Engadin 2025 Team Announcement | Park & Pipe

Ten Park & Pipe athletes have been selected to represent Australia at the 2025 FIS Snowboard, Freestyle & Freeski World Championships in Engadin, Switzerland which gets underway next week.

SNOWBOARD
Olympic medallists Scotty James and Tess Coady spearhead an eight-strong team of snowboarders who will take on the world in Switzerland.

It’s been six years since James scored the last of his three World titles and in a season in which he has taken two World Cup podiums - including a win - along with yet another X-Games gold, the 30-year-old is a real threat to win another World Championship.

He will be joined in the Halfpipe by two-time Olympian Emily Arthur and World Championships debutants Amelie Haskell and Misaki Vaughan.

While Arthur will be searching for her third top 10 at her sixth straight World Championships, Haskell and Vaughan will benefit from James' and Arthur’s experience with the pair recording just eight World Cup starts between them in their young careers.

Jesse Parkinson and Mela Stalker join Coady in both Slopestyle and Big Air.

On her comeback from injury, Coady - the Slopestyle Olympic bronze medallist from Beijing - was fourth at the Calgary World Cup to show she is still one of the world’s best. She made her first World Championships appearance in 2017 as a 16-year-old and two years ago in Bakuriani claimed Big Air bronze.

Stalker and Parkinson both got their first taste of World Championships action in Georgia and are back for a second appearance. Stalker earned two top 20 results in Bakuriani as a teenager while Parkinson has been competing frequently at the top level recently, making half of his 16 World Cup starts this season alone.

Coady and Stalker start their Championships with Slopestyle qualifying on Thursday 20 March with Parkinson in action the following day. The men’s and women’s finals are then scheduled for Sunday 23 March.

Big Air qualifying starts two days later with men’s and women’s Halfpipe qualifying commencing on Thursday 27 March.

Friday 28 March sees the finals of Snowboard Big Air before Snowboard Halfpipe finals on Saturday.

FREESKI
Three freeskiers will be on the start line in Switzerland, led by 2022 Olympian Abi Harrigan who is having a strong season.

Harrigan claimed a career-best World Cup result at Stubai in November with a Slopestyle seventh, and has been pushed hard by newcomer Daisy Thomas.

The Winter Youth Olympic Games silver medallist had two top 10s at the Junior World Championships in 2023, and with a pair of World Cup top 10s this season will not be shy about taking on the best in her first World Championships appearance.

Also on debut at the World Championships is Thomas’ Winter Youth Olympic Games teammate Joey Elliss.

Like Thomas, Elliss has also been in the top 10 at the Youth Olympics and Junior World Championships, and on the back of his World Cup debut in December he has gone on to record a two top five European Cup results in February.

Elliss will start his campaign with Slopestyle qualifying on Wednesday 19 March before Thomas and Harrigan get underway the following day. They will all hope to earn starts in finals on Saturday 22 March. The women are then up for Big Air qualifying on Wednesday 26 March before Elliss takes to the big jump on Thursday. Freeski Big Air Finals are scheduled for Saturday 29 March.