Kate
Delson
Kate Delson is a Para snowboarder who has been based in Utah since November 2023 and now lives in Park City, riding for Team Utah. At her first Paralympics, Milano Cortina 2026, she won gold in banked slalom and silver in snowboard cross, and in 2025-26 she won the overall World Cup title. She is on the A team of the 2026-27 U.S. Para Snowboard Team.
Who is Kate Delson?
Kate Delson from San Diego, California competes in Para snowboard (LL2) for the U.S. Para Snowboard Team. Paralympic gold (banked slalom) and silver (snowboard cross), Milano Cortina 2026; 2025-26 overall World Cup champion; seven World Cup wins
San Diego to Park City
U.S. Ski & Snowboard prints Delson's hometown as San Diego, California. She started skiing at 3 and switched to snowboarding at 6 at Mammoth Lakes, the Park Record reported. She has been based in Utah since November 2023 and moved to Park City, where she trains at the U.S. team's Center of Excellence, works at the National Ability Center and rides at Woodward Park City, by the same account. U.S. Ski & Snowboard lists her club as Team Utah Snowboarding.
She competes in the LL2 class. Team USA describes a congenital disability causing significant muscle weakness in multiple muscles of her right leg.
A first Paralympics with two medals
At Milano Cortina 2026 she won silver in snowboard cross on March 8, behind France's Cécile Hernandez, after being knocked down in her semifinal and getting back up to finish second. Five days later she won the banked slalom with a best run of 1:02.99, a little over half a second ahead of the Netherlands' Lisa Bunschoten-Vos, with U.S. teammate Brenna Huckaby taking bronze, FIS reported. Read the full profile story.
World Cup
U.S. Ski & Snowboard counts seven World Cup wins and 17 World Cup podiums. In 2025-26 she clinched the overall title and the Lower Limb snowboard cross title, FIS reported, and U.S. Ski & Snowboard says she won all three Crystal Globes. She was second in snowboard cross at the 2025 World Championships in Big White, Canada.
The 2026-27 season
U.S. Ski & Snowboard named her to the A team of the 2026-27 U.S. Para Snowboard Team on Oct. 9, 2026. The World Cup season opens at Landgraaf, Netherlands, on Nov. 26-27, 2026, and the World Championships are at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada, in March 2027. She is one of the Utah athletes followed on the Utah 2034 Olympics hub.
At a glance
Event
Para snowboard (LL2)
Hometown
San Diego, California
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Key achievements
- Paralympic gold, banked slalom SB-LL2, Milano Cortina 2026 (March 13, 2026)
- Paralympic silver, snowboard cross SB-LL2, Milano Cortina 2026 (March 8, 2026)
- 2025-26 overall and Lower Limb snowboard cross World Cup titles, per FIS; all three Crystal Globes, per U.S. Ski & Snowboard
- Seven World Cup wins and 17 World Cup podiums, per U.S. Ski & Snowboard
- Silver in snowboard cross at the 2025 World Championships, Big White, Canada
- Named to the 2026-27 U.S. Para Snowboard Team A team (Oct. 9, 2026)
Official sources
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- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: 2026-27 Toyota U.S. Para Snowboard Team announced (Oct. 9, 2026)usskiandsnowboard.org
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Kate Delson athlete pageusskiandsnowboard.org
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: 2026-27 Toyota U.S. Para Snowboard Team nominations (May 6, 2026)usskiandsnowboard.org
- Team USA: Kate Delson profileteamusa.com
- FIS: Home joy for Luchini, Perathoner; USA's Delson, Elliott take Paralympic banked slalom gold (March 13, 2026)fis-ski.com
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- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Delson, Elliott take silver in Paralympic snowboard cross (March 8, 2026)usskiandsnowboard.org
- FIS: Fahrni, Delson dominate Big White SBX World Cup (Feb. 2, 2026)fis-ski.com
- Park Record: Park City's Kate Delson thrilled to have competed in her first Paralympics (April 3, 2026)parkrecord.com
- FIS: 2026-27 para snowboard calendarfis-ski.com
What each source confirms
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: 2026-27 Toyota U.S. Para Snowboard Team announced (Oct. 9, 2026)
- Read 2026-10-31 in a browser: A Team, women: 'Kate Delson (San Diego, CA; Team Utah Snowboarding; 5/5/2005)'; season opens at Landgraaf; World Championships at Mont-Sainte-Anne.
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Kate Delson athlete page
- Read 2026-10-31 in a browser: hometown San Diego, CA; club Team Utah; seven career World Cup wins, 17 career podiums; 2025 World Championships (Big White, Canada) 2nd in snowboard cross, 6th in banked slalom.
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: 2026-27 Toyota U.S. Para Snowboard Team nominations (May 6, 2026)
- Won 'all three Globes' in 2025-26.
- Team USA: Kate Delson profile
- Read 2026-10-31: classification LL2 (Lower Limb 2 Impaired); a congenital disability causing significant muscle weakness in multiple muscles of the right leg.
- FIS: Home joy for Luchini, Perathoner; USA's Delson, Elliott take Paralympic banked slalom gold (March 13, 2026)
- Best run 1:02.99; won by just over half a second; Bunschoten-Vos's second run took the lead from Delson by two-tenths before Delson's 1:02.99; Lisa Bunschoten-Vos (NED) silver; Brenna Huckaby (USA) bronze; race moved a day earlier for weather.
- U.S. Ski & Snowboard: Delson, Elliott take silver in Paralympic snowboard cross (March 8, 2026)
- Silver behind Cécile Hernandez (FRA); taken out in the semifinal by Eri Sakashita (JPN) and kept going to finish second; youngest athlete on the U.S. team.
- FIS: Fahrni, Delson dominate Big White SBX World Cup (Feb. 2, 2026)
- Clinched the 2025-26 Lower Limb snowboard cross and overall titles.
- Park Record: Park City's Kate Delson thrilled to have competed in her first Paralympics (April 3, 2026)
- Based in Utah since November 2023, recently moved to Park City; trains at the U.S. team's Center of Excellence, works at the National Ability Center, rides at Woodward Park City; skied from 3, switched to snowboarding at 6 in Mammoth Lakes.
- FIS: 2026-27 para snowboard calendar
- Read 2026-10-31: Landgraaf Nov. 26-27, 2026; World Championships Mont-Sainte-Anne March 16-22, 2027.
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