USSA announces Bodensteiner as VP of Athletics

The U.S Ski and Snowboard Association announced today that it has selected two-time Olympian Luke Bodensteiner as its Vice President of Athletics. Bodensteiner grew up competing in the USSA pipeline and had great success as a cross-country skier. He will now look to add to his 12-year track record of accomplishment with the organization.

The U.S Ski and Snowboard Association announced today that it has selected two-time Olympian Luke Bodensteiner as its Vice President of Athletics. Bodensteiner grew up competing in the USSA pipeline and had great success as a cross-country skier. He will now look to add to his 12-year track record of accomplishment with the organization.

As vice president of athletics, Bodensteiner will oversee the integration of the USSA's six sports under a unified strategic plan. The plan will emphasize high performance services to those sport programs in sport education, sport science and sports medicine, as part of a consolidated effort to achieve the organization’s goal of being the best in the world.

After starting with the USSA developing what is now known as the cross country SuperTour in 1996, Bodensteiner was named cross-country manager in 1997, nordic director in 2001 and associate athletic director for high performance in March of this year. Under his leadership, the USSA has seen some of its strongest nordic performances ever with nordic combined World Championship gold and silver from Johnny Spillane and Billy Demong. Under his long-term direction, the U.S. Ski Team has enjoyed some of its greatest cross-country success with the USA now challenging for wins.

“Luke has shown his skills as a talented and innovative leader. Coupled with the strong leadership already in place in each of our sport programs,” Bill Marolt,
President and CEO of the USSA says. “Luke will be responsible for ensuring that those programs have maximum impact toward achieving our goal of being best in the world.”

Bodensteiner will start his new job immediately. "We have an incredible skiing and snowboarding culture that’s been developed by the hard work of hundreds of clubs, resorts and venues, thousands of coaches, a strong industry, and the ambitions of tens of thousands of athletes," said Bodensteiner in a statement on usskiteam.com. "Ultimately, our job is to enable more of those athletes to achieve their goals than ever before."