Jana Weinberger

Biography

The 2024 ski season is the 21st season Jana Weinberger has been affiliated with the Colorado Buffaloes and it marks her first season as the Director of Skiing. She was named to that post on May 3, 2023, after serving as the Interim Head Coach for the 2023 season. This will be her sixth season as the Nordic Head Coach. Weinberger was promoted to the Nordic head coaching role prior to the 2019 season after having served as the assistant Nordic coach for the previous 11 seasons. She was also a two-time NCAA individual champion skier herself at CU from 2003-06. In her first five seasons as the Nordic coach, Weinberger 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. She was named the interim head coach after the start of the 2023 season and helped guide the Buffaloes through turmoil successfully, culminating in a second place finish at the NCAA Championships, improving from a fourth-place finish in 2022. In her 11 seasons as an assistant under Bruce Cranmer, the duo put together the top Nordic program in the country. In her tenure, Colorado finished first or second in the Nordic points standings at the NCAA Championships eight times and in five of those seasons CU won the mythical Nordic national championship (2008, 2010, 2011, 201