Meet Bea Kim

Bea is a force to be reckoned with. A fashion aficionado. A surfing and skateboarding savant. Yet it is snowboarding where this petite powerhouse of a young lady sails, flies, flips and rips. 

Having won countless titles and currently on the Mammoth Elite Team, Bea has her sights on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina Italy.

A family that boards together stays together. Bea and family split their time between The Hill and Mammoth.  Together they have traveled as far as New Zealand and Europe for the off-season to keep her training seamless; and are regular road-trippers to Copper Mountain in Colorado. Homeschooled for the last two years, her teammates are as much her classmates as her best friends. A typical weekday for these young Olympic hopefuls starts at 8:00 am with strength training, on the mountain 8:30 – 1:30, rounding out the day with trampoline training, yoga or mental training.

In a sport where there is three-times fewer girls Bea is laser-focused on being a part of the US National Team. Sponsored by Sims Snowboards, Flux Bindings, Tortoise Pads and The Hundreds, Bea hopes to one day inspire other young girls, “I don’t see myself as a role model yet, but I would love to be one when I get older. it would be so cool to inspire young girls to do what they love.” she says.

There is no denying the talent and passion Bea has for the sport, but she wants to make it clear that she does not want snowboarding to strictly define who she is. We asked her to choose one word to describe herself and she chose, unique. She seeks out thrift stores over the mall, has a wicked fashion sense, dry sense of humor, level head, unlimited loyalty to those around her and the utmost respect and recognition of her parents support of her.

With her Winter Olympic hopes only five years away, we say “Let It Bea, Let It Bea!”