She’s only 18, but Eileen Gu—Olympic freeskiing hopeful, two-event 2021 X Games gold medalist, ambidextrous spinner, accomplished runner, high-end model, feminist, aspiring diplomat—is in a car in the heart of the Alps, making a rolling transition between a month of halfpipe training in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and several weeks of jumps camp on the Stubai Glacier in Austria. It’s late October. Gu is trying to describe how she fills her day—this, from an athlete who is one of the very few women in the world who excels at all three freeskiing disciplines (pipe, slopestyle and big air) in a sport where most elites find it grueling to train for just one. So far this fall, she’s taken classes on micro- and macroeconomics. She listens to astrophysics lectures. She reads quantum mechanics textbooks on set. “When I dropped into X Games last winter, everybody else’s announcement was like, ‘This is so-and-so, Olympic medalist!’ ‘This is the first person to land this trick!’” says Gu. “And my little bio was, ‘Eileen Gu! Got a 1580 on the SAT and was admitted to Stanford!’”