Rome Snowboards has a New Addition to the Am Team: Noah Coville

In April, Rome Snowboards added Noah Coville to their am team. The Waterbury, Vermont-based brand brought Noah in for his chill style, great attitude, and award-winning smile, among countless other priceless traits. Noah is a Vermont boy through and through. Born and raised in the Green Mountains, from third grade onward he has been boarding with his brother and friends around VT, slowly turning into a steel-munching ripper. Get to know the kid and how he came to be put on by one of snowboarding's biggest players over the course of 11-and-a-half holes of golf. (We didn’t keep score.) – Ely Campeanu

*Overlooking the first tee at Cedar Knoll Golf Course.*

How’d you start snowboarding and when?
I think I was 9 years old. I started snowboarding because of my friend Josiah. His dad was super into it and he brought us, for my first time, to Jay Peak. Me and my brothers fell in love with it and basically started going every weekend.

What got you into filming street snowboarding?
The first time we ever filmed any street snowboarding was with Zebadaih Cousins-Joyce [editor’s note: yes, that is the homies real name], in Montpelier. He kind of introduced us to that side of snowboarding. I got to hit a couple spots with Josiah and him. The first time we ever got a camera and started filming was not until probably sophomore year of college.

Was there something that prompted you to get a hold of a camera? Was there something that made you guys think, All right, we’re doing this ?
I feel like just having access to a camera through the UVM snowboard team was part of that. We were just drawn to it. We were watching more edits and started paying attention to that stuff. It was definitely a little late to the party, but we just went out, me and Micah, started filming stuff, and took it from there.

Better late than never. Has it always been a goal to make a career out of snowboarding or has it just come about naturally?
I feel like I have never really had that outlook. But at the same time, I’d be lying if I said it wouldn’t be awesome to get paid to snowboard. But my whole goal has been to make cool videos with my friends that we like to watch and just keep things simple.

I probably already know the answer to this, but do you think you’ve come close to filming what you would want in a video part?
It’s definitely still out there. I don’t think I’ve ever filmed a true part. We have kind of filmed more montage videos. This year is probably the first year I have filmed enough clips to make a full part. But the short answer is no, I definitely want to film a part that’s well-rounded and that I am super proud of. But we will see if that happens?

I definitely think it will. What would the dream song for that part be?
I don’t think I have one, actually.

What!? You don’t have a song that you think, This has to be in an edit ?
Honestly right now, I’m kind of in the midst of starting to edit our video from this year and I am struggling with music. I don’t think I have an answer, haha.

Did you pick the Mitski song for last year?
No, Micah actually showed me that song.

Well, it slapped.

*Catching Noah about to tee off the 5th hole.*

What’s your favorite street part? You have to answer before you swing.
Give me a second. Favorite street part. Probably…. I would say Jake Kuzyk in Landline., but besides that, I love all of Jake Gaudette’s parts in the Book Club videos. Any Tommy Gesme part, especially when Colton Feldman’s filming, which is most of them. But the top one has to be Kuzyk in Landline. I have just watched those raw files so many times and watched the part so many times. His snowboarding is just so clean and effortless. It’s just nice to watch.

What’s your favorite board to ride on the Rome line right now?
I’ve been riding the Freaker and I like that a lot.

Who are your favorite people to ride with?
Definitely my brother Micah, Derek Conti, Skoot, Yoni, Josiah. I don’t know, there are so many homies it’s hard to name them all. Everybody at Bush.

What impact has riding at Sugarbush had on your snowboarding over the years?
Sugarbush has had the biggest impact on my snowboarding out of anything, for sure. We grew up riding Smuggs, Jay Peak, and places that didn’t have the greatest parks. Then the first time we went to Sugarbush, everything changed. It was so eye-opening seeing how good everyone was there. Just learning so much from just watching people from the chairlift. It definitely sparked our whole interest in learning park and street snowboarding soon after.

Is that where you met Max Lyons?
I didn’t necessarily meet him there, but definitely came to know him and the whole Burlington community because of Bush.

Did you meet him because of the snowboard club at UVM? I heard he was the coach and he cool-guyed you back in the day.
Haha, no Max was just probably a little quieter, and so was I, and we just never really got to talking.

I’m just giving you shit. I just heard from Micah that he was the coach and so I asked Max if he remembered you and he said, “He was on the team?”
Bro, come on. You know what, fuck Max. He totally was cool-guying me. Ha. I definitely thought Max was the shit when I was younger (still is the shit). The first time I saw Max, he ollied over the entire Catfish rail at Sugarbush and I thought, Who is that guy with the bleached hair who went so large? He’s so lanky, man.

What’s a must-have trick in a video part you need to film?
Definitely a frontboard through a kink rail.

What!? You’ve never done one on video?
No. I tried this year and broke my ribs. Probably shouldn’t have started with a double kink. I almost got it. I thought it was going to happen.

That’s dreaming big, though. How are the ribs now?
They’re good. I was out for about a month.

You have some pretty chill steeze. Would you credit how you ride to skateboarding?
I don’t know. Style is something you can’t really control that much and when you try to force style, it’s obvious. Growing up, I remember times where my snowboarding didn’t look good and it was probably because I was trying to look like someone else. I appreciate you saying that about my style, because I don’t think it looks that good.

I feel like it's a trademark for someone who skates to bash their board onto the rail or have less hesitation, in general.
And just little stuff like slappies and little cool things that translate from skating.

Has Rome Snowboards always been on your radar coming up? It’s a local brand, so I assume it’s been part of your life for a while.
The first snowboard company I knew about was probably Burton, and then I remember Josiah got a Rome and it had such a sick graphic. That was when I was really young, probably sixth grade. I think shortly after that I realized it was a VT brand and that made me fuck with it more.

How did you start getting boards from them?
I definitely got to a point where I started breaking boards, just needing more than one board a year, in general. Max would just either give me boards or sell me a board for twenty bucks. So, I was just getting boards from him or his old boards for a couple years. Thanks, Max. Then Max and Devin Bernard [Rome filmer] plugged me up and started getting me boards from Rome and that’s how it’s been since then.

Was it a surprise you just got on the Am Team!?
I think it was more getting on the street trips and going to Side Hit Séance, that was more my introduction into being a part of Rome and hanging out with everybody. I got invited to film with them this whole year and was definitely surprised when the welcome video dropped, but they had made me feel like I was already part of the family there.

I would’ve been happy to get any kind of flow situation to get boards to hit spots and get after it. I am so grateful that it worked out the way it did with Rome. I feel like not a lot of people get the opportunity to have that relationship with their brand. Everything makes it so easy and so nice.

Having teammates around like Joey Leon is huge, too.
Yeah, shout out to him, too. I wouldn’t be here without him. Gotta throw it back to his videos. Spotheads totally inspired us to get out there and film videos. It’s really nice that we all get along so well. It’s nice to have community around you that is making different videos, but all are down to support each other and understand each other.

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