2025 Snow Australia Awards – Female Athletes of the Year
Mountainwatch |Press Release
The 2025 Snow Australia Awards recognise the achievements of athletes across the 2024/25 season and here we recognise the Female Athletes of the Year in Olympic Disciplines.
The discipline winners are now nominated for the overall Female Athlete of the Year – Olympic Disciplines, which will be presented at the 2025 Snow Australia Awards in Melbourne on Thursday 1 May – Click here to purchase tickets.
Snowboard Park & Pipe Female Athlete of the Year (Slopestyle/Big Air) – Tess Coady
Olympic bronze medallist Tess Coady’s comeback from injury limited her to just a pair of World Cups. However, fourth and sixth place finishes at those events showed she still has what it takes to be a threat at Milano-Cortina 2026.
Competing at her fourth World Championships, Tess’s best result came in slopestyle where she finished 12th.
Snowboard Cross Female Athlete of the Year – Josie Baff
Josie Baff continues to establish herself as one of the world’s leading athletes in Women’s Snowboard Cross. Josie added three more individual World Cup podiums to her growing collection on her way to fourth place on the overall standings.
She also finished second in the Team event in Montafon with Adam Lambert and scored a World Cup victory with Cam Bolton in Turkey.
Snowboard Park & Pipe Female Athlete of the Year (Halfpipe) – Amelie Haskell
A Winter Youth Olympian in 2024, Amelie made her World Cup debut in December and recorded a highly-impressive 13th place finish at just her second event at that level.
She also scored a Nor-Am Cup podium with a third place at Mammoth Mountain and now has three World Cup starts to her name.
Snowboard Alpine Female Athlete of the Year – Millie Bongiorno
Photo: Snow AustraliaMillie finished the season sixth on the overall Nor-Am Cup standings after four races in six days returned two victories, a third and a fifth place.
She also scored two top 10s at European Cup level and a top five FIS result at a race in Italy. Millie also competed in 17 World Cups to surpass 50 starts over her career, with nine top-30 results.
Alpine Skiing Female Athlete of the Year – Madi Hoffman
After creating Australian Alpine Skiing history last season by being the first Aussie female to score World Cup points in more than two decades, Madi Hoffman was set for another big campaign.
A strong start to her World Cup season was complemented by three podium finishes at the Panorama Nor-Am Cup races in Canada including a Giant Slalom first.
Unfortunately, injury cruelled Madi’s campaign, forcing her into a double knee reconstruction which she continues to rehab in her attempt to qualify for her first Winter Olympic Games next year
Cross Country Skiing Female Athlete of the Year – Rosie Fordham
Rosie Fordham will forever be remembered for her performance at the 2025 Under 23 World Championships where she achieved an Australian Wintersports first.
Never before had an Australian stood on a cross country podium at a major event, however Rosie changed all that in Italy when she finished second in the 10km Freestyle.
She backed up that form at the 2025 World Championships where she contested every event, helping Australia to historic top 15 results in the Team Sprint and Women’s Relay, on top of a top 20 finish in the 50km Freestyle.
Freeski Park & Pipe Female Athlete of the Year – Abi Harrigan
Abi Harrigan skied strongly throughout the season, however the biggest moment of her career arrived at the Tignes World Cup in March.
Having already claimed her first-ever World Cup top 10 at Stubai in November, Harrigan qualified sixth in Slopestyle at Tignes before skiing her way to a silver medal. Abi’s performance was Australia’s first World Cup podium in women’s Freeski Park & Pipe since 2013.
Freestyle Aerials Female Athletes of the Year – Laura Peel & Danielle Scott
Australia’s Aerial Skiing campaign in 2024/25 was one of the true highlights of the season, and it was unsurprising led by its two most experienced campaigners.
Laura Peel was dominant on the World Cup circuit, consistently landing the most difficult jumps of anyone in the women’s field to win five out of seven events. Those results saw Laura lift her third career Crystal Globe, and her first since 2021.
Two-time defending Crystal Globe Champion Danielle Scott started her campaign with victory in the Grand Prix event in Brisbane and continued to impress as the season rolled on, standing on four World Cup podiums to finish third on the overall standings, before claiming bronze at the 2025 World Championships.
Between them, Laura and Dani have now claimed the Women’s Aerials Crystal Globe across five of the last six seasons.
Freestyle Moguls Female Athlete of the Year – Jakara Anthony
After her record-breaking campaign last season, Jakara Anthony was again quickly out of the blocks with a silver medal in Ruka followed by her 23rd career World Cup win at Idre Fjäll.
A shoulder injury brought a premature end to Jakara’s campaign, however she still remains the athlete to beat when she defends her Olympic Gold Medal next February.
Ski Cross Female Athlete of the Year – Kyra Wheatley
Kyra’s European Cup season was incredibly consistent with four top 15 finishes, however her season highlight was making her World Cup debut in Val di Fassa.
Across two races over two days, Kyra finished 13th and 14th after qualifying for the quarter-finals to achieve the highest FIS points in her career. Kyra was due to join Liam Michael at the 2025 World Championships before a knee injury ended her season
Ski Mountaineering Female Athlete of the Year – Lara Hamilton
Lara Hamilton had a breakthrough season, with exceptional results in all SkiMo disciplines. Lara was 21st in the Individual event at the World Cup in Arinsal, 44th in the Sprint in Boi Taull, and an impressive 13th in the Vertical event in Schladming.
At the World Championships Lara was 21st in the Mixed Relay with Phil Bellingham, 19th in the Vertical and 41st in the Sprint
