Meet & Greet Reception with Olympian Lila Lapanja at Rec Center

Name: Meet & Greet Reception with Olympian Lila Lapanja at Rec Center
Start: 2026-04-19T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-04-19T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Incline Village Recreation Center

Apr 19, 2026 | 1PM - 4PM

Incline Village Recreation Center

Lila Lapanja is our local homegrown Olympian who represented Slovenia at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy. She’s back in the U.S. and will do a Meet & Greet event at the Incline Village Recreation Center Bocce Courts.

Date: Sunday, April 19
Location: Bocce Courts @ Incline Village Recreation Center (980 Incline Way)
Time: 1:00pm – 4:00 pm (If it is chilly, the event will be inside the Rec Center lobby and end at 3:00pm)

Lila’s Local Legacy

Lila grew up on the slopes of Diamond Peak Ski Resort, first learning to ski before she was two when her parents scattered Easter eggs around the bunny slope and challenged little Lila to pick them up while wearing skis. She fell in love with the sport quickly and ultimately found a supportive environment with the Diamond Peak Ski Team as her junior ski racing career took off.

Lila began her professional ski racing career on the U.S. Ski Team, winning four U.S. National Championship titles along the way. After years of competing on the World Cup, Europa Cup and NorAm race circuits as an independent racer from the U.S., she switched affiliations to ski for her father’s home country of Slovenia two years ago, with the goal of qualifying for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Recent success on the Europa Cup ski racing circuit this winter led to her inclusion in the Slovenian Alpine Skiing Olympic team – a dream she has fostered from a very young age.

“Hopefully, people will remember me as not only one of the best athletes to come out of our town,” Lila said, “But also how this place shaped my values, recognize how amazing of a feat that is in such a small place, and be proud that we live in an area with the resources to raise champions of all kinds.”