6'3"
29
Fort Collins, CO
Baylor University; Colorado State University
Hunter Powell grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he played multiple sports in high school, competing in cross country, wrestling and track and field. Powell finished his college career at his hometown school, Colorado State University, where he was the conference champion in indoor heptathlon and outdoor decathlon in 2019.
Powell competed in track and field through the 2024 season, when he made the switch to bobsled, recruited by monobob world champion Kaysha Love. By the end of his rookie season, Powell would compete at the 2025 IBSF World Championships for Team USA in both the two-man and four-man Bobsled, finishing in the top 10 in both events.
At the Olympic Winter Games Milan Cortina 2026, the sliding sports — bobsled, skeleton, and luge — will be held at the new Cortina Sliding Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The facility opened to sliding this fall. It’s located in Cortina d’Ampezzo, 257 mil...
Kaysha Love remembers her first track walks as a bobsled pilot on the IBSF World Cup tour. She only had one season under her belt in the driver’s seat — after spending her first two seasons in the sport as a brakewoman. And she had never heard the term...
The first time U.S. bobsledder Azaria Hill raced down the famed track located in Lake Placid, New York, she thought it “wasn’t that bad.” But there was one small issue with her line of thinking. That run began from the non-Olympic starting point. “On t...
The 14-year-old finished 18th in the men’s monobob event this week in his Winter Youth Olympic Games debut.
It is a golden opportunity for more than 1,800 teenage athletes from 78 countries to gain invaluable life experience and further their athletic pursuits, all of which may serve as a launching pad to greater sporting endeavors as they compete at the Win...
