Lucia Georgalli

Lucia learnt to ski when she was seven years old at Cardrona Alpine Resort. Her older brother Oscar was a snowboarder, so Lucia quickly swapped to snowboarding and from then she was hooked.

After a few seasons partaking in the local school skiing and snowboarding programme, Lucia joined the Cardrona High Performance Centre, having a breakthrough season in Europe in 2022/23, where she claimed a third place finish at the hotly contested LAAX European Cup Premium Slopestyle competition. She followed this result up with the win at the World Rookie Tour snowboard slopestyle finals. 

Lucia carried her momentum into the 2023 New Zealand season, where she was victorious at the 2023 FIS Park and Pipe World Championships, crowned the snowboard slopestyle Junior World Champion, the first Kiwi snowboarder to ever win this title. 

She will compete in snowboard slopestyle and big air at Gangwon 24.