Meghan Tierney (born January 15, 1997)[1] is a two time Olympian American snowboarder. She competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in snowboardcross, and 2022 Winter Olympics, in Women's snowboard cross.[2] [3]
Born in Long Branch, New Jersey,[4] Tierney was raised in Rumson, New Jersey and nearby Little Silver.[5] She began snowboarding at age ten. Her family moved to Edwards, Colorado to allow Meghan and her siblings, Chris, Daniel, and Makayla, to further their snowboarding training.[5] Meghan attended the Vail Ski & Snowboard Academy for her first two years of high school before transferring to the International Snowboard Training Center.[6]
At the Junior level, Tierney placed 4th in snowboardcross at the 2014 FIS Junior World Championships and 15th in snowboardcross at the 2016 FIS Junior World Championships.[7] Tierney is the only US athlete ever to win both the NORAM and Europa Cup Championships. She also took 10th place at the 2016 X-GAMES in SBX.
In November 2016, Tierney fell during a training camp in Austria, breaking the L3 vertebrae in her back. The injury forced Tierney to sit out the rest of the 2016-17 season.[5] Tierney placed 25th and 31st in her first World Cup races of the 2017-18 season. Tierney finished the final World Cup race before Olympic selection in seventh, the top-placing American woman at the event. She was selected to compete in snowboardcross for the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.