Brian Blank

Biography

Brian Blank ‘95 is in his 18th season as UNH alpine head coach in 2024-25. Brian has over 20 years of alpine ski coaching experience. He lettered on the UNH ski team from 1991-95 and served as team captain in 1994-95. During his career, 29 times a Wildcat has earned All-America accolades. In 2025, Blank guided a talented alpine unit that sent the full six student-athletes to the NCAA Championships, part of a program total of 11 competitors. He was named USCSCA National Coach of the Year following the team's performance. Under his leadership, freshman Jayden Buckrell became just the third individual national champion in program history by winning the NCAA men's slalom national championship with a time of 1:27.17. The victory earned him First Team All-America honors and led the Wildcats to a third-place team finish in the event. Freshman Dasha Romanov earned Second Team All-America recognition with a seventh-place finish in the giant slalom. The 2022 season saw two more All-Americans for the Wildcats as Bastian Meisen was a First Team All-American in the giant slalom with a fifth-place finish in the NCAAs and Zoe Michael was a Second Team All-American with a 10th-place finish in the slalom. UNH hosted the NCAAs in 2021 for the sixth time in program history. Will Bruneau-Bouchard of the alpine team earned All-American Second Team in slalom (8th place), and the Wildcats finished ninth overall. In 2020, the ’Cats finished ninth in NCAAs at Montana State. The Championships were cut