Staff Spotlight: Parker Gray ~ Freeride Events Coordinator

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 18, 2026

If you want to understand the soul of the SSEF Freeride program, start with Parker Gray. As our Freeride Event Coordinator and IFSA Certified Technical Director, Parker has worn more hats at Snowbasin than most people can count — athlete, coach, administrator, pioneer — and has been doing it for going on 27 years.

Back in 2014, Parker saw something others didn't yet see: that the mountains at Snowbasin were a world-class venue for competitive freeride skiing, and that the youth of Weber County deserved access to that world. He built the program from the ground up, launching what was originally called the Big Mountain Team — the direct predecessor to the SSEF Freeride program that exists today. That founding vision, rooted in terrain, community, and a deep love for the sport, still shapes everything the program does.

“Parker was instrumental in bringing IFSA competition to Weber County — putting Snowbasin on the map as a legitimate freeride destination and giving our athletes a pathway to the international stage right in their own backyard.”

— SSEF on Parker Gray

As an IFSA Certified Technical Director, Parker oversees the technical standards and event operations that make SSEF's freeride competitions among the most well-run in the region. It's a role that requires deep knowledge of venue design, safety protocols, athlete management, and IFSA regulations — all of which Parker has mastered across years of hands-on experience at every level of the sport.

What makes Parker's story unique is the arc of it. He came up through this program as an athlete, grew into a coach, stepped into administration, and never left. Twenty-seven years is not a tenure — it's an endowment of service to the program. The Freeride program exists because Parker believed in it before it had a name, and the athletes who progress through it every season are the direct beneficiaries of that belief.