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Coaches And Staff Richard Rokos 5-6 Jana Weinberger 7 Austin Caldwell 8 Stefan Hughes 8 Skiing Support Staff 9 Regents/Administration 10 Personnel History 11

4 2020 SKIING @CUBuffsSkiing 513 All-America Honors • 85 Olympic Appearances • 15 National Ski Hall of Fame Members HEAD COACH RICHARD ROKOS

Eight NCAA Championships 15 NCAA West Regional Championships 236 All-Americans 43 Individual National Champions Richard Rokos and Colorado Though he has been notified on nine different occasions that Skiing. Now entering his 31st he was the selection for the RMISA coach of the year, the last time season as the University of for 2015, Rokos declines the honor for personal reasons, mainly Colorado’s head coach and that he doesn’t believe in the philosophy and that the student- his 35th overall at the school, athletes deserve the credit. He has been named the United States you can’t think of one without Collegiate Ski Coaches Association National Coach of the Year on the other, not to mention that five occasions, last in 2015. the combination has been One of Rokos’ greatest accomplishments since taking over synonymous with success. the program has been turning what was once essentially an When he was promoted individual sport, pulling divergent skiers—men and women, Nordic to head coach on July 3, and Alpine, into a team event at CU. Prior to his arrival, the two 1990, the process to return a units rarely saw each other prior to the national championships, program that was eight years removed from an NCAA title back as they trained and raced separately. But it was his philosophy, to national prominence took its first step. Twenty-five seasons, to be an educator as well as a coach, to understand the physical eight national championships, 42 individual champions and 225 and psychological significance of a student-athlete and to All-Americans later, it is once again the premier ski program in the introduce harmony and mutual support that has made it a more nation. unified program. Credit Rokos himself for the strong camaraderie Rokos, 70, is the 11th and longest tenured head coach in CU because there is very little that he asks of his skiers that he doesn’t ski history, has guided Colorado to eight NCAA titles, claiming the do himself. That includes 6 a.m. ice hockey games, off-season crowns in 1991, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2011, 2013 and 2015. dryland training, mountain bike rides from Boulder to Winter Park In addition, his Buffaloes have won individual titles (43 total) in and back, hiking Pikes Peak, playing soccer and rollerblading 19 different years. That first team title came in his first season as through Boulder. head coach, a unique accomplishment in any sport, and served as Rokos, who also coordinates all alpine aspects of the program, a bookend for the school as it came on the heels of CU’s first in was already very familiar with the CU ski program upon his hiring, football. as he was promoted from alpine coordinator to the post. He served Only two coaches in CU history coached their teams longer one season (1989-90) in that role under his predecessor as head than Rokos has been at the reins of the ski team: Frank Potts coach, Tim LaVallee, and was the head coach of Colorado’s Alpine (41 seasons, cross country and track) and Charles Vavra (32 “B” Team for the two years prior to joining the varsity staff (1987- seasons, men’s gymnastics). In 2019-20, Rokos surpassed Les 89). With Rokos tutoring the alpine skiers, the 1990 team finished Fowler and Mark Simpson, both of whom coached the men’s third in both the West Regional and the NCAA championships, team 29 seasons. Rokos’ teams have qualified for the NCAA with one individual national champion in the latter. Championships 29 times, the second most by any coach in school Rokos brought to CU a great amount of racing and coaching history. experience. He competed in his native home of Czechoslovakia He has also coached the Buffs to 14 Rocky Mountain and internationally for 19 years before beginning his coaching Intercollegiate Ski Association (RMISA) titles, events that also career with the Czechoslovakian Junior National Team in 1977. serve as the NCAA West Regional, as well as 11 runner-up finishes. The year prior to joining the junior national team, Rokos graduated His skiers, alpine and Nordic, have posted 345 top 10 finishes from the University of Masaryk with a masters’ degree in physical at the NCAA Championships; that total includes 146 first-team education, his emphasis in his diploma work was the use of ski All-Americans, with 42 earning two-time single-year All-American slopes with artificial surfaces for slalom and giant slalom practice. mention, and 93 second-team All-Americans. In 1969 he earned his bachelor’s degree in Academically, the skiers have boasted grade mechanical engineering from the College point averages that are always at or near the of Machiner. He has additional course work top of all of CU’s 17 varsity sports programs, in Prague (Level II International Coaching often in excess of 3.5. His teams have placed License), Colorado State (athletic training) and 311 student-athletes on the NCAA Skiing All- the University of Colorado (special education). Academic Team, the equivalent of Academic Leaving the Czech national team in 1980, All-America. Rokos went on to coach at several ski schools Under Rokos, the Buffaloes have won 73 in Austria before finally coming to the United of 183 meets they have skied in, including States to coach at the Grampian Mountain the eight NCAA crowns and the 14 RMISA Ski School in Michigan the following year. He Championships/NCAA West Regionals (1991, then spent four years (1984-87) working with 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, the U.S. Pro Ski Tour before settling down in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017). On Boulder. 61 other occasions, CU has finished as the Dating back to 1995, Rokos has served runner-up. That’s an amazing 75 percent of as the Chief of the U.S. Alpine delegation the time CU has finished in the top two as (the for the World University Games (WUG) on Buffs have just four finishes outside of the top nine occasions. He has handled what are four). essentially the head coaching duties for the

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alpine team in 1995 (Jaca, Spain), 1997 (Mugu, South Korea), being mentioned by President George W. Bush when the Buffs 2001 (Zakopane, Poland), 2003 (Tarvisio, Italy), 2005 (Innsbruck, were one of 12 teams invited to the White House. Rokos was Austria), 2007 (Turin, Italy), 2011 (Erzurum, Turkey), 2013 (Trentino, saluted by the president, who called him a “proud American” in Italy) and 2015 (Granada, Spain). The U.S. athletes have brought reference to his defecting to the States for freedom, which he also home several medals (gold, silver and bronze) under his direction, privately had mentioned upon meeting him, “There’s nothing like including four by CU skiers: gold medals by Thea Grosvold (slalom, freedom.” 2015), Erika Ghent (combined classification, 2011) and Katie He was also selected as the 2006 Coach of the Year in the Hartman (Super-G, 2011) and a bronze by Erika Hogan (slalom, state of Colorado by the Sportswomen of Colorado Hall of Fame. 2003). He was also the head coach of the entire U.S. Team in the Rokos was born May 25, 1950 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He 1997 event in South Korea. and his wife, the former Helena Konecny, and then-18-month- In 2013, he was inducted into the Colorado Ski & Snowboard old daughter Linda, left a communist-bound native homeland in Hall of Fame for his accomplishments in his two-plus decades as 1980 for Austria where they spent a year preparing their visas, CU’s head coach. He joined several former Buffs in the Hall, in and defected from Czechoslovakia to the United States (Detroit) a which he was the 200th person enshrined. year later before calling Colorado their permanent home beginning In 2006, he earned a “Top of the Rocky Award” as the region’s in 1982. He and Helena are the parents of two grown children top college coach as selected by the writers and critics of the Linda, now an alpine instructor at Eldora and Thomas, and one Rocky Mountain News. The honor made mention of CU being the grandchild, Stella, who is also an avid skier. first-ever shorthanded team to win an NCAA title, recording the biggest second-day comeback in the meet, and Rokos specifically Rokos Year-by-Year At Colorado Buffs in Rokos Era TEAM FINISHES------NCAA All-Americans------Here is how Colorado stacks up Season 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Region NCAA Champions Total A (B) C D against the other three national 1991 6 1 – – – 1st 1st 2 14 9 (3 5 2 1992 1 2 2 1 1 4th 5th 2 5 2 (2) 3 2 powerhouses Denver, Utah and 1993 4 1 – 1 – 1st 4th 2 10 5 (1) 5 0 Vermont since Richard Rokos 1994 1 4 – 2 – 1st 4th – 7 4 (0) 3 1 became head coach in 1991. 1995 6 – – – – 1st 1st 2 12 4 (1) 8 5 1996 3 1 1 1 – 2nd 4th – 8 4 (1) 4 1 1997 1 3 2 – – 2nd 3rd – 7 5 (2) 2 3 1998 3 3 – – – 2nd 1st 3 9 5 (2) 4 2 NCAA 1999 4 1 – 1 – 1st 1st 3 9 7 (3) 2 3 2000 4 2 – – – 1st 2nd 3 9 6 (1) 3 4 Championships 2001 1 3 2 – – 2nd 3rd – 7 7 (1) 0 3 Denver 10 2002 1 3 1 1 – 1st 2nd 1 6 4 (0) 2 5 Colorado 8 2003 1 2 1 2 – 2nd 3rd – 6 2 (0) 4 1 2004 – 2 1 2 1 5th 4th – 8 5 (2) 3 0 Utah 6 2005 – 2 2 1 – 3rd 6th – 5 3 (1) 2 0 Vermont 3 2006 4 2 – – – 1st 1st 4 8 7 (3) 1 4 Dartmouth 1 2007 2 3 1 – – 2nd 3rd – 6 4 (1) 2 3 2008 2 2 2 – – 1st 2nd 4 7 5 (2) 2 2 New Mexico 1 2009 3 2 1 – – 2nd 2nd 2 7 5 (0) 2 3 2010 3 2 1 – – 1st 2nd 1 8 7 (1) 1 3 2011 5 – – 1 – 1st 1st 2 10 7 (3) 3 2 Individual NCAA 2012 – 4 2 – – 2nd 3rd 1 7 3 (1) 4 3 2013 6 – – – – 1st 1st 2 7 4 (2) 3 0 Championships 2014 – 2 – 3 – 2nd 4th 2 6 5 (1) 1 1 Denver 47 2015 4 2 – – – 1st 1st – 8 3 (2) 5 2 2016 1 4 1 – – 2nd 2nd 2 10 8 (1) 2 2 Colorado 43 2017 3 1 2 – – 1st 2nd 4 8 6 (4) 2 2 Utah 40 2018 3 3 — — — 2nd 2nd — 11 4 (0) 7 6 Vermont 34 2019 1 2 3 — — 2nd 3rd 1 11 5 (1) 6 2 2020 — 2 2 — — 3rd — — 3 1 (0) 2 0 Totals 73 61 27 16 2 14 titles 8 titles 43 239 145 (42) 93 67 KEY: A—first-team; (B)—two-time first-team; C—second-team; D—multiple second-team honors in addition to a first-team perfor- mance or another second-team finish.)

6 2020 COLORADO SKIING @CUBuffsSkiing 513 All-America Honors • 85 Olympic Appearances • 15 National Ski Hall of Fame Members NORDIC COACH JANA WEINBERGER

The 2021 ski season will be the been inducted in the fall of 2019. 18th season Jana Weinberg has She is one of four Nordic athletes in school history that have been affiliated with the Colorado swept the NCAA Nordic titles in the same year, and she has Buffaloes and it marks her third coached two of the other three. Petra Hyncicova swept the NCAA season in charge of the Nordic team. titles in 2017 and Mads Stroem did so in 2016. Weinberger was promoted into the Hyncicova and Stroem excelled under Weinberger’s tutelage. role of head Nordic coach for the Hyncicova, the 2017 national Nordic skier of the year, went on Buffaloes on July 31, 2018 after she to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics for her home country, had served as the assistant Nordic the Czech Republic. Stroem won three total NCAA titles under coach at CU for the previous 11 Weinberger and was an eight-time All-American (seven first-team seasons. She was also a two-time honors), tying the program record for most All-America honors NCAA individual champion skier and first-team accolades in a career. herself at CU from 2003-06. Of the 15 individual NCAA titles that have been won by Buffs In her first two seasons as the during her coaching tenure, six have been males and three head Nordic coach, Weinberger has coached six Buffs to a total of females. Four of the skiers have won multiple national titles nine All-America honors with one individual NCAA Championship (Stroem 3, Maria Grevsgaard 2, Hyncicova 2 and Rune Oedegaard (Erik Dengerud in 2019). In the past two seasons, the Buffs 2). have 98 Top 10 performances and eight race victories, including As a result of Weinberger’s performance in 2006, she was freshman Magnus Boee’s three in 2020. awarded the Dick Schoenberger Memorial Award, presented In her 11 seasons as an assistant under Bruce Cranmer, the to CU’s most outstanding skier each season. When she won a duo put together the top Nordic program in the country. In her pair of All-America citations in 2004, she became just the sixth tenure, Colorado finished first or second in the Nordic points women’s cross country skier to accomplish that feat and first standings at the NCAA Championships eight times and in five of since former teammate and former assistant coach Mari Storeng those seasons CU won the mythical Nordic national championship in 2001. Weinberger was also the recipient of the Outstanding (2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015). Nordic Woman award in both 2003 and ’04. In all, Weinberger has helped guide a total of 19 different skiers Prior to her collegiate career, she skied for the Tartu Ski Club to 94 race victories and she coached 10 different Buffs who have in Estonia. She also competed in and track & field at won a combined 15 NCAA individual national titles. Additionally, Estonia Sport Gymnasium. she has seen 22 different Nordic skiers garner a combined 54 Born July 27, 1979 in Russia, she was raised in Estonia. The first-team All-America honors. former Jana Rehemaa is the daughter of Udo and Veir Rehemaa. As a skier, Weinberger raced 28 collegiate races, claiming She graduated from the University of Colorado in 2006 with a 27 top 10 and 23 top five finishes. As a senior in 2006, she degree in international affairs. She is married to former CU All- captained the national championship team and herself swept six American and her predecessor as the assistant Nordic Coach, consecutive races, including winning the individual titles in both Dan Weinberger, and the couple has three children, Klara, the freestyle and classical events at the NCAA Championships. Alexander and William. She is a member of the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame, having One of two children of Udo and Veira Rehemaa, her younger borther, Aivar, was a world junior Nordic champion. Her aunt, Rutt Rehemaa, was one of the top female Nordic racers ever in Estonia and later became a famous sports personality while her uncle was her long-time coach before she came to race for Colorado. She had skied for the Tartu Ski Club in Estonia with her first cousin, Katrin Smigun, who won the 2003 NCAA freestyle championship while skiing for the University of Utah.

National Champions Under Weinberger

Name Year Event Maria Grevsgaard 2008 women’s classical and freestyle Vegard Kjoelhamar 2009 men’s freestyle Matt Gelso 2010 men’s classical Eliska Hajkova 2011 women’s classical Reid Pletcher 2011 men’s classical Joanne Reid 2013 women’s freestyle Rune Oedegaard 2013 men’s classical 2014 men’s classical Mads Stroem 2014 men’s freestyle 2016 men’s classical and freestyle Petra Hyncicova 2017 women’s classical and freestyle Erik Dengerud 2019 men’s freestyle

@CUBuffsSkiing 2020 COLORADO SKIING 7 20 National Championships • 34 RMISA Championships • 97 Individual National Champions ASSISTANT COACHES Austin Caldwell Stefan Hughes Assistant Nordic Coach Assistant Alpine Coach

Austin Caldwell, a former team captain Stefan Hughes, a two-time All-American of the Dartmouth Nordic ski team, was alpine skier for the Buffaloes from named the assistant Nordic coach in 2007-10, returned to his alma mater as August 2018 and enters his third season the assistant alpine coach in 2018 and on the Buffs staff for the 2020 season. enters his fourth season on the skiing Caldwell replaces Jana Weinberger, who staff. was promoted to head Nordic coach In Hughes’ first three years, eight Buffs after the retirement of long-time Nordic have earned earned 13 All-America coach Bruce Cranmer. honors in alpine action at the NCAA In Caldwell’s two seasons, the Buffs Championships, including Ola Johansen captured one individual NCAA Title (Erik earning first-team All-America honors in Dengerud in 2019) and six skiers have earned All-America honors, the GS with a third place finish in 2019 and Mikaela Tommy with a pair including three first-team honors from three different skiers. In all for of top five and first-team All-America finishes in 2019. Filip Forjtek his first two seaseons, five Buffs won a total of eight races and overall followed that up with a second place finish in the GS in 2020. Six the Buffs have 98 Top 10 finishes. skiers have won races in the last three seasons a total of 19 times. In Caldwell graduated from Dartmouth with a Bachelor of Arts in all, the alpine skiers racked up 131 top 10 finishes in the past three History in 2015, where he was a member of the Nordic ski team. He seasons. was a captain his last year there and also earned mention on the After graduating from CU in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts in film National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team. studies, Hughes spent eight years as a ski coach across the globe. After graduating from Dartmouth, he went directly into coaching, His first coaching job came right out of college in 2010, when he working at the Putney Ski Club as the youth team coach in 2015- was a FIS Alpine Ski Racing Coach for the British Junior National Ski 16. During that time, he also worked for Caldwell Sport as a wax Team. technician and Nordic ski stone grinder. For the past two years, he has After one season there, he moved back to Colorado to work at the been the Elite and Post Graduate coach at the Bridger Ski Foundation Winter Park Competition Center as a U21 post-graduate coach from in Bozeman, Mont. 2010-11. At Bridger, on top of creating training plans, he was in charge of Hughes spent the next four years coaching at the Ski and waxing and ski selection for both the elite and junior program skiers Snowboard Club in Vail, Colo., before going to work privately in the and he coached and waxed for national champions and Super Tour event production field the year before coming back to CU. winners. He was also the waxing technician for the Ski Tour Canada Born June 6, 1986 in Rutland, Vt., Hughes and his wife, the former World Cups in 2016. Lleane Grimditch, have one daughter, Gioia, born last July. The Born March 25, 1992, in Peru, Vt., to Severre and Lilly Caldwell. couple had head coach Richard Rokos serve as the officiant at their Sverre is the Nordic program director at Stratton Mountain School and wedding. Lleane played soccer at the University of Denver from has been named the USSA Domestic Coach of the Year four times. 2003-07 and now owns Whole Pets store in Boulder. His sister-in-law, His sister, Sophie, is a two-time Olympian and was a five-time All- Lauren Grimditch, was an alpine skier at Colorado from 1990-94 and American Nordic skier at Dartmouth. Aside from skiing, his hobbies was a part of Rokos’ 1991 national championship team. including traveling, basketball and board games. His Vermont roots He is the son of Chuck and Betty Hughes, and has two older make him a self-proclaimed maple syrup snob siblings, Tyler and Megan, who were also accomplished skiers.

Above: Austin Caldwell and Jana Weinberger at Steamboat Springs. Above: Stefan Hughes as the DU Invitational in 2018.

8 2020 COLORADO SKIING @CUBuffsSkiing 513 All-America Honors • 85 Olympic Appearances • 15 National Ski Hall of Fame Members SKIING SUPPORT STAFF

Sheryl Voth Director of Ski Team Operations

Sheryl Voth is in her second season with the Colorado ski program, having replaced Jodi Mossoni, who served the program for 17 years. Voth is in her 11th season with athletics and 13th with the University of Colorado. She previously served as Assistant to the Head Football Coach from 2011-12 and 2015-19. She also served as an assistant in the Gameday Operations and Facilities from 2013-14 and with the Herbst Academic Center in 2010. A native of Boulder, she graduated from Fairview High School, and attended the University of Colorado. The former Sheryl Bonnes, when she was in sixth grade, she became one of the first girls in Boulder to play on a boys’ Little League team.

Mindy Sclaro Associate Director of Academics & Ski Team Sports Supervisor

Mindy Sclary is in her 16th year as an Associate Director of Academics at CU, and in her first season as the Ski Team Sports Supervisor. She earned Individual Certification from the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics and has also particiated in numerous other pograms including Bystander Intervention Training, National Survey of Student Engagement Committee, Learning Specialist Search Committee Chair, Safe Zone Ally Training and the NCAA Certification Academic Integrity Committee. She earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Ithaca College with a focus on theraputic intervention and was a member of the team. She earned a master’s dgere in sport management from Northern Colorado and has a graduate certificate from CU in Compartive Ethnic Studies. Prior to CU, she was the varsity soccer coach and athletic director at Alexander Dawson School. The former Mindy Cohen is marries to Sam Sclaro.

M.T. Eisner Assistant Director of Strength & Conditioning

M.T. Eisner is in her eighth season as an assitant strength and conditioning coach. She previously has worked at the University of Denver, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the Air Force Academy, the U.S. Olympic Training Center and Front Range Weightlifting. She graduated with a degree in Communication and Journalism from Fairfield in 2008 and earned a master’s in Sports Medicine with a specialization in Strength and Conditioning from Colorado-Colorado Springs in 2013. The former Mary Therese Church, she was born in Casper, Wyo., and graduated from Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo. She is married to Justin and the couple has two sons, Sutter and Calder.

Tim Horton Assistant Director of Equipment

Tim Horton is in his 27th season at CU and his 19th as an assistant in the equipment office, also having spent eight years in CU’s business office. He won CU’s Staff Member of the Year in 2003. He graduated from Northern Colorado with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Marketing and was a member of the ski team there. He was born in Leadville, Colo., and graduated from Fairview High School in Boulder. He has a son, Davis, and is a 12-year cancer survivor.

Marissa Holliday Assistant Athletic Trainer

Marissa Holliday is in her eighth year as an assistant athletic trainer at Colorado and in her second season with the ski program. Prior to Colorado, she worked as the CU Sports Medicine Orthopedic Clinic in Boulder and with Stadium Medical. She graduated from Texas with a bachelor’s degree in athletic training in 2009 and earned her master’s degree in higher and postsecondary education in 2011. She lettered in , basketball, track and at Bruni High School. The former Marissa Carrizales is married to Adam Holiday and the couple has one child.

Katharine Lindauer Academic Coordinator

Katharine Lindaure is in her eighth season in the Athletic Department and fifth season as an academic coordinator, having joined the staff in 2013. She is in her fifth season working with the ski teams and also works with the volleyball and men’s golf teams. She graduated from CU in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in Communication and Anthropology. Her father and sister also attended CU. She graduated from ThunderRidge High School in 2009.

Curtis Snyder Assistant AD/Sports Information

Curtis Snyder is in his 22nd season at the University of Colorado and his third as the Assistant AD for Sports Information. He has served as the ski team contact since 2009. A Boulder native and Boulder High School graduate, he graduated from CU in 1998. He also serves as the Secretary of the Ski Coaches Association and the webmaster for the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association. He is married to the former Kami Carmann, who played basketball at CU. The couple has three children, twins Lucy and Sam, and Cooper. His granmother graduated from CU, where both of his parents and his sister also attended college.

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Mark Kennedy Phillip P. DiStefano President Chancellor

2020 University of Colorado Board of Regents Back row: Linda Shoemaker, Lesley Smith, Chance Hill, John Carson, Glen Gallegos Front Row: Heidi Ganahl, Sue Sharkey, Jack Kroll, Irene Griego Chancellor DiStefano’s Administrative Organization

Russell L. Moore Patrick O’Rourke Deb Coffin Catherine Shea Rick George Dr. Joe Jupille Provost Interim COO Advancement Chief of Staff Athletic Director Faculty Athletics Rep. Athletic Department Administration

Jason DePaepe Kris Livingston Lance Carl Cory Hillard Miguel Rueda Alexis Wiliams Laura Anderson J.T. Galloway Deputy AD Exec. Sr. Associate AD Senior Associate AD Senior Associate AD Senior Associate AD Senior Associate AD Associate AD Associate AD

Lance Gerlach Cecil Hairiston II Jill Keegan David Plati Tracy Tripp Orville Jennings Prema Khanna Associate AD Associate AD Associate AD/SWA Associate AD Associate AD Assistant AD Assistant AD

Lindsey Lew Scott McMichael Alicia Cash Palas Marcus Palas Gabbie Pelloni Curtis Snyder Assistant AD Assistant AD Assistant AD Assistant AD Assistant AD Assistant AD

10 2020 COLORADO SKIING @CUBuffsSkiing 513 All-America Honors • 85 Olympic Appearances • 15 National Ski Hall of Fame Members SKI TEAM PERSONNEL HISTORY

Head Coach Alpine Assistant Coaches Sport Administrator Strength & Conditioning Jim Johnson 1949 Bill Bourton (M) 1977-79 Fred Casotti 1969-86 Mark Larson 1988-89 Steve Bradley 1950 Syd Shainholtz (W) 1979 Richard Cardillo 1991-99 Steve Plisk 1988 Jimmy Griffith 1950 John Travers (M) 1980 Karen Morrison 2000-08 Jeff Madden 1990-92 Erte 1951-52 Paul Major (W) 1981 Julie Manning 2009-13 E.J. “Doc” Kreis 1997-2004 Lippman 1951-52 John Skajem 1988 Kris Livingston 2014-18 Sara Ramey 2005-07 *Tom Jacobs 1953-56 Richard Rokos 1989 Emily Canova 2019-20 James Hardy 2008-09 Bob Beattie 1957-65 Reid Phillips 1990 Mindy Sclaro 2021-present Jared Aurich 2010 M.J. Elisha 1966-67 Eric Houston 1990 Moses Cabrera 2011 Gordi Eaton 1966-67 Christopher Morse 1990 Steve Englehart 2012-13 Jim Hoescher 1968 Gregory Klein 1991-92 Sports Information M.T. Eisner 2014-Present Mike Romine 1968 Jim Woodburne 1993-94 (Full Time/GA/Intern) Bill Marolt 1969-78 Peter McBride 1995-96 Phil Danielson 1949-52 Larry Martin (women’s) 1977 Rich Vossler 1997-2000 Fred Casotti 1953-68 Equipment Manager Bill Crowder 1990-96 Steve Devin (women’s) 1978-80 Sue Schwartz 2001 Steve Hatchell 1968-76 Tim Horton 1997-2005, 2014-Present Alan Ashley (women’s) 1981-82 Andy Leroy 2002 Mike Moran 1968-78 Nick Sprouse 2006-10 Tim Hinderman** 1979-83 Sylvan Kaufman 2003-04 John Dakin 1978-78 David Adamczyk 2011-14 Alan Ashley 1984-87 Jed Scheutze 2005-07 Pat O’Connor 1979 Tim LaVallee 1988-90 Ski Hiese 2009-10 John Clagett 1982 Richard Rokos 1991-Present Drew Roberts 2011-12 David Plati 1983-Present Academic Coordinator *-Jacobs was the first full-time head coach, Taggart Spenst 2013-14 Brendan McNicholas 1998-2001 Theo Gregory 1988-92 prior to that it was ski team members serving Fletcher McDonald 2015-16 Colleen Reilly Krueger 2002-04 George Hoey 1993-95 in the role. Cameron Smith 2017 Lindsay Lew 2005-07 Hal Burns 1997-2000 **-Hinderman was the men’s head coach from Stefan Hughes 2018-Present Allie Musso 2008-09 Kathy Sulentic 2001-06 1979-82 and the coed head coach in 1983. Curtis Snyder 2009-16, 2019-Present Waqa Damuni 2007-08 Jason Clay 2017-18 Melanie Zaharias 2009-11 Nordic Assistant Coaches Erin Cunningham 2012-13 Drew Geer 1984 Head Alpine Coach Chris Howlett 2014-15 Bill Marolt 1968-78 Mike Hogan 1988 Sports Information Katherine Lindauer 2017-Present Paul Major (M) 1982-84 Jeff Mason 1988 (Student Assistants) Kurt Smitz (M) 1984 Aage Schanning 1989 Lisa Hughes 1985-86 Mike Farny (M) 1985-86 Jeff Kellom 1989 Laurie Dale 1987 Frank Kelble (W) 1985-88 Mike Trecker) 1990 Kathleen Rauen 1988-89 Kurt Olson (M) 1987 Mike Devecka) 1990-92 Lynn Smith 1990 Tim LaVallee (M) 1988-89 Dan O’Mera 1993-94 John Wexler 1990 Richard Rokos 1990-Present Toralf Heimdal 1997-98 Michael Wexler 1991-92 **-Paul Major was the head alpine coach for Jim DeFoe 1999 Megan Arts 1991 the women’s team in 1982 and the men’s Kim Mustonen 2000 Shauna Fisher 1991-92 team in 1983 and again with the women’s Magnus Eriksson 2001 Erica Morse 1993-94 team in 1984. Uni Oedgard 2001 Cheryl Velasquez 1994 Jan Melsaether 2002 Andrea Rojs 1995 Halvor Utistog) 2003 Jeff Fleischman 1995 Head Nordic Coach Mari Storeng 2004 Bob Kendall 1973 Dan Weinberger 2005-07 Kim Kendall 1974-77 Athletic Trainer Jana Weinberger 2008-18 Larry Martin 1978 Jack Rockwell 1954 Austin Caldwell 2019-Present Jack Turner 1979 Rich Newton 1975-76 Gordon Lange (W) 1979-80 Ted Layne 1979 John Travers 1980 Director of Operations/ Dave Burton 1988-89 Alan Ashley* 1981-85 Terri Brown 1988-89 Toni Jorgensen (W) 1984-87 Administrative Assistants Terri DeNardo 1990 Sue Forward 1984-85 John Main (MN) 1986-87 Kjerstin Viebrock 1991-92 Kathy Ellinger 1985-86 Phil Steele 1988-90 Tami Smith 1993-97 Renee Kochevar 1986 Mike Devecka 1991-92 Kevin Messick 1998-2000 Diane Mullins 1986 Peter Hoag 1993-94 Wendy Veatch 2001-05 Tammy Bartlett 1987 Frederik Landstedt 1995-97 Kristi Davidson 2006-07 Marni Berg 1987 Vladimir Cervenka 1998-99 Melisa Fazio 2008-13 Karen Nelson 1987-88 Bruce Cranmer 2000-18 Nicole Makris 2014 Marni Berg 1988-89 Jana Weinberger 2019-Present Eric Mann 2015-16 Heather Berg 1990-91 *-Alan Ashley was the head Nordic coach for Kari Kebach 2017-19 Sydney Monstream 1992-94 the women’s team in 1981 and both teams Marissa Holiday 2020-Present Rhonda Flaningam 1997-2000 from 1982-85 Jennifer Anderson 2001 Jodi Mossoni 2002-19 Sheryl Voth 2020-Present

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