion. You’ll catch Tegan shredding Thredbo most weekends, riding trail or downhill. Tegan is an icon for young women in the sport, inspiring many females to get out and ride.
Meet the newest recruits to our Ambassador team! The future of Mountain Biking is going to be bigger and better than ever with these talented youngsters riding as hard as they do.
Maddie Llyod
Junior Ambassador Maddie is an allrounder who fully embraces an active mountain lifestyle and spends her time MTB riding, skiing and snowboarding. After moving to Jindabyne in 2018, Maddie started riding gravity and then begun racing at age seven. With an impressive list of podium finishes, she has won multiple National Championships and taken out the Thredbo Gravity Series in her division for the last three MTB seasons and been crowned Queen of the Mtn (Div 4) in the 2022 and 2023 Australian Mountain Bike Interschools. In Winter she is a multi discipline athlete, freeskiing in the park and powder, snowboard and ski cross and dabbles in cross country.
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