Ariel Picton Kobayashi

Ariel Kobayashi grew up in Washington, Connecticut, and learned to ski jump at the age of nine in Salisbury, Connecticut. As the jumping coach at Salisbury Winter Sports Association from 2016 to 2020, she accompanied eastern jumpers to the Junior Nationals in Chicago and Anchorage and spearheaded a major upgrade to the twenty-meter ski jump in Salisbury. Ariel worked in the ski industry in Alta, Utah; Squaw Valley, California; and the Mad River Valley in Vermont before returning to college,...See more

Ariel Kobayashi grew up in Washington, Connecticut, and learned to ski jump at the age of nine in Salisbury, Connecticut. As the jumping coach at Salisbury Winter Sports Association from 2016 to 2020, she accompanied eastern jumpers to the Junior Nationals in Chicago and Anchorage and spearheaded a major upgrade to the twenty-meter ski jump in Salisbury. Ariel worked in the ski industry in Alta, Utah; Squaw Valley, California; and the Mad River Valley in Vermont before returning to college, graduating summa cum laude from SUNY Purchase with a degree in history. Her senior project, which was the backbone of this book, received the Richard Maas Prize in American History. See less