{"id":804759,"date":"2020-02-29T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T01:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379794"},"modified":"2020-02-29T18:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T01:35:32","slug":"peak-performers-nominee-ethan-swadburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/peak-performers-nominee-ethan-swadburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak Performers nominee: Ethan Swadburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/EthanSwadburg-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/EthanSwadburg-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220.png 514w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/02\/EthanSwadburg-PeakPerformers-SDN-0220-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\"><figcaption><strong>Summit County local Ethan Swadburg honed his skills with the Hawks Freeride team and has won multiple Aspen Snowmass Freeskiing Opens.<\/strong><br \/><em>Summit Daily file<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: Readers nominated their all-time favorite Summit County athletes for Peak Performers: The Mount Rushmore of Summit County athletes. Voting is live until March 7 at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/summitdaily.com\/peakperformers\">SummitDaily.com\/peakperformers<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nominee<\/strong>: Ethan Swadburg<br \/><strong>Sport<\/strong>: freestyle skiing<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Springs born-and-raised skier moved to Summit County at the age of 14. Swadburg credits his first full winter skiing the Breckenridge Ski Resort terrain parks for his ability to advance his skills immensely.<\/p>\n<p>Immersing himself in the Summit ski community and looking up to Summit County rippers like Adam Delorme, Pat Goodnough and Clay Bryant, Swadburg soon was competing for wins at competitions and opening eyes at events like SuperUnknown XII at Carinthia Parks in Vermont, which opened up filming opportunities for the young skier.<\/p>\n<p>At a young age, the Dillon resident and Team Hawks freeski alum found success both in contests and filming. On the contest scene, he won back-to-back Aspen Open slopestyle championships in 2016 and 2017. He also took first place overall for the U.S. Revolution Tour slopestyle division in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>For Level 1 Productions, Swadburg has taken part in the ski films \u201cHabit,\u201d \u201cPleasure,\u201d \u201cRomance\u201d and \u201cZig Zag.\u201d And Swadburg\u2019s also starred in several of the Strictly crew\u2019s recent acclaimed ski flicks, most recently Strictly\u2019s new movie \u201cWelcome,\u201d which reaffirmed that Swadburg is one of the world\u2019s best skiers in the air right now.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/peak-performers-nominee-ethan-swadburg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summit County local Ethan Swadburg honed his skills with the Hawks Freeride team and has won multiple Aspen Snowmass Freeskiing Opens.Summit Daily file Editor\u2019s note: Readers nominated their all-time favorite Summit County athletes for Peak Performers: The Mount Rushmore of Summit County athletes. Voting is live until March 7 at&nbsp;SummitDaily.com\/peakperformers. Nominee: Ethan SwadburgSport: freestyle skiing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 06:05:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}