Snowboard
Kate Delson
🇺🇸Mammoth Lakes, California
Paralympic Silver Medalist · Crystal Globe Champion · Para Snowboard
Kate Delson was born with a congenital disability that left her missing most of the muscles in her right leg. Doctors weren't sure she'd ever walk. Today she says she's better at snowboarding than walking — and the results back it up.
Growing up in Mammoth Lakes, California, Kate started skiing at three with Disabled Sports Eastern Sierras, but switched to snowboarding at six when she realized having both feet on one board changed everything. She joined the Mammoth Snowboard Team as its first athlete with a physical disability, landed her first 360 within weeks, and placed third at Junior Nationals in slopestyle — the only para-athlete in the competition. Her transition to para snowboard cross was immediate and devastating: she won her first Europa Cup in Finland, then tore through her debut World Cup season with multiple wins, a World Championship silver medal, and the overall Crystal Globe as the number one ranked women's para snowboarder in the world.
At just 20 years old, Kate earned silver at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Games in her first-ever Paralympics — the youngest member of the U.S. Para Snowboard Team. She's just getting started.
Growing up in Mammoth Lakes, California, Kate started skiing at three with Disabled Sports Eastern Sierras, but switched to snowboarding at six when she realized having both feet on one board changed everything. She joined the Mammoth Snowboard Team as its first athlete with a physical disability, landed her first 360 within weeks, and placed third at Junior Nationals in slopestyle — the only para-athlete in the competition. Her transition to para snowboard cross was immediate and devastating: she won her first Europa Cup in Finland, then tore through her debut World Cup season with multiple wins, a World Championship silver medal, and the overall Crystal Globe as the number one ranked women's para snowboarder in the world.
At just 20 years old, Kate earned silver at the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Games in her first-ever Paralympics — the youngest member of the U.S. Para Snowboard Team. She's just getting started.
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