Women’s Alpine Staff Adds New Energy
PARK CITY, UT (April 14, 2015) – Former Italian Men’s Speed Coach Alberto Senigagliesi has joined the U.S. Ski Team women’s alpine speed team staff as head coach, while interim coach Brandon Dyksterhouse will head up the women’s alpine tech team.
Senigagliesi has a significant amount of experience in all aspects of the industry, bringing a holistic background to the U.S. Ski Team. His extensive experience includes a 12-year stint skiing on the Italian national speed team, coaching for Carrabassett Valley Academy (CVA), acting as the racing test manager for Rossignol, and, most recently, coaching for the Italian national team. He’s no stranger to the U.S. Ski Team, having acted as a guest coach in 2004 and 2005 for Topolino Trophee and World Junior Championships.
Brandon Dyksterhouse coaches Mikaela Shiffrin.
Dyksterhouse moves from an interim position to a full position with the U.S. Ski Team. This past January, he joined the team as part of a unique partnership with Ski and Snowboard Club Vail (SSCV) providing support to Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin (Vail, CO) and the women’s slalom and giant slalom squads. A graduate of the University of Vermont, where he was the NCAA GS champion in 1997, Dyksterhouse was a three-time All-American during his collegiate career. Following graduation, he was invited to train with the U.S. Ski Team for several seasons before going on to collegiate coaching, working on the staff of the University of New Mexico Lobos who captured an NCAA title in 2004. He also coached at the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont and later worked in Canada before returning to the U.S. to help lead the Front Range Ski Club in Colorado.
Since Dyksterhouse joined the team in January, Shiffrin successfully defended her slalom World Championship title on home turf, and went on to snag first place in the three final Audi FIS Alpine World Cup slalom races of the season, along with her third-straight crystal globe.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Former Italian national team member, Carrabasset Valley Academy coach, Rossignol racing test manager and Italian national team men’s speed coach Alberto Senigagliesi joins the U.S. Ski Team women’s alpine speed team as head coach.
- Senigagliesi will join longtime U.S. Ski Team coach Chris Knight as well as Martin Gray, and will work directly with athletes like Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO), Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA), and Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain, CA) who snagged a historic podium sweep in Lake Louise in 2014.
- 2015 interim coach Brandon Dyksterhouse will head up the U.S. Ski Team women’s tech team.
- Dyksterhouse joined the U.S. Ski Team as part of a unique partnership with Ski and Snowboard Club Vail (SSCV) in January, helping Shiffrin amass the World Championship slalom title, win the three final Audi FIS Alpine World Cup slalom races of the season and take her third-straight crystal globe in slalom.
QUOTES
Patrick Riml
Both Brandon and Alberto will bring value to our women’s program with their broad experience, which will help us continue to build strength in our programs.
Alberto Senigagliesi
I have been looking forward to working with the U.S. Ski Team for a long time. The Team has a really good organization—one of the best in the world.
I’m really motivated by the group—both coaching staff and athletes. It’s a very strong team, and I believe we will have a very strong group of four or five women consistently on the top. That is what I’m looking for—to continue to build a strong group on the mountain and maintain the energy off the hill as well among staff and athletes.
Brandon Dyksterhouse
I’m looking forward to this new role and the ability to work with the U.S. Ski Team throughout the full period. It was incredible to work with someone of Mikaela Shiffrin’s caliber as an interim coach this year and to watch her continue to have success—especially in a high-pressure environment. There are very few athletes who are defending World Champs who are able to repeat in their hometown in front of their home fans. That was quite a feat.