Meghan Tierney
Meghan Tierney (born January 15, 1997) is an American snowboarder. She competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in snowboardcross, and 2022 Winter Olympics, in Women's snowboard cross. Early life. Born in Long Branch, New Jersey, Tierney was raised in Rumson, New Jersey and nearby Little Silver. She began snowboarding at age ten. Her family moved to Edwards, Colorado to allow Meghan and her siblings, Chris, Daniel and Makayla, to further their snowboarding training. Meghan attended the Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy for her first two years of high school before transferring to the International Snowboard Training Center. Career . At the Junior level, Tierney placed 4th in snowboardcross at the 2014 FIS Junior World Championships and 15th in snowboardcross at the 2016 FIS Junior World Championships. Tierney is the only US athlete to ever win both the NORAM and Europa Cup Championships. In November 2016, Tierney fell during a training camp in Austria, breaking the L3 vertebrae in her back. The injury forced Tierney to sit out the rest of the 2016-17 season. Tierny placed 25th and 31st in her first World Cup races of the 2017-18 season. Tierney finished the final World Cup race before Olympic  selection in seventh, the top placing American woman at the event. She was selected to compete in snowboardcross for the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.