Scotty Lago started out on a snowboard back in 1996 at the age of 9 in his hometown of Amesbury, Massachusetts, on a hill designed for tubing. He soon traded the gentle inclines of small kids in blow up rings for the 22ft ice walls of the halfpipe. He proved himself a dab-hand at the ‘hurling yourself at a curved wall of snow and go really high’ game otherwise known as the quarterpipe by winning the World Championships in 2004, and has enjoyed a string of competitive successes since. At the same time, he’s put out banging video parts – not least his impressive sections in the Travis Rice mega-movie ‘The Art of Flight’. Scott will be aiming to make the US team for Sochi in Sochi and with a bronze from Vancouver he’s a highly credible threat. Watch him take 3rd at the US open earlier this year:
