Nitro Snowboards got a good one.
Bozeman, Montana native Iris Pham has joined the team. The news was hinted at earlier this year, but made official in a release from Knut Eliason on January 24, 2025.
“We are honored and proud to welcome one of the most progressive, stylish, and friendly snowboarders we have seen in a while, Iris Pham, to our global snowboard team,” Nitro said in a press release. “Iris has been on our radar for a few years now, and we are so excited that Iris has joined our Nitro Snowboards family.”
Pham will be riding in the X Games Street Style event on Saturday. Pham won the Street Style Pro event at Copper Mountain in January to secure her spot.
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Pham has been a rising star in the snowboard world as of late. She was a 2024 nominee for Slush the Magazine’s Rookie of the Year, and released a self-produced video part called Rocky Mountain Iris. This season, she joined the team at The North Face, and until now, rode for Never Summer.
Pham will compete in the X Games streetstyle event with fellow Nitro riders Alexis Roland, Miyabi Onitsuka, Patrick Hoffmann, Zenja Potapov, and Marcus Kleveland.
Pham is currently filming with other Nitro riders for an upcoming team movie, Nitro said in a press release.
Pham grew up riding at Bridger Bowl, and transitioned to nearby Big Sky Resort as she got older. She told Mark Clavin in a Snowboard Mag interview that she skied until the age of 9, and grew up riding alongside skiers in the park. She was invited to Red Bull Heavy Metal in Duluth, Minnesota, and will be back there at the beginning of February for this year’s iteration of the rail jam.
In November, Pham appeared in the Slush film Bittersweet: An Exploration of Dreams along with Desiree Melancon, Egan Wint, Seb Picard, Katie Kennedy, Darrah Reid-McLean, and Bode Merrill. She landed the opening part in that film, kicking things off by back-lipping a kink rail, ollieing a roadside guardrail, and front boardsliding a gnarly s-rail.
She also is a tried-and-true van-lifer. A life funded through her snowboarding. Pham won The Bomb Hole’s Dogfight rail jam in Salt Lake City In 2022, and used her winnings to buy a 2017 Ram ProMaster 1500. Since then, she’s taken it to surf in Santa Cruz, river surf in Boisie, Idaho, and more.
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