Ty Walker (snowboarder)
{{Short description|American snowboarder (born 1997)}}
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| birth_name = Taylor Riley Walker[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418055731/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/ty-walker-1.html Ty Walker at Sports Reference]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1997|3|3}}
| birth_place = Smithtown, New York, U.S.
| education = Bachelor of Sciences
| alma_mater = Brown University
| occupation = Professional Athlete
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| country = United States
| sport = Snowboarding
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| coach = Bill Enos, Dave 'Danger' Boldwin
| retired = Retired
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Taylor Riley Walker (born March 3, 1997) is an American snowboarder, better known by her childhood nickname Ty Walker.
Born in Smithtown, New York, and living in Stowe, Vermont, United States, she competed for United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Later that year, Walker also won the first-ever World Cup for Women's Big Air snowboarding, an event that made its debut in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Taylor still holds the record as being the youngest Red Bull sponsored athlete in history. Walker entered Brown University in the fall of 2015 and graduated as a member of the class of 2020. During her time at Brown she studied biology with a focus on pre-medical studies.{{cite web| url=http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-ty-walker| title=Ty Walker| publisher=www.sochi2014.com| accessdate=7 February 2014| archive-date=6 April 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140406223503/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-ty-walker| url-status=dead}}{{cite web | url=http://ussnowboarding.com/athletes/ty-walker | title=Ty Walker | publisher=US Snowboarding | access-date=7 February 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208023631/http://ussnowboarding.com/athletes/ty-walker | archive-date=8 February 2014 }}
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External links
- {{FIS snowboarder|166217}}
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Category:American female snowboarders
Category:Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Category:Olympic snowboarders for the United States
Category:Sportspeople from Smithtown, New York
Category:Sportspeople from Vermont
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:21st-century American sportswomen
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