Faith Stanton

Massachusetts / Colorado, USA | Active: 2020s public ski record | Discipline: Freeride, Creative Skiing and Former Alpine Racing | Known for: Whispers, Bucket Clips 4, IFSA ranking, CU Freeskiing

Arapahoe Basin With Spring Water Below

Arapahoe Basin’s Lake Reveal shimmered under June sun, the snow thinning toward water as Faith Stanton and Chloe Hehir pointed their skis into the late-season feature. The clip was not a medal run, a World Cup start, or a polished sponsor segment. It was a better clue to her current ski identity: playful, social, and built around the spaces between freeride, park, college ski culture, and women-led video projects. For a skier whose official record begins in alpine racing, Stanton’s public profile now reads like a slow turn toward creative mountain skiing.

CVA Before The Creative Pivot

Stanton’s official FIS profile places her first in alpine skiing, not freeski. FIS lists Faith Stanton as an American athlete born in 2002, connected with Carrabassett Valley Academy, and currently marked not active in the alpine database. That background matters because CVA and the Sugarloaf environment produce skiers with strong technical habits before they ever move into freeride or park language.

The available record does not support presenting Stanton as a major alpine racer, World Cup freeskier, or X Games athlete. The better reading is developmental. She came through a race-school environment, then later appeared in freeride rankings, college freeski organization, creative edits, and FLINTA-centered film projects. That shift gives her profile a real narrative without overstating the résumé.

Massachusetts Roots And The Maine Mountain Thread

A public CU Freeskiing athlete spotlight described Stanton as from Massachusetts, with Sugarloaf and Sunday River as home mountains. That geography gives the profile an East Coast base. Sugarloaf offers race culture, steep cold groomers, wind, hardpack and a long Carrabassett Valley Academy history. Sunday River adds terrain parks, weekend laps and the New England rhythm of short storms followed by firm snow.

East Coast skiing often produces a specific kind of confidence. Skiers learn to hold an edge on ice, stay balanced when landings are not soft, and keep moving when visibility or snow quality is poor. Stanton’s later move into freeride and creative projects should be read through that background. The foundation is not a powder-first childhood story. It is a technical ski base shaped by Maine and New England conditions.

CU Freeskiing And The Boulder Chapter

The University of Colorado Boulder Freeskiing page lists Stanton as vice president of the club. That detail is important because it gives her public profile a role beyond riding clips. CU Freeskiing sits in one of the strongest college ski environments in the United States, with access to Colorado resorts, park sessions, backcountry culture, and a large social ski network.

A college freeski role also suggests organization: events, riders, communication, trips, media and team structure. For an emerging skier, that kind of position can matter as much as a small result. It places Stanton inside a community that produces footage, connects riders, and keeps skiing active across park, freeride and spring sessions. Her profile is therefore not only athlete-based. It is scene-based.

Whispers Across Colorado, California And Nevada

Whispers, released by Caution Media and covered by Freeskier in 2024, gave Stanton her clearest creative film credit. The short film was created by Ollie Smith and Josh Fairmont, supported by Flylow Gear, and filmed in Colorado, California and Nevada. Stanton appeared in a crew that also included Kaz Sosonkowski, Renner Skidmore, Lander Greenway, Chilli Messner, Dodge Woloson, Zach Staito and others.

The film’s concept focused on the sensations of skiing rather than a loud soundtrack or standard trick reel. That suits Stanton’s current public lane. She is not being documented as a contest specialist with one famous trick. She is part of a younger creative group using terrain, sound, night skiing, wind, light and movement to make an edit feel personal. Whispers gives the page its strongest video anchor.

Bucket Clips 4 And The FLINTA Ski Network

Bucket Clips 4 added another important marker in 2025. Newschoolers described the project as an all FLINTA/female ski movie and listed Stanton among a large rider group that included Drew Hooker, Ellen Damsgaard, Johanna Sellman, Hannah Langes, Tereza Korabova, Laura Wallner, Rosina Friedel, Piper Kunst and many others. The project was produced by Rosina Friedel, edited by Ludwig Hagelstein, and supported by brands including Armada, Peak Performance, CAST, Mons Royale, Eivy, El Tony Mate and Phaenom Boots.

That context matters more than a single clip. Bucket Clips has become a platform for women and FLINTA skiers across street, park, powder and freeride. Stanton’s inclusion places her inside a wider movement rather than only a local college edit. For skipowd.tv, that is useful because it connects her to a documented community with real momentum in modern ski media.

IFSA Lines And The Freeride Direction

The IFSA public ranking pages list Faith Stanton in Ski Women with 2,760 points. That result should be handled carefully. It is not a Freeride World Tour podium, not a Junior World Championship title, and not enough to label her a senior freeride star. It does, however, confirm that her public ski record now extends into judged freeride rather than only alpine or park-based media.

Freeride asks different things from a skier than racing or creative park. It rewards line choice, control, technique, fluidity, air and terrain use. Stanton’s background makes that shift logical. Alpine training gives edge strength and speed discipline. East Coast skiing gives balance in poor snow. Colorado access gives steeper terrain and freeride venues. The current record suggests a skier still forming the identity, not a finished pro profile.

The Technical Picture So Far

Stanton’s public information does not support naming a signature trick, a sponsor pro model, or a fixed competitive specialty. The safer technical read is hybrid. Her profile touches alpine racing, freeride, creative edits, spring features, powder-oriented clips and college freeski culture. The vocabulary should stay grounded: edge control, speed management, drops, natural takeoffs, soft-snow turns, park features, spring slush, line choice and landing discipline.

That restraint helps the page. Many emerging skiers are damaged by exaggerated biographies before their record is ready. Stanton’s story is stronger when it stays specific. She is an American skier with a race-school base, New England roots, Colorado freeski involvement, IFSA ranking visibility, and film credits in Whispers and Bucket Clips 4. That is enough for a focused 2/5 profile.

The Next Public Step

Faith Stanton belongs in the emerging category, not the established-pro category. The confirmed record is useful but still narrow: FIS alpine background, Carrabassett Valley Academy, Massachusetts and Maine ski roots, CU Freeskiing leadership, IFSA Ski Women points, Whispers, Bucket Clips 4, and public spring skiing clips at Arapahoe Basin.

The next factual upgrade would come from clearer IFSA results, a larger film segment, a named role in a full project, or stronger sponsor documentation. For now, her skipowd.tv page should present her as an emerging American freeride and creative skier whose identity is moving from race-school structure into Colorado terrain, women-led ski media and the FLINTA film network around Bucket Clips.