About the Author: Edie Thys Morgan

Tanner Perkins steps into his first World Cup super-G at Copper Mountain, bringing momentum, gratitude, and the full-speed drive that carried him from van life to the U.S. Ski Team.

One year after cheering for her sister at Killington, 17-year-old Annika Hunt steps into her own World Cup start gate in Levi. The 2025 Overall NorAm Champion and new U.S. Ski Team member brings confidence, perspective, and a passion for the sport she’s grown up in.

Liv Moritz, a standout on the Stifel U.S. Ski Team and University of Denver athlete, is making her World Cup debut in Kronplatz after impressing coaches with a strong Europa Cup performance in Puy St. Vincent. Balancing a 4.0 GPA, NCAA skiing and soccer, and Europa Cup races, Moritz credits her success to a supportive network of family, teammates, and coaches. The 20-year-old environmental studies major is embracing the challenge with a goal to push out of her comfort zone and soak in the moment alongside her twin sister and teammates.

In 2022, Haley Cutler was doing what most of the ski racing world was doing—watching the Beijing Winter Olympics. Among the competitors in the speed events were former peers, women she had either grown up racing with or encountered on the FIS circuit. She was overcome with a revelation: “We’ve all competed against each other before. Why can't we do that again? Why can't I be there with them?”

When FIS announced that athletes could wear sponsors logos on the sides of their helmets, it presented an opportunity for athletes to make more cash and build their visibility through brand ambassador partnerships. Atle Lie McGrath—arguably the most personable and popular young star on the circuit—had his share of offers but wanted a relationship that went beyond a paycheck and a logo. The 24-year-old explains: “I really wanted to be able to represent something that meant something to me that I could be very, very proud to be a part of.”

Kendahl Roufa Photo: Skapare Photography & Camden Palmquist Photo: U.S. Ski & Snowboard Two Americans

Last weekend at the Middlebury Regional Championships and this week at the NCAA National Championships in Steamboat, the EISA’s Class of 2024 wraps up the final college racing turns of their undergraduate careers. Thanks to the 2020 COVID pandemic, most of them had no college racing as First Years, when Ivy League and NESCAC schools canceled their 202/21 competition seasons. Instead, they scrambled to train and race through pandemic restrictions and strict quarantine requirements that forced athletes to pick a state and stay there.

If there was a soundtrack to this year’s World Cup, it might be Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust.” As the rash of injuries among ski racing’s high-profile athletes escalates, every major ski team is feeling the pain.

Dasha Romanov, at age 20, will accomplish her dream of qualifying for a World Cup start. Her debut will be at the slalom in Levi!

As last season wrapped up with youth skiing championship races, one team kept popping up atop podiums—first at the NH State Championships, then at Eastern Championships, then CanAms and then to the Whistler Cup. The team was CMS, Cardigan Mountain School.

Both Bocock sisters will be skiing their first World Cup races when the season kicks off in Sölden on Saturday, Oct. 28th.

Lila Lapanja Photo: GEPA pictures/ Harald Steiner As the 2024 season approaches, national teams are

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