Good morning on this sunny, then cloudy, Friday.

Long before she became an Olympian, Morgan Schild was carving the slopes of Bristol Mountain near Rochester, elevation 2,150 feet.

At 9 years old, she entered her first mogul skiing completion there.

“I got dead last,” she said. “But I loved it. I loved the diversity of skills you needed and I love that you get to add your level of personality to your run.”

By the time she was 15, Ms. Schild was known on the mountain as “War Paint.”

“One of my coaches saw how silly I was around the competition but when I stepped into the gate, the war paint came on; I became very focused and serious,” she said. “The second I finished I was back to my goofy self.”

The 20-year-old freestyle skier from the Rochester suburb of Pittsford is one of 19 New Yorkers competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, which start today.