University of Colorado Boulder Women's Skiing

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 Skiin...

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

Curtis Snyder has been a part of the CU Athletic Department for all but five years since 1994 and he currently serves as the Associate Athletic Director for Athletic Communications since November 2023 after serving in the interim role as the head of the department starting in January 2023. In 2025, he added responsibilities as the sport supervisor for CU's 21-time national championship ski program. Previously at CU, he has served as the Assistant Athletic Director in the Sports Information office from 2018-22, the Director of Digital Strategy from 2016-18, Director of Digital Marketing from 2015-16, Digital Marketing Director/Associate Sports Information Director from 2012-15, the Associate Sports Information Director from 2008-12, an Assistant Sports Information Director from 1998-2003, adding Internet Managing Editor to that title in 1999, and first as a Student Assistant SID from 1994-98. He currently oversees the communications efforts for the entire athletic department and works specifically with the football, skiing and women's tennis teams. In his time at CU, he has worked as a primary contact for nine different programs as well as handling primary duties for the Ralphie Program and CU's spirit teams. He has also had a heavy hand in CU's digital footprint, working on the first iteration of the athletic department website in 1996, being one of the first full-time website managers in college athletics in 1999, establishing CU's on-line brand as CUBuffs, obtaining the dom

Ian Lochhead was named the 11th head alpine coach in CU history on May 3, 2023, taking the helm of the most storied program in the NCAA for his first season for the 2024 season. Lochhead came to CU from Ski & Snowboard Club Vail, where he was the head coach of the U16 and FIS groups since 2018. He helped rebuild a culture of accountability and hard work within the club that endured during the COVID-19 Pandemic and he organized and budgeted for camps in Austria, Chile, New Zealand and at Mt. Hood in Oregon. During his time at Vail, he helped with hill preparations for the 2022 U18 National Championships and as a liaison with the Men's U.S. Ski Team in preparation for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Prior to Vail, Lochhead worked at the U.S. Ski Team from 2012-18, first as the men's development team assistant coach (2012-14), then as the head coach of the Europa Team (2014-16) and finally as the head coach for the World Cup Slalom Group from 2016-18 which included the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. He began his coaching career in 2009 in Vail as the Head J4 Coach and as an assistant coach for the men's FIS group prior to joining Team USA. Lochhead graduated from the University of Denver with a degree in Business Administration and skied for the Pioneers for four years, helping the team win NCAA Championships in 2008 and '09, when he was named All-RMISA. Lochhead's family does have CU roots as both of his parents and his grandfather graduated from CU, the latter compe

Meet Katharine Lindauer Katharine Lindauer is in her fourth year as an academic coordinator in 2019-20, but her seventh in the Herbst Academic Center, as she...

Katherine Kubancik is the Assistant Director of the Scripps Leadership and Career Development program. She joined the team in August 2019 as the program coordinator after acting as the Senior Student-Athlete Development Assistant with the University of Washington athletic department in 2018-19. In her current role, Kubancik works with the women's soccer, tennis, and volleyball teams as well as the men's & women's cross country and track & field, and golf teams. She focuses on student-athlete career readiness and leadership development initiatives. Kubancik completed her undergraduate degree in business marketing at the University of Idaho, where she competed for the Vandals on their swim team. After graduating, she went on to coach for the Seattle University men's and women's swim team for six seasons. Top accomplishments include coaching at the 2012 and 2016 US Olympic Trials and the 2017 NCAA Division I Women's National Championship Meet, and nationally ranked team GPAs among all Division I swim teams. Kubancik went on to earn her Master of Education at the University of Washington's Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership program. She received an Outstanding Merit award for her degree culminating project, focusing on how CU can holistically aid student-athletes in defining and utilizing transferable skills after graduation and in life. While in graduate school, she worked as a Herbst Academic Center Academic Mentor and Leadership Development Program Intern for the Buffs. A Bou