Alpine Canada Announces Canadian Ski Team for 24/25 Season

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Valerie Grenier
Members of the Canadian Alpine Team. | Image: @valeriegrenier Instagram Page

Alpine Canada announced the athletes who have been nominated to the Canadian Ski Team for the 2024/25 season in the disciplines of alpine, ski cross and para-alpine last week, Monday, June 3. Consistent with the โ€˜Made for Canada Strategic Planโ€™ for ski racing in Canada, all athletes nominated have demonstrated evidence of being on a podium pathway for the 2026 and/or 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

To elevate and accelerate the development of younger athletes for the 2030 quadrennial, this upcoming season will see the introduction of a new tier in the Canadian National Ski Team structure for Canadaโ€™s top U21 and some U24 athletes with podium potential.ย This tier will be focused on competition at the Continental Cup level (Nor-Am & Europa Cup) and World Junior Championships.ย ย This tier will be referred to as the Canadian Alpine Ski Team (CAST) D in Alpine and as the National Next Gen group in Ski Cross and Para Alpine.

Broderick Thompson at the Matterhorn Sprung in Zermatt, Switzerland/Cervinia, Italy. | Picture: Broderick Thompson

The CAST D team is an outcome of the newly launched Project Excel and is the result of unprecedented collaboration between Alpine Canada, the Provincial/Territorial Sport Organizations, and the athletes and their families. The new program is focused on bringing Canadaโ€™s best U21 (possibly up to U24) athletes together and providing them with support and integration into the National Team to assist in accelerating development.

โ€œCongratulations to the athletes who have been nominated to the team. They have all put in significant effort on and off the snow to achieve this nomination. I am very excited for the introduction of the CAST D Team and look forward to all of our staff working to support the athletes on their journey to the podium.โ€
โ€” John Kucera, Menโ€™s Alpine Head Coach

Johnny Crichton, Vice President, B.C. Alpine said: โ€œWe are excited about the launch of the CAST D program.ย ย It was the #1 priority identified by the Project Excel working group and is an important initiative to sustain performance on the World Cup, World Championships, and Olympic Games after 2026.โ€

Pat Biggs, Executive Director, Alpine Ontario and Canadian Alpine Ski Team Alumni added, โ€œBringing together our best younger athletes, in a quality daily training environment, with the right competitive exposure and best coaching and technical leadership is imperative to prepare our athletes to compete with the best in the world.โ€

Athlete nominations are based on meeting published nomination criteria.ย Final team selection will be officially announced in the fall closer to the start of the season.

Mont-Tremblant, QC, Canada April 14 2023 – Alpine Canada Equipe Femme at Tremblant |
Image: Gary Yee (garyphoto.ca) via Alpine Canada Alpin

ALPINE

Women:

Ali Nullmeyer (Toronto, ON/Georgian Peaks Ski Club)
Amelia Smart (Invermere, BC/Panorama Ski Club)ย 
Arianne Forget
(Prรฉvost, QC/S1/Belle Neige)
Britt Richardson (Canmore, AB)/Calgary Alpine Racing Club)
Cassidy Gray (Panorama, BC/Team Panorama Ski Club)
Justine Lamontagne* (St-Ferrรฉol-les-Neiges, QC/Club de ski Mont Sainte -Anne)
Kiki (Kiara) Alexander (Sunshine Village, AB/ Alberta Ski Team)
Laurence St-Germain (St-Ferrรฉol-les-Neiges, QC/Club de ski Mont Sainte-Anne)
Valรฉrie Grenier (Mont-Tremblant, QC/Club de ski Mont-Tremblant)

* Nominated as an alternate
Slalom Podium
2023 World Championship Slalom Podium: 1st Laurence St. Germain, 2nd Mikaela Shiffrin, 3rd Lena Dรผrr | Picture: FIS Instagram Page

Men:ย 

Asher Jordan (North Vancouver, BC/ Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Broderick Thompson (Whistler, BC/Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Brodie Seger (North Vancouver, BC/Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Cameron Alexander (North Vancouver, BC/Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
James Crawford (Toronto, ON/Georgian Peaks Ski Club & Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Jeffrey Read (Canmore, AB/Banff Alpine Racers)
Kyle Alexander (North Vancouver, BC/Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Liam Wallace (Calgary, AB/Sunshine Alpine Racers)
Riley Seger (North Vancouver, BC/Whistler Mountain Ski Club)

CAST D

Women:

Amรฉlie Bourgeois (St-Bruno, QC/Mont-Avalanche)
Andreea Nicolici (Ottawa, ON/Camp Fortune Ski Club)
Anne-Catherine Thรฉbergeย (Lac-Beauport,ย QC/Stoneham Ski Club)
Estelle Martin (Outremont, QC/Sutton Ski Club)
Kendra Giesbrecht (St. Albert, AB/Banff Alpine Racers)
Roxy Coatesworth (Golden, BC/Black Dog Ski Club)

Men:

Jesse Kertesz-Knight (Jasper, AB/Banff Alpine Racers)
Kyle Blandford (Oakville, ON/Toronto Ski Club)
Pierick Charest (Blainville, QC/Tremblant Ski Club)
Sascha Gilbert (Whistler, BC/Whistler Mountain Ski Club)

SKI CROSS

Women:

Abby McEwen (Edmonton, AB/Sunridge Ski Club)
Brittany Phelan (Mont-Tremblant, QC/Mont-Tremblant Ski Club)
Courtney Hoffos (Windermere, BC/Windermere Ski Club)
Hannah Schmidt (Ottawa, ON/Mont-Tremblant Ski Club)
India Sherret (Cranbrook, BC/Kimberley Alpine Team)
Marielle Thompson (Whistler, BC/Whistler Mountain Ski Club)
Tiana Gairns (Prince George, BC/Prince George Ski Club)

Men:

Carson Cook (Edmonton, AB/Snow Valley Ski Club)
Gavin Rowell (Prince George, BC, Prince George Ski Club)
Jared Schmidt (Ottawa, ON/Mont-Tremblant Ski Club)
Kevin Drury (Toronto, ON/Georgian Peaks Ski Club)
Kris Mahler (Canmore AB/Craigleith Ski Club)
Reece Howden (Chilliwack, BC/Apex Ski Club)

NATIONAL NEXTGEN GROUP

Women:

Emeline Bennett (North Vancouver, BC/Whistler Mountain Ski Club/Evolve Ski Cross Club)

Men:

Garrett Musgrave (Lloydminster, AB/Table Mountain Ski Club/Evolve Ski Cross Club)
Kaleb Barnum (Fernie, BC/Fernie Alpine Si Team/Evolve Ski Cross Club)
Nick Katrusiak (Whistler, BC/Whistler Mountain Ski Club/Evolve Ski Cross Club)
Zachary Reynolds (Lac-Sainte-Marie, QC/Mont Ste-Marie Ski Club/Evolve Ski Cross Club)

PARA-ALPINE

Women:

Frรฉdรฉrique Turgeon (Candiac, QC/clubย deย ski Bromont)
Katie Combaluzier (Toronto, ON/Craigleith Ski Club)
Michaela Gosselin (Collingwood, ON/Osler Bluff Ski Club)
Mollie Jepsen (West Vancouver, BC/Whistler Mountain Ski Club)

Men:

Alexis Guimond (Gatineau, QC/Club de Ski Mont Tremblant)
Brian Rowland (Merrickville, ON/Calabogie Peaks Ski Club)
Kurt Oatway (Calgary, AB/Regina Alpine Race Team)
Kalle Ericsson (Kimberley, BC/ Kimberley Ski Club)ย (Guide: Sierra Smith (Ottawa, ON/Mont Ste-Marie Ski Club)

Members of Alpine Canadaโ€™s Para-Alpine Team at Senior Nationals in Winter Park in April 2024. | Image: Alpine Canada

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