Ryan Max Riley (born May 15, 1979) is an athlete who competed on the World Cup for seven years and was a two-time US National Champion as an athlete on the U.S. Ski Team in the freestyle skiing events of moguls and dual moguls.
Riley earned a spot on the U.S. Ski Team in 1998, when he won the overall Nor-Am Cup in Moguls. On March 14, 1998, he competed in his first World Cup, in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, and placed 14th. He got his first top-5 result on the World Cup the next season, finishing fifth in Dual Moguls in Madarao, Japan, on February 21, 1999 (he placed sixth the day before in Moguls). A week later, he won the silver medal at the Junior World Championships in Jyvaskyla, Finland.[1]
Riley placed second in a World Cup in 2002 in Madarao, Japan, and won silver and bronze medals at the Goodwill Games in 2000.[2]
He is a 2-time U.S. National Champion in moguls. He won his second U.S. National Championship with one of the highest scores in the history of the sport (a 28.55) in Moguls in 2001 in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire.[3]
In his last three years on the U.S. Ski Team, Riley attended Harvard University, graduating with his A.B. with high honors in Literature in 2007. While in college, Riley was a humor writer for The Harvard Lampoon, a humor magazine and humor society founded in 1876 at Harvard University. Following this, he attended The Queen's College, Oxford, where he earned an M.St. in Medieval and Modern Languages with distinction in 2011, winning the Gerard Davis Prize for the best dissertation on a topic in French literary studies. He then completed his M.A. in French Literature at Yale University.[7][8]
Since 2015, Riley has owned The Distillery at Greylock WORKS, a cocktail bar and distillery in North Adams, Massachusetts. Located in an old, 19th century red-brick historic mill, the Distillery makes locally-foraged cocktails and spirits like Forager Gin, using botanicals gathered in the local mountains and forests of the Berkshires.[9][10]
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