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X Games Ventura Athlete Profiles

A collection of profiles, stories and backgrounds on some of our top athletes set to compete at X Games Ventura 2024 presented by SONIC.

Brady Baker

Ever leave your homework behind because you had sports on the brain? As a kid, Brady Baker spent every morning before school ensuring his BMX equipment was in his backpack. “I forgot my textbooks a lot,” he says with a laugh, “but I always squeezed in my pads"...

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Shiloh Catori

How do you debut at X Games by age 14? Having a dedicated mom can help. Shiloh Catori made it look easy at XG California 2023, finishing a surprising 2nd in Women’s Skateboard Street Elimination before taking 5th in the Final as her supportive mom cheered...

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Gui Khury

At X Games Ventura 2024, Gui Khury aims to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Tony Hawk’s original 900 in style: by bringing a world-first kickflip body varial 900 to Vert Best Trick...

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Nyjah Huston

Nyjah Huston is a fun follow on social media. There he is, rolling up to Coachella with a crew of stylish women. Then he’s DJing with Diplo at a house party -- HIS house party, and in gorgeous Laguna Beach. One minute he’s in Vegas, the next he’s doing donuts in his newly modded-out BMW M8 or riding a dirt bike over rugged trails...

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Reese Nelson

Reese Nelson is like a lot of 11-year-olds. She and her younger sister, Stassi, play with Barbie and American Girl dolls. Reese and her big brother, Nash, spend hours on Minecraft. She likes breakfast burgers. She’s also the youngest-ever medalist at X Games and is poised to make more history at X Games Ventura 2024. THE Tony Hawk has taken Reese under his, um, wing. So much for being like a lot of 11-year-olds…

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Kevin Peraza

At their San Diego townhome, BMX star Kevin Peraza and his wife Itsel Martinez Peraza like to keep their windows open so they can hear the neighborhood kids playing in the streets. To Kevin and Itsel, it’s the sound of joy...

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Colby Raha

Few people outside the world of freestyle motocross knew who Colby Raha was in the spring of 2017. He was working two jobs but still broke as a joke, pouring dollars earned swinging hammers into his love of freeriding...

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Hannah Roberts

Buchanan, Michigan, seems an unlikely place to produce a five-time BMX Park world champion and Olympic medalist. But that’s where Hannah Roberts grew into a star. The youngest of four sisters, Hannah, now 22, was inspired by her cousin Brett Banasiewicz, one of the top BMX riders at the time...

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Arisa Trew

Australia’s Arisa Trew made history on May 29, becoming the first woman skateboarder to land a 900. It’s been a wild 12 months for the teen. She enjoyed the best X Games of any 13-year-old ever in 2023, earning gold medals in Women’s Skateboard Park AND Skateboard Vert. That smashed a record Shaun White set 20 years ago as the youngest to win two gold at one X Games and made Arisa the first female skateboarder to do the double. Oh, and she also used the first 720 in a woman’s vert contest for a dramatic walk-off victory.

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Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams was sick as a dog when he arrived in Ventura during X Games California 2023. He felt much better leaving X Games with three medals, including two gold. It was one of the best performances by a BMX athlete in X Games history...

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X Games Ventura Athlete Profiles

Brady Baker

Shiloh Catori

Gui Khury

Nyjah Huston

Reese Nelson

Kevin Peraza

Colby Raha

Hannah Roberts

Arisa Trew

Ryan Williams

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