Sam Benzing

Biography

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.