Montana State University Men's Skiing

Kris Shampeny is in his fourth season as head coach of the Montana State alpine program. Last winter, he helped the Bobcats to a fifth place finish at the 2024 Skiing Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colo. The former Bobcat skier saw Gianluca Boehm and Kristiane Bekkestad each earn Second Team All-America honors in both slalom and giant slalom. During his tenure in Bozeman, Shampeny has guided six different skiers to 13 All-America accolades (six 1st Team, 7 2nd Team). In his first season at his alma mater, Shampeny guided the Bobcats to a ninth place national finish at Park City, Utah, and his 2023 contingent finished sixth at Lake Placid, N.Y. A former Bobcat student-athlete and past assistant World Cup technical coach with the United States Ski and Snowboard Women’s Alpine team, Shampeny, was named head alpine coach at Montana State University by MSU Director of Athletics Leon Costello on July 22, 2021. Shampeny, a native of Manhattan, Mont., who was raised in the local ski community as part of the Bridger Ski Foundation program, raced for Montana State from 2010-12 under the leadership of Dan Brelsford. He also served as a student assistant at MSU- a move that proved to be the start of a successful coaching career at both the national andinternational levels. Most recently, Shampeny was the lead post graduate FIS (International Ski Federation) coach with the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club in Colorado where he helped navigate training and racing competition during

Adam St. Pierre is in his fourth season as head coach of the Montana State Nordic program. During his time on the University hill, St. Pierre helped the Bobcats to a fifth place finish at the 2021 NCAA Skiing Championships in New Hampshire; a nine place showing at the 2022 NCAAs in Park City, and a sixth place finish last winter in Lake Placid, N.Y. Before making the move to Bozeman, St. Pierre, served as Cross Country Sport Coordinator for U.S. Ski & Snowboard. At U.S. Ski & Snowboard, St. Pierre participated in a six-person decision-making team and managed communications on the impacts of COVID-19 and other emerging issues. In addition, he developed educational materials for cross country skiing and managed and publicized a nationwide race calendar, working closely with ten divisional leaders. St. Pierre also maintained points lists for Olympic Winter Games, World Ski Championships, and other international events. From 2006-2019, St. Pierre was the head coach of the Boulder (CO) Nordic Junior Racing Team. As head coach, he planned and supervised dry-land and on-snow practices for skiers ages 8-19; recruited, trained and managed a staff of 8-12 assistant coaches; taught technique, fitness and race strategies; coordinated and provided race-day support and logistics; organized multi-day training camps, including physiological testing, dry-land and on-snow workouts, and educational components; and worked with a volunteer board to budget, fundraise and create programs to ensure

Whitcomb joins the Bobcats coaching staff after graduating from the College of St. Scholastica in 2025. A four-year member of the Saints ski team, Whitcomb served as a team captain from 2023-2025 and earned CCSA All-Region Second Team honors in both 2024 and 2025. In 2025, she completed a coaching internship with the Saints ski team, and she graduated with a degree in exercise physiology. During the summer of 2025, she was the head coach of the Holderness Nordic summer training program for middle school and high school athletes and served as an assistant coach for Holderness Nordic and the Craftsbury Outdoor Center. Whitcomb was a 2023 DemandIX Fellow with WomenX, an organization founded on the anniversary of Title IX, that educates and empowers the next generation of female leaders on campuses. Whitcomb is currently pursuing a master's degree in exercise physiology and nutrition at MSU, specializing in ski biomechanics. Her thesis focuses on inter-joint coordination across ability levels and speeds in V2 skate skiing.

Roger W. Bay, MSU Assistant Alpine Coach for MSU Athletic Department. Started in the Fall of 2023. This is my third year coaching Alpine ski racing for MSU. It is my 40th year as an Alpine Ski Racing Coach. I worked half of my career with the Bridger Ski Foundation (off and on since '84), 1/3 of my career with the US Ski Team ('98-2005 & 2011), worked 4 years for the Park City Ski team in Utah ('89-'92) and 1 year with Team Gilboa in Minneapolis ('96). I am currently on the National Alpine Coaches Education Faculty. My duties are to assist the Head Alpine coach with training, coaching, video and travel to and from training and racing. Our Alpine team is scored together with the Nordic Team. Our mission is to win the NCAA Championships. I graduated from MSU in '85 with a degree in Physical Education with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology. I ski raced for the Bobcats for two years '81-'82. It was fun to watch the Bobcat Football team win NCAA Champs in '84 when I was a student and again this year as athletic staff! I am very lucky to be using my degree and doing what I love: Coaching Alpine ski racing and helping student athletes reach their full potential. Go Cats!

Benzing joins the Bobcat ski program after serving one season as The Paul J. Finnegan Family Head Coach at Harvard, where she led all facets of the men’s and women’s Nordic programs; including leading senior Rémi Drolet to two FIS Cross Country world cup starts and an All-American finish at the 2024 NCAA Championship. Prior to her stint in Cambridge, Mass., she was an assistant at St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn., from 2021-23. During the 2023 season, Benzing was a Women’s Sports Foundation Tara VanDerveer Fund for the Advancement of Women in Coaching Fellow. This fellowship took her to the FIS cross-country world cup where she assisted as a tech and coach for the U.S. Ski Team. In fall of 2023 Benzing coached the National Training Group camp in Park City, UT at the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Center of Excellence. As a student-athlete at St. Scholastica she captained the squad during the 2020 and 2021 campaigns. Benzing earned a Master of Arts degree in psychological sciences-clinical counseling track from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2023. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in exercise physiology, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Saint Scholastica, 2021.