University of Colorado Boulder Men'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 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

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

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

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