Name: Zachary Miller
Sport: Snowboarding
Event(s): Banked Slalom, Snowboardcross
Classification: SB-LL2
Height: 5-8
DOB: 3/10/1999
Birthplace: Denver, Colo.
Hometown: Silverthorne, Colo.
High School: Homeschool Abeka Academy (Pensacola, Florida) ‘17
College: Devry University, Information Technology
Team/Club: Adaptive Action Sports
Coach(es): Daniel Gale
Paralympic Experience
- One-time Paralympian (2022)
- Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, 11th (snowboardcross), 15th (banked slalom)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2023 – gold (banked slalom team), silver (dual banked slalom)
- Years of participation: 2019, 2021, 2023
- Medals: 5 (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze)
- Gold – 2023 (banked slalom team), 2021 (dual banked slalom)
- Silver - 2023 (dual banked slalom)
- Bronze – 2023 (snowboardcross), 2019 (snowboardcross)
Personal:
Zach was born with cerebral palsy and he discovered snowboarding through the hospital sports program at the Children's Hospital in Denver...Son of Michael and T.R Miller...Zach has one sibling, Josh...Hobbies include gaming, riding motorcycles and clay target shooting...Zach describes himself as a massive nerd, huge gamer and insanely competitive...His favorite thing about snowboarding is how fast he can go and Zach's most memorable sporting moment was his becoming World Champion in Lillehammer...Zach's sporting idol is the Formula One racing driver, Max Verstappen...In the summer of 2022, Zach will be managing an all-adaptive e-sports program based in Copper Mountain (Colorado) ...He will be organizing events and training adaptive gamers to compete in international tournaments hosted by Logitech...Zach's nickname is Zatch Milar after his coach intentionally mispronounced his name.
