{"id":131724,"date":"2026-06-03T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/shaun-whites-snow-league-opening-its-second-season-with-a-team-halfpipe-event-in-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:02:05","slug":"shaun-whites-snow-league-opening-its-second-season-with-a-team-halfpipe-event-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/shaun-whites-snow-league-opening-its-second-season-with-a-team-halfpipe-event-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun White&#8217;s Snow League opening its second season with a team halfpipe event in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Snow League, the halfpipe circuit created by Shaun White, will open its second season with a team event in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The opener will take place Sept. 18-20, the heart of winter in Cardrona, a longtime Southern Hemisphere training locale for action sports stars. It will include four teams from different global regions featuring one male and female snowboarder and freeskier.<\/p>\n<p>The league, which starred <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/olympics-eileen-gu-halfpipe-3060aa71ba70d3c1d47a7e93ce2fc2ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olympic gold medalists Eileen Gu<\/a>, Gaon Choi and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/winter-olympics-snowboard-halfpipe-james-hirano-46315171ce4a6e1ba49e910106f5ba0f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuto Totsuka<\/a> on its first-year roster, will then head to Aspen, Colorado, on Jan. 7-9; Park City, Utah, a 2034 Olympics venue that will feature a halfpipe for the first time since 2019, on Jan. 21-23; and Laax, Switzerland, on March 11-13.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the league awarded $50,000 for first-place finishers. Gu and Totsuka were among the six athletes who earned more than $100,000 in prize money over the season.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP Winter Olympics: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YORK (AP) \u2014 The Snow League, the halfpipe circuit created by Shaun White, will open its second season with a team event in New Zealand. The opener will take place Sept. 18-20, the heart of winter in Cardrona, a longtime Southern Hemisphere training locale for action sports stars. It will include four teams from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5734],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-131724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-associated-press"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131724"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=131724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}