Pro-athlete moms are next level. There’s no other way to look at it. Back in the day, most women believed they had to choose between career and family. There was societal pressure to prioritize motherhood, and many women faced losing sponsorships, contracts, and income if they stepped away from competition. Luckily, society and sport have evolved, and today, there are more professional-athlete moms than ever before.
This Mother’s Day, we wanted to highlight the incredible working moms in surf and snow. They’re proving that women can continue to pursue their dreams – and rep a brand – while starting families. And sponsors have definitely stepped up, supporting female athletes through pregnancy and postpartum. They’re reward? Fans are celebrating the dedication and drive to send. Here are 10 inspiring moms who absolutely shred.
Carissa Moore
It was big news when five-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist Carissa Moore announced she was stepping away from the Championship Tour. It was possibly even bigger news when she announced her pregnancy, with the math-savvy among us deducing that she competed in the 2024 Olympics at Teahupo’o during her first trimester. Less than a year after the birth of her daughter, ‘Olena Lililehua Untermann, Moore announced that she would be returning to the CT for 2026. Heading into the season, she entered the HIC Haleiwa as her first official contest postpartum and finished second. A couple of weeks later, she competed in the Florence Pipe Pro where she secured a win, a good omen of things to come for the world champ. She’s currently in the Championship Tour’s top 10 after three events.
Lexi Dupont
Lexi Dupont has spent the entirety of her life dedicated to the mountains. She’s skied through injuries, trained through illness, and has generally made steep-skiing part of her life’s work. And it’s paid off. She’s one of the first people to make descents in the Arctic Circle in Svalbard, Norway, as well as southeastern Alaska. She competed in the Freeride World Tour, and she’s been featured in numerous Warren Miller films.
In October of 2024, she announced via Instagram that she was pregnant, and although she planned to continue to ski, she would also prioritize her body. At 31 weeks, she skied from the top of the Aiguille du Midi down the Valley Blanche in Chamonix, France, one of the longest ski runs in the world. In May of 2025, she welcomed her daughter, Marli Jade Montee, into the world. Less than a year later, she released a film, Mother on the Mountain, sharing her experience skiing through pregnancy and motherhood.
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Honolua Blomfield
Honolua Blomfield is a longboarding legend. When it came to competing, pregnancy, and motherhood, the three-time world champ didn’t miss a beat. Blomfield competed pregnant the majority of her 2024 season, finishing third despite secretly dealing with fatigue and morning sickness. Blomfield welcomed her son, Reign LaʻakealuʻukaiāewaLāhainā Kreiner, into the world in April of 2025. Just six months after giving birth, Blomfield took the win at the Surf Abu Dhabi Longboard Classic, with her son in the stands. The Hawaiian rounded out the season in fourth.
Tatiana Weston-Webb
If you follow surfing, then you’re no stranger to the name Weston-Webb. Not only has she been a standout on the Championship Tour since her rookie season in 2015, but she also won silver in the 2024 Summer Olympics. In March 2025, Weston Webb withdrew from the CT, stating mental health as the reason. In August, she announced that she was expecting her first child. Throughout her pregnancy, the Brazilian took to social media to share videos of her surfing, big belly and all. In February of 2026, Weston Webb gave birth to her daughter, Bia Rose. One month later, she shared a video on Instagram of her first session back. She has yet to announce if she plans to return to competition, but we have no doubt surfing will continue to be a big part of her life, and likely, her daughter’s.
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Jamie Anderson
Jamie Anderson is one of the most decorated snowboarders of all time. She is the most successful female X Games snowboarder in history: Anderson has a whopping 21 X Games medals, the most of any woman and the second most of any athlete ever. In addition to her X Games victories, Anderson is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, a big air silver medalist, and a five-time EPSY Female Action Sports Award winner. She also has 11 World Cup Wins and eight U.S. Open wins, amongst others.
In 2023, Anderson took a step back from competition to start a family. That year, she welcomed her first daughter, Misty Rose, and in 2025, her second daughter, Nova Sky was born. Anderson spent three years focusing on motherhood and her family, but in 2025, she began training once again. In January 2026, Anderson had a bad fall during a competition in Aspen and just missed qualifying for the 2026 Olympic team. Despite the setback, Anderson is actively working to return to competition, proudly, as a mom.
Sage Erickson
Sage Erickson has been a competitive surfer since she was 14. She was a standout on the NSSA and Pro Junior circuits, and when she was 21, she qualified for the Championship Tour. Her most notable surfing accomplishment being a two-time US Open of Surfing champ. In July of 2025, Erickson announced that she was pregnant, and in December, she gave birth to her son, Elijah (Eli) David Norris (son to former big-league pitcher Daniel). These days, Erickson surfs for the love it, alongside her family, with a few contests sprinkled in here and there.
Elyse Saugstaud
Alaska born and bred skier Elyse Saugstaud has had a far-reaching ski career. Saugstaud grew up skiing, and by 16, she was one of the best downhill racers in the United States. Since, she’s been at the forefront of professional skiing – experiencing both the good, and bad, of the profession. In 2008, she became the Freeride World Tour champion. In 2012, the Alaskan survived an avalanche in Tunnel Creek that killed three people at Stevens Pass, Washington, crediting an airbag for her survival. After, she became a huge advocate for avalanche safety and regularly holds avalanche safety clinics. In 2021, Saugstad embarked on an entirely new adventure: motherhood. Two years later, Red Bull released the film Here, Hold My Kid, following Saugstaud and Jackie Paaso as they navigated motherhood and professional skiing.
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Kimmy Fasani
Kimmy Fasani is no stranger to hard work. She started skiing when she was just two and took up snowboarding at nine. At 15, she became the USASA National Slopestyle Champion for three years in a row and decided to graduate high school early to focus on her athletic career. In 2011, Fasani made history by becoming the first woman to ever land a double backflip in both park and powder. In 2016, she was awarded Rider of the Year and Video Part of the Year by both Snowboarder and Transworld SNOWboarding.
In 2018, Fasani embarked on motherhood. Throughout her pregnancy and beyond, she advocated for women in action sports to be able to maintain sponsors and their careers while starting families. In 2020, Fasani welcomed her second son. Just nine months after giving birth, she was diagnosed with stage three inflammatory breast cancer. She underwent chemo, a double mastectomy, and 30 rounds of radiation. After completing treatment, she returned to competition in 2023 and placed third at The Natural Selection Tour. In 2025, Fasani released a documentary entitled Butterfly in a Blizzard, which offers a glimpse into her life while balancing loss, trauma, motherhood, and her breast cancer diagnosis. Today, she is focused on helping others through public speaking, mentoring, and her and her husband’s nonprofit, The Benchetler Fasani Foundation.
Barrett Christy Cummins
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more legendary female snowboarder than Barrett Christy Cummins. Christy Cummins started snowboarding in 1991, and by 1998, she was a member of the first U.S. Snowboarding team in the 1998 Winter Olympics. She’s one of the most decorated X Games winners of all time. Barrett was featured in three game-changing women’s snowboarding films: Our Turn (2001), Hardly Angels (2002), and Float (2007), and as Nike-sponsored snowboarder, her trailblazing went beyond the slopes and into the realm of professional athletics.
On top of being a pioneer for women’s snowboarding, Christy Cummins is also a proud mom of two. Both her kids snowboard, and today, Cummins works as GNU Snowboards women’s program manager, and her B-Pro signature snowboard line continues to be one of the best-selling women’s boards of all time. In 2025, Christy Cummins was inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, an honor that was certainly justified.
Hilaree Nelson
Hilaree Nelson is one of the greatest ski mountaineers to ever strap boots on. She spent her career making some of the most audacious ascents and descents in the history of the sport, including the “Dream Line” on the Lhotse Couloir in 2018, that put a stamp on her career. Oh, and not to mention she was the first women to summit two 8,000 meter peaks in one perilous 24-hour push in 2012 (Lhotse and Everest).
This was all after she fought to make sure mothers could still pursue their dreams as sponsored athletes. Nelson actually took pay cuts after she became pregnant with her second son because she was afraid the industry would drop her altogether. But she kept fighting, and after her double summit in 2012, things changed. The outdoor industry changed, embracing her journey as a mother and a mountaineer.
“I look back now and know that a big part of my struggles early on were that I was willing to acquiesce,” she wrote for The Inertia in 2019, “it was me undervaluing myself. As a North Face team captain now, I have female athletes asking me, ‘Am I not doing this right? Should I be doing this?’ Knowing the individuals, it’s such bullshit. ‘Come in hard,’ I tell them. ‘Do what you do, and go for it.’ That is a problem I’d like to see us change. Women need to stop underselling themselves. Stop acquiescing and know that if you’re out there, pushing the limits, then you’re worth it.” Sadly, Hilaree died making a ski descent on Nepal’s Manaslu in 2022.
