Blake Eaton

Quick Facts

• Specialty: Para Alpine Skiing (Sitting) — LW10-2 Classification
• Hobbies include outdoor recreation and competitive sport across multiple disciplines
• Started skiing at age four, wanting to join his brothers on the slopes
• High school track and field champion in wheelchair events

Biographical Information

Born with spina bifida, Eaton grew up in Proctor, Minnesota, a small community outside Duluth. Blake began skiing at just four years old through Courage Kenny, later transitioning to Northland Adaptive Recreation. By age eight, he transitioned into a mono-ski which unlocked a new level of independence on the hill. By his early teens, he was competing at national development camps in Colorado and Vermont. He joined Team Duluth, the region's largest alpine ski development program for able-bodied youth skiers and snowboarders, as the only mono-skier on the team.

Blake's competitive nature extended beyond skiing. At Denfeld High School, he became a six-time Minnesota State High School League track and field champion in wheelchair events. Blake also competed in sled hockey and played wheelchair softball. He graduated from Denfeld High School in 2022 and committed to elite Para alpine skiing training at the National Ability Center's High Performance Alpine Team in Park City, Utah, while also pursuing his education at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Eaton competes in the LW10-2 sitting classification, which covers athletes with minimal control in the upper abdominal muscles and no function in the lower abdominal muscles. His development on the FIS Para alpine circuit has been consistent and accelerating: three national championship podiums, 10 FIS Para alpine podiums, and three top-12 finishes on the Europa cup circuit. In January 2026, he finished second and third in multiple giant slalom and super-G FIS Para alpine races in Winter Park, Colorado, and followed with a fourth-place slalom result on Feb. 13, 2026 in Park City, Utah.

Those results earned him a nomination to the U.S. Paralympic team for the Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, his first Paralympic appearance and the culmination of a development arc that began just a few years after he left high school.