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2025-26 Stifel U.S. Para Alpine Ski Team Announced

By Ryan Odeja - Stifel U.S. Ski Team
October, 16 2025
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U.S. Ski & Snowboard officially announced the 12 athletes who have accepted their nominations and been named to the 2025-26 Stifel U.S. Para Alpine Ski Team roster across all classifications and disciplines. 

The 2025-26 Stifel U.S. Para Alpine Ski Team is highlighted by Paralympic gold medalist Andrew Kurka. He is joined by two-time Paralympian and Paralympic silver medalist Thomas Walsh and exciting up-and-comers Jesse Keefe and Audrey Crowley. Crowley had a standout 2024-25 season, including her first World Cup podiums and a bronze medal in giant slalom at the 2025 FIS Para Alpine World Championships. 

New to the team this year is Kelsey O’Driscoll, who came onto the scene last season and made it her own, finishing top-five at World Championships. Joining her are Tyler McKenzie and Saylor O’Brien, who made a big impact on the World Cup circuit during the 2024-25 season with multiple World Cup podiums.

“After showing strong improvements last season, the team has been putting in lots of work to start the off-season to prepare for a Paralympic year,” said Erik Leirfallom, U.S. Ski & Snowboard Para Sport Director. “With new fresh faces and accomplished veterans, I am excited to see all they can accomplish.”

The 2025-26 season is set to kick off in Steinach am Brenner, Austria, Dec. 10-12, 2025. The team will make stops in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and France through February before the top athletes head to represent Team USA at the 2026 Milano Cortina Paralympic Winter Games, Mar. 6-15, 2026. 

2025-26 Stifel U.S. Para Alpine Ski Team

(Hometown; Club; College; Birthdate)

A TEAM
Women

  • Audrey Crowley (Grafton, WI; Ski & Snowboard Club Vail; University of Denver; 3/1/2007)

Men

  • Patrick Halgren (Tolland, CT; National Sports Center for the Disabled; 6/24/1992)
  • Jesse Keefe (Sun Valley, ID; Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation; University of Colorado Colorado Springs; 3/26/2004)
  • Andrew Kurka (Palmer, AK; Alyeska Ski Club; 1/27/1992)
  • Thomas Walsh (Vail, CO; Ski & Snowboard Club Vail/Green Mountain Valley School; Savannah College of Art and Design/DeVry University; 1/30/1995)
  • Spencer Wood (Pittsfield, VT; Killington Mountain School; University of Colorado Boulder; 1/17/1997)

D TEAM
Women

  • Allie Johnson (Chicago, IL; National Sports Center for the Disabled; Colorado State University; 12/23/1994)
  • Saylor O’Brien (Woodland, UT; National Ability Center; 4/28/2003)
  • Kelsey O’Driscoll (Glens Falls, NY; National Sports Center for the Disabled; SUNY Adirondack; 1/24/1994)

Men

  • Ravi Drugan (Eugene, OR; Oregon Adaptive Sports; 12/19/1989)
  • Andrew Haraghey (Enfield, CT; National Ability Center; Westminster University; 12/16/1995)
  • Tyler McKenzie (Leominster, MA; National Ability Center; Bates College; 8/20/1991)
2025-26 PARA ALPINE COACHES AND STAFF

Chief of Sport: Anouk Patty
Para Sport Director: Erik Leirfallom 
Head Coach: Ryan Pearl
Assistant Coach: Lyndsay Strange
Assistant Coach: Sawyer Mattsson
Athletic Development Coach: Brian Neff 
Lead Para Alpine Service Technician: Chris Newey 
Para Press Officer: Ryan Odeja

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FOR MORE INFORMATION 
Ryan Odeja - Stifel U.S. Para Alpine Team Press Officer
ryan.odeja@usskiandsnowboard.org 

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Kelsey O'Driscoll
Kelsey grew up skiing at Gore Mountain and spent her summers surfing in New Jersey with her family, who described her as always "being fast and fearless." In 2019, she graduated from State University of New York (SUNY) Adirondack and became a registered nurse, living out her dreams of helping oth
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Audrey Crowley
Audrey was born in small town Wisconsin and grew up skiing on a 196 vertical foot hill with her family. Crowley was born without a fully developed right arm, but has grown up competitive in both adaptive and able-bodied races across the country.
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Tyler McKenzie
Tyler started skiing at age three with his dad and brother on a small hill at the local middle school. As he got older, he started skiing at Mt.
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Saylor O'Brien
Saylor O’Brien is an adaptive athlete and Paralympic hopeful in alpine skiing. Born with Spina Bifida and raised by athlete parents, it was only natural for her to find her way into sports.
Jesse Keefe
Having grown up in a passionate skiing family and an active ski town, Jesse found himself in skis at just two years old. Keefe was born without an ankle bone in his right leg; at 11 months old, he had his foot amputated.
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Allie Johnson
Johnson has been skiing since she was four years old, when she started with her family in Winter Park, Colorado. Ever since she was a little girl, she dreamed of skiing every day, but that was not quite a possibility while growing up in the suburbs of Chicago.
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Spencer Wood
Spencer started skiing very young and even started racing at age five. Wood was diagnosed with hemiplegia of the right side of his body as a baby due to a stroke; although he was diagnosed early in life, Spencer’s parents didn’t tell him about the diagnosis until he was 10.
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Thomas Walsh
At the age of two, Walsh began skiing, and by the age of five was ski racing. As an avid athlete, he was also active in the arts and has been acting since the age of six.
Andrew Kurka
Kurka’s first Olympic dream wasn’t on the slopes but on the wrestling mat, as he was a six-time Alaskan state champion in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.
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Andrew Haraghey
When Andrew was six months old, he contracted viral encephalitis, which resulted in cerebral palsy. This presents as severe muscle tension from the waist down. Andrew started skiing at seven and began racing a few years later.
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Patrick Halgren
Patrick Halgren’s favorite part about alpine skiing is the connection between technique and speed. “You can’t fake fast,” says Halgren.
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Ravi Drugan
Ravi Drugan was born in Treasure Island, Florida, before moving to Eugene, Oregon, with his family. In 2004, Ravi lost both of his legs after surviving being hit by a train. His injury led his parents to introduce him to alpine skiing through Oregon Adaptive Sports.