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| Full name | Ryan Max Riley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1979-05-15)May 15, 1979 (age 46) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Bachelor of Arts, Masters of Arts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Harvard University,University of Oxford,Yale University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | humorist,athlete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Genre | Humor,literary fiction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable works | The Harvard Lampoon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Freestyle Skiing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ryan Max Riley (born May 15, 1979) is an athlete who competed on the World Cup for seven years and was a two-time US National Champion as an athlete on theU.S. Ski Team in thefreestyle skiing events ofmoguls anddual moguls.
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 Ryan Max Riley winning bronze at Goodwill Games in freestyle skiing moguls in 2000 |
Riley earned a spot on the U.S. Ski Team in 1998, when he won the overallNor-Am Cup in Moguls. On March 14, 1998, he competed in his first World Cup, in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee,Austria, and placed 14th. He got his first top-5 result on the World Cup the next season, finishing fifth in Dual Moguls in Madarao,Japan, on February 21, 1999 (he placed sixth the day before in Moguls). A week later, he won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in Jyvaskyla,Finland.[1]
Riley placed second in a World Cup in 2002 in Madarao,Japan, and won silver and bronze medals at theGoodwill Games in 2000.[2]
He is a 2-time U.S. National Champion in moguls. He won his second U.S. National Championship with one of the highest scores in the history of the sport (a 28.55) in Moguls in 2001 inWaterville Valley,New Hampshire.[3]
In 2000, he was featured in theWarren Miller filmRide.[4]
Riley grew up inColorado, graduating in 1997 from theLowell Whiteman School inSteamboat Springs and training on the freestyle teams atWinter Park Resort and theSteamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, both of which have produced many U.S. Ski Team athletes and winter Olympians.[5][6]
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| Ryan Max Riley's winning run at US Champs in freestyle skiing moguls in 2001 |
In his last three years on the U.S. Ski Team, Riley attendedHarvard University, graduating with his A.B. with high honors in Literature in 2007. While in college, Riley was a humor writer forThe Harvard Lampoon, a humor magazine and humor society founded in 1876 atHarvard University. Following this, he attendedThe Queen's College, Oxford, where he earned an M.St. in Medieval and Modern Languages with distinction in 2011, winning the Gerard Davis Prize for the best dissertation on a topic in French literary studies. He then completed his M.A. in French Literature atYale University.[7][8]
Since 2015, Riley has owned The Distillery at Greylock WORKS, a cocktail bar and distillery inNorth Adams, Massachusetts. Located in an old, 19th century red-brick historic mill, the Distillery makes locally-foraged cocktails and spirits like Forager Gin, using botanicals gathered in the local mountains and forests of theBerkshires.[9][10]
