Nash Wenner, a sophomore at MMI Preparatory School, competed in a national snowboard event in Colorado this week.

Wenner, the son of Darren and Tracy Wenner of Palmerton, ranked 55th nationally in his category and qualified to compete in the boardercross event in the 25th annual United States of America Snowboard Association's National Championships, a World Snowboard Tour four-star event, at Copper Mountain, Colo.Nearly 2,000 snowboarders took part in the competition, which includes boardercross, superpipe, slopestyle, slalom and giant slalom snowboarding events.The competitions are broken down by gender, age, snowboard/ski and series. Wenner competed with snowboarders in the 14/15 Young Men age group for the Mid-Atlantic Series.He has been snowboarding for five years and this year joined the Blue Mountain Freeriders, a competitive ski/snowboard team at Blue Mountain Ski Area & Resort that enters local, regional and national freestyle competitions. Wenner entered four competitions this season, competing in both slopestyle and boardercross events. By his third competition, he placed third in boardercross and received a bronze medal. At his fourth competition, he placed second and received a silver medal.The Nationals Championships events ended with a special Exhibition Banked Slalom event. Featured riders in the Banked Slalom were Olympic medalists Lindsey Jacobellis and Ross Powers.