Competitor, Innovator, & Inspiration
A member of the first JHSC Snowboard Team, Rob Kingwill’s professional career has taken him around the world for the past 20 years. He moved with his family to Jackson Hole in 1980, where growing up at the base of Snow King gave him easy access to lifts and training. As a competitive pro snowboarder in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Rob was a very successful halfpipe rider and a member of the US Snowboard Team for 8 years. He won the US Open in 1998, 7 FIS World Cups, and 5 Grand Prixs, as well as over 20 career podium finishes, including X Games, Gravity Games, World Championships, Vans Cup, Grand Prix, and US Open events. Rob continues his career as a full-time freerider and big mountain competitor. He won the North Face Masters in Alyeska, AK, and was second at the King of the Hill in Valdez, AK. His continued contribution to the sport includes filming segments for Warren Miller Entertainment for the past 4 consecutive years, founding the AVALON7 mountain lifestyle accessories brand, and running a nonprofit, The Futurepositive Project, which focuses on inspiring kids to play outside. Always pushing the sport forward and increasing participation, he has coached at summer snowboard camps for over 20 years and was the head snowboard coach at the Camp of Champions in Whistler, BC, for 8 of those years. In 2007, he founded the Wednesday Night Lights Rail Jam Series at Snow King Mountain in conjunction with the JHSC.
