New York Triplets, 17, trains for 2026 Winter -Sos (exclusive)

After becoming the first black triples to serve Eagle Scout rank in the United States, The rivers triplets Seeing an international achievement.

17-year-old sibling AllinaThe Henniyah and Henri Rivers IV of Long Island, new – trains hard in snowy Argentina to qualify for 2026 Winter -Os As an alpine skier representing Jamaica, where their mother comes from.

“My mom came to the United States when she was young, so she obviously didn’t grow up skiing, but she learned to ski when she met my dad,” tells People about her Jamaican mother, Karen and American father, Henri, who are now both certified ski instructors and alpine races trainers.

“We grew up skiing, and we have been skiing since then,” adds Allina, which says that their parents introduced them to snow sports at the age of 1, before the triplets started competing when they were 5 years old. “We’ve loved it.”

Born and raised for seven years in Brooklyn after they were born in August 2007, the triplets quickly discovered snow sports such as snow tub, sled, snowboard and skiing thanks to the parents’ interests.

The trio eventually fell in love with Alpina Racing, became young competition skis and members of the Windham Race Factory and training at Windham Mountain in Catskill Mountains.

“We started in the Children’s Learning Center, learn to ski, get the skis below us and get down the rabbit slope,” reminds Allina. “And then we continued up to the Windham Race Factory and were on that time for a while. We started competing when we were 5.”

“We just continued to move up and up and up as we got older and we have made life -long friends with part of that team too,” she continues. “And that was really what kicked started our racing career.”

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At 14 years, their training schedule was transformed into a six-day commitment at boarding schools that promoted their academic and alpine skiers.

“Without skiing, I don’t really have a whole purpose in life that separates me from other people, do you know? Like, this is my only goal in life,” Henri IV tells people during an exclusive telephone interview from Argentina with his sister Allina and father of the conversation. Henniyah was not available then.

While Trio is working to qualify for Winter -Sos 2026 in Italy, two of them have already represented Jamaica at Olympic youth in South Korea 2024, before graduating from high school in June 2025.

“We have been working on the plan for almost 20 years,” says the triplets’ father, who started skiing when he was 9 years old. “It started before they were born. It could all have been reflected if they did not like snow, if they did not want to ski, because I would not force them.”

“We are almost to the point where they begin to see their abilities exponentially increase,” he explains their skiing ability. “Right now they are decent skiers. They will be so much better skiers and so much better racers over the next few years.”

The father of the triplets continues, “they will be phenomenal racers for many years to come. And we are just really happy that it went like this, you know? But what is the best thing is that they are fantastic individuals. They are really … They are stuck to scouting. They became Eagle scouts. They have all graduated from decent schools.

For their service projects that helped them achieve the Eagle Scout Rang, the triplets made three individual projects to beautify an area.

“My squad is based from Bayshore, and we would also make meetings in Brightwaters, so I was enough for the mayor of the Town Hall and he told me that he has had this flagpole project overlooked for many years,” says Allina. “I decided to replace the flagpole. It was a wooden flag bar that looked like it was about to tip over every second.”

“I replaced it with a 25 feet of fiberglass bar so that it can withstand the weather, rain, all this and does not deteriorate super fast,” she adds.

Allina explained what her siblings did then, “My sister installed paving stones around the flagpole and put in a new cement for the road. And then installed my brother flowers and he installed two benches that look on the street and the flagpole.”