Seth Morrison, Bio

Born: 30th November, 1973

Home: Murray, Kentucky

If you believed his nickname, you'd think there was nothing special about “The Ordinary Skier”. But Seth Morrison is anything but ordinary. To him, skiing is more than just a sport, and more than just a job. It's a whole way of life.

Seth emerged from the middle class outskirts of the Windy City, Chicago, but instead of taking the obvious career path of windsurfing, he found himself on the slopes of the Colorado Rockies and at the forefront of the emerging Freeskiing movement.

Seth's story is one of resilience and determination. The Freeskiing movement was formed by a group of misfit skiers who wanted to take their sport in a more expressive direction. Once the sport of the athletic elite, skiing today is a creative discipline where the whole mountain is the canvas and the only limits are self-imposed.

Through years of focus and hard work, Seth made his name by throwing himself over huge cliffs and backflipping off things that would make most people flee in fear. He's survived avalanches, super-fast vertical descents and even a helicopter crash. All in a days work for The Ordinary Skier.

Seth Morrison makes the extraordinary look like the ordinary. That's where Seth and Oakley see eye to eye.

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Career Highs

2009 Powder Video Awards: Winner of Best Natural Air, Reader Poll and Full Throttle awards
2008 Powder Video Awards: Winner of Reader Poll award, Fri Flyt Awards - International Athlete
2007 Powder Video Awards, Winner of Best Natural Air and Reader Poll award
2006 Powder Video Awards, Reader Poll- Third Place
2005 Powder Video Awards, Reader Poll- Second Place
2004 Powder Video Awards, Winner of Reader Poll and Best Cliff Huck awards
2003 Powder Video Awards, Winner of Full Throttle, Reader Poll awards
2002 Powder Video Awards, Winner of Reader Poll award
2001 Powder Video Awards, Winner of Best Male Performance award and Poacher's Freeski Film Festival Best Rider award, Competitor in U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships
2000 Competitor in Johnny Moseley Invitational. NBC
1999 - 8th place in X Games Skier Cross, 12th place in Johnny Moseley Invitational. NBC
1998 - 9th place in the Canadian Freeskiing Championships in Whistler/Blackcomb
1991 - 2nd place in the U.S. National Extremes (age 19)