Austin Caldwell

Biography

Austin Caldwell, a former team captain of the Dartmouth Nordic ski team, was named the assistant Nordic coach in August 2018 and enters his fifth season on the Buffs staff for the 2024 season. Caldwell replaced Jana Weinberger, who was promoted to head Nordic coach after the retirement of long-time Nordic coach Bruce Cranmer. Caldwell has aided Weinberger in maintaining CU as one of the dominant Nordic programs in the country that Weinberger and Cranmer had built the previous decade. In his first five seasons as the Nordic coach, Caldwell has coached 10 Buffs to a total of 29 All-America honors with three individual NCAA Championships, including Erik Dengerud's win in 2019 and Magnus Boee's sweep in 2021). In the past five seasons, the Buffs have 245 top 10 performances and 24 race victories, including Boee's school record 10 in 2021. Caldwell graduated from Dartmouth with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2015, where he was a member of the Nordic ski team. He was a captain his last year there and also earned mention on the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team. After graduating from Dartmouth, he went directly into coaching, working at the Putney Ski Club as the youth team coach in 2015-16. During that time, he also worked for Caldwell Sport as a wax technician and Nordic ski stone grinder. For the past two years, he has been the Elite and Post Graduate coach at the Bridger Ski Foundation in Bozeman, Mont. At Bridger, on top of creating training plans, he was in charge of