Jenna Blasman is back on the Olympic radar.

The Kitchener snowboarder, who competed at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, has been named to Canada's national team.

"It's wild," she said from her home base in Whistler, B.C. "To have the team behind me means I'll have more professionals taking a closer look at me and trying to help me grow in all aspects of my life."

Canada Snowboard unveiled its 38-member team and 27-rider development group last week, about eight months shy of the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Blasman is one of five women on the slopestyle squad, which is a discipline that has snowboarders racing downhill while completing acrobatic tricks off a series of jumps.

The St. Mary's High School graduate also competes in Big Air, which is a new Olympic event that has competitors performing a single trick off one massive jump.

Blasman wasn't on the national team before the Sochi Games but still managed to snag one of the two spots available for Canadian female slopestyle riders.

She was 13th after the qualification round at the Rosa Khutour Extreme Park, but fell off a jump and slipped off a rail in the semifinals in an all-out attempt to qualify for the medal round.

At just 20, she was one of the youngest competitors on the hill.

"Dropping into that course was the scariest thing ever," she said of her first Olympic experience. "My adrenalin was pumping and I just wanted to do it and have fun."

Blasman has been plagued with injuries since Sochi.

She suffered a concussion in the Czech Republic, tore the medial collateral ligament in her knee at an Olympic test event in South Korea, wrecked her other knee while skateboarding, and is currently dealing with bruised ankles.

"It has been a roller-coaster ride," she said. "Every time I've gotten back on snow I've progressed so much then something happens."

Canada figures to have four Olympic spots in women's slopestyle for Pyeongchang. Because of her injuries, Blasman will have to earn her way to the Games by consistently collecting solid results throughout the upcoming snowboard season.

"It's totally attainable for me," said the 23-year-old. "I'm just going to have to fight for myself."

And Blasman is a scrapper.

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She has been working her body at the gym and in yoga classes almost daily while strengthening her mind through meditation and by talking to a sports psychologist to help get back on track.

"I've been through so much since Sochi," she said. "All these injuries and adversity and ups and downs have taught me so much and I'm grateful for it.

"I have this underlying confidence in myself that I don't think anyone can shake."