Naomi Urness

Mont-Tremblant, Québec, Canada | Active: 2022-present | Focus: slopestyle, big air, Olympic park and pipe | Current: Freestyle Canada NextGen, Équipe du Québec, D-Structure and Station Mont-Tremblant

Tignes Under Floodlights With The Globe Still Open

Tignes ran under March floodlights, the big air landing polished hard and the night cold enough to sharpen every ski edge. Naomi Urness missed her first jump, then climbed back to the start knowing the Crystal Globe was still on the table. Her second run changed the final: a right double cork 1080 safety, 84.50 from the judges, clean enough to reset the pressure. On her third jump, she landed a switch right bio 1080 mute for 82.25. The total, 166.75, gave her the Tignes World Cup win and the women’s Freeski Big Air Crystal Globe. In one rookie World Cup season, the skier from Mont-Tremblant had turned a first full campaign into Canada’s clearest new big air story.

Mont-Tremblant Before The World Cup Map

Urness’s public biography starts in Québec, not in a distant training center. Freestyle Canada lists her birthplace and hometown as Mont-Tremblant, while Team Canada lists Saint-Jérôme as birthplace and Mont-Tremblant as hometown. The mountain remains the important anchor. Freestyle Canada says she began skiing at age three, stayed in regular lessons until age ten, and moved into freestyle at eleven after following her stepbrothers into the sport. Tremblant’s ambassador page adds the local texture: first hikes, first slides, first jumps, first rails, and the freestyle competition team all came through that resort. The early picture is specific: a Québec skier growing through a home hill, not a manufactured athlete narrative.

From Tremblant Club To Canada NextGen

Freestyle Canada lists Urness as a NextGen slopestyle and big air athlete, national-team member since 2023, and Mont-Tremblant Freestyle Club athlete. That timeline matters because her rise accelerated fast after years of Nor-Am development. FIS records her first major international junior results at the 2022 Junior World Championships in Leysin, where she finished fourth in big air and sixth in slopestyle. Team Canada also notes silver in slopestyle and fifth in big air at the 2023 Canada Winter Games. Those results formed the base before the World Cup leap. They showed two things early: she could score in both disciplines, and her ceiling in big air was already visible before the senior circuit arrived.

Nor-Am Repetition Before The Break

The FIS sheet shows the grind behind the sudden 2025-26 breakthrough. Urness stacked Nor-Am podiums from 2022 through 2025: Stoneham, Copper Mountain, Calgary, Aspen, Mammoth, and other stops appear repeatedly on her results page. In March 2025, she won Nor-Am slopestyle at WinSport Calgary, placed second in big air the next day, then won Nor-Am slopestyle at Mammoth and placed second in Mammoth big air. That sequence mattered because it came shortly after her first World Cup start in Stoneham, where she finished thirteenth in slopestyle on home snow. The jump from Nor-Am consistency to World Cup podiums did not come from nowhere. It came from repeated starts, repeated finals, and repeated course changes across North America.

SuperUnknown At Mammoth Before The Podiums

Urness also entered the video-driven side of freeskiing before the medals arrived. Freeskier listed her among the women’s finalists for Level 1 SuperUnknown 21 at Mammoth Mountain in 2024, alongside Liv Cull, Evelyn Mullie, Isabella Tvede-Jensen, Shiori Takahashi and Josephine Howell. That setting matters because SuperUnknown tests a different kind of skiing than Nor-Am. Riders spend six days in Mammoth Unbound, sharing park laps with a heavy crew and trying to stand out through clips, style, line choice and adaptability. For Urness, the appearance gave an early public glimpse of a skier who could operate in both scored competition and freestyle culture, rather than only inside federation start lists.

Secret Garden, Beijing And Steamboat In Three Starts

The World Cup breakthrough came with unusual speed. Team Canada says Urness reached the podium in her first three FIS World Cup big air events: second at Secret Garden in China, third in Beijing, and then first in Steamboat, Colorado. FIS confirms the same sequence and adds that Steamboat was her maiden World Cup victory. The detail that stands out is the compression. Many skiers need years to turn qualification starts into finals, then finals into podiums. Urness entered the 2025-26 big air season and immediately looked comfortable with the format: short start, one major jump, no rail section to recover from, and every trick judged under maximum visibility.

Aspen When The First X Games Run Held

X Games Aspen 2026 gave Urness her first medal outside the FIS structure. She opened the Jeep Women’s Ski Slopestyle final as an X Games rookie and set the early standard on the first run. X Games reported that Kirsty Muir won gold, Urness took silver, and Mathilde Gremaud earned bronze. Team Canada also lists a fourth-place finish in X Games big air that same winter. The Aspen slopestyle silver widened her profile because it came in a different pressure culture. X Games does not feel like a Nor-Am or World Cup stop. The judging, cameras, invitation field and athlete reputation all compress into one weekend. Urness handled that stage before making her Olympic debut.

Livigno Olympic Finals In Two Disciplines

At Milano Cortina 2026, Urness reached both Olympic finals at Livigno. Team Canada lists sixth in women’s freeski big air and seventh in women’s freeski slopestyle, while FIS records the same final results. Those placements are the reason her rating moves to 4/5. She did not medal, but an Olympic top seven in both major park-and-pipe freeski events is not a minor result. Big air rewarded her strongest current weapon: large, clean, contest-ready jumps. Slopestyle asked for the fuller package: rails, jumps, speed control, landing consistency and run construction. Reaching both finals confirmed that her season was not only a big air streak.

How Urness Builds Height And Calm

Urness’s technical identity is still developing, but the verified trick evidence gives a clear outline. FIS described her Tignes win through a right double cork 1080 safety and a switch right bio 1080 mute. Social and broadcast coverage around Beijing also pointed to switch right bio 1080 work. Those tricks show the current base: strong pop, double-cork air awareness, switch takeoff comfort, mute and safety grab discipline, and enough landing absorption to stay composed after a missed first run. In slopestyle, her results suggest the supporting tools: rail approaches, left and right rotation management, full-run speed, and the ability to avoid letting one feature break the rest of the course.

D-Structure, Station Mont-Tremblant And The Québec Support System

Freestyle Canada lists D-Structure and Station Mont-Tremblant as Urness’s sponsors. That support picture is modest compared with the global brand structures around older Olympic medalists, but it fits her current career stage. D-Structure has long been part of Québec freeski culture, while Station Mont-Tremblant connects her back to the hill that shaped her first park years. Tremblant’s ambassador page also notes that she studied in Montréal while traveling for training and competitions with the Québec team. That balance helps explain the pace of her rise: home resort, provincial system, national team, Nor-Am circuit, SuperUnknown, World Cup, X Games, Olympics, then Crystal Globe in less than two full senior seasons.

The Crystal Globe Changes The Next Start Gate

Urness ended the 2025-26 Freeski Big Air World Cup season with 340 points, 100 ahead of runner-up Anni Karava, after four straight big air podiums and two wins. The next concrete chapter is already set by results, not speculation: more World Cup big air starts as the Crystal Globe holder, slopestyle starts after an Olympic seventh place, X Games invitations after Aspen silver, and Canada team selection pressure alongside athletes such as Megan Oldham, Elena Gaskell and Skye Clarke. Her profile is no longer only “rising.” It is measurable: Olympic finalist, X Games medalist, World Cup winner, and Big Air Globe winner from Mont-Tremblant.