The just-launched professional winter sports league has a brand-savvy founder in the former Olympian Shaun White. Attendees at the first event held Friday and Saturday at Buttermilk at Aspen Snowmass watched the competitors race down the mountain,

At the debut competition in the legend’s Snow League startup, snowboarders envision a future that includes sustainable careers.

This week in Aspen marks the debut of Shaun White's Snow League. It's a four-contest circuit that the retired three-time Olympic gold medalist hopes can alter the trajectory of halfpipe snowboarding.

The Snow League, Shaun White’s new professional halfpipe league, debuts Friday, March 7, 2025 at Buttermilk in Aspen. The league features a $1.6 million prize pool. Each event will give $370,000 to the winners,

Launching a new sports league is never easy, but Snow League has a more impressive pedigree than most — its founder is Shaun White, who holds a number of records in snowboarding. (He’s also long had a foothold in the skateboarding world.

Snow League’s inaugural series returns in December 2025 with a stop at Secret Garden, China, followed by a return to Aspen’s Buttermilk and the finale in Switzerland. Halfpipe skiing will be added to the lineup moving forward, according to White.

First Event Begins This Friday, March 7, at 11:30 a.m. ET Exclusively on Peacock; Encore Presentation on NBC on Saturday, March 29, at 1 p.m. ET

A new kind of halfpipe contest, the Snow League is Shaun White’s brainchild and Aspen was given the first chance to showcase what he hopes will be the future of the sport.

He retired from competition after the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, but now he’s on a mission to transform the sport in a different way. He has founded a new tour for halfpipe snowboarders and freeskiers called The Snow League, debuting this weekend in Aspen, where he dominated the Winter X Games from 2003 to 2013.