Skip to content
MEET OUR ATHLETES
Click on their profile picture below for more
The EpIc Athletes:
Consists of individuals from across the world with truly diverse and unique skill sets that make them epic!
AJ LAWSON
Snow/Mountain Boarding
Denver, CO
AJ Lawson is a snowboarder, mountain boarder, youtuber, and entrepreneur. He is co founder of Nu Food, a plant-based snack company out of Denver, CO.
He has a youtube channel called "New Friends on a Pal Day". He was co-host of The Not Snowboarding podcast and he's downright hilarious.
Nicole evans
Aerialist
Lake Tahoe, CA
Hi, I’m Nicole Evans, a 21 year old yogi, climber, and aerialist.
Since 2020, I have taught yoga and aerial silks at various studios working with a wide range of students from children, to those with disabilities and elderly people. Additionally I have committed to my own training and doing aerial silks in more extreme environments like off of highlines, bridges, spacenets, and climbing routes. Extending my love for aerials and the environment.
Chris Leiferman
Triathlete
Truman, MN
My older brother was racing mountain bikes and really loved the sport and pulled an old trek frame out of the dumpster and built it up, gave it to me, signed me up for a triathlon and told me to start training. I raced an indoor tri in Mankato MN and won my first race and the rest is history. Filtered water just simply tastes better but is also clean and safe. It's hard going to different cities and parts of the world and not knowing the quality of tap water. So just erring on the side of filtered water with Epic Water Filters is necessary. I actually get upset now when I see wasted single use plastic bottles. It makes zero sense to use plastic bottles for personal consumption. There is the easiest way to drink water and that’s with the filter and a Nalgene.
Anthony Walsh
Surfing
Oahu, HI
I grew up by the beach but no one in my family surfed. One of my parents friends gave me a board because I was interested in it and they didn’t surf anymore. Fun fact I still have this board too. Having filtered water is important for not just my health, but my families health too. The water coming from the tap has so many chemicals and getting single use water bottles is not sustainable for our planet.
Dan Darby
Wingsuit/Skydiving
DeLand, FL
I started skydiving the day after I turned 18, after years of wanting to get into it. I signed up for a course that teaches you the basics, then jumped with my own parachute and two instructors holding on to me, giving hand signals to correct my body position, before opening my own parachute and flying myself to the ground.
Grant Giller
Snowboarding
Evergreen, CO
I grew up as a competitive slope style rider before transition to a fully film project based rider. That doesn't mean I won’t catch a contest every once and a while!
I grew up as the son of national park service engineer, so sustainability was introduced to me at a young age. When I started snowboarding it hit home even harder. Feeling the need to protect the earth that brings me so much joy became a priority. While snowboarding isn’t a inherently environmental friendly activity it’s important to me to make contributions in other ways to off set your activities. Eliminating single use plastic is one the easiest and cheapest ways to do it!
Gunnar Gronowski
Skiing
Akron, OH
I grew up skiing park at a small hill there. I now live in a Sprinter van home basing in Colorado where I get to ski and paraglide some of the best parks and big mountains in the world!
With the mountains being my playground, I am driven to keep them in the best possible condition for as long as possible! It’s just terrible to be in a beautiful zone and come across an old plastic water bottle or other trash, just one of the reasons I think everybody should have an epic water filter!
Jordan Bryden
Triathlete
Canmore, AB
I train with a professional triathlon team based out of Boulder, Colorado. I am the current Ultraman World Champion who has fully embraced the “van life” lifestyle when it is too cold in the Canadian Rockies to train effectively. Having a sprinter van full of wasteful plastic bottles (that are often hard to recycle properly) is both wasteful and inconvenient! Epic Water Filters has made hydrating properly on-the-go a breeze with his in-van water dispenser.
Osmond Taylor
Cliff Jumping
Lake Tahoe, CA
My name is Osmond Taylor, I am a Professional Cliff Jumper located here in Lake. Tahoe Ca, I am 17 years old and what brought me really to cliff Jumping was the fact I grew up along the river in a little town called Washington, Ca. On the weekends my friends and I would go out exploring the Yuba River and jump off cliffs for fun, but once I started getting more into the cliff jumping community I found out that there's people that do it for a living and make it more of a professionalized hobby. So I followed along and kept grinding on the cliffs and at my hometown spots, until I reached where I am now!