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

By Ryan Odeja - Stifel U.S. Ski Team
May, 15 2025
Andrew Kurka

Park City, UT (May 15, 2025) - U.S. Ski & Snowboard officially announces the 12 athletes who have been nominated to the 2025-26 Stifel U.S. Para Alpine Ski Team across all classifications and disciplines. 

The U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team announces its teams in two phases: nomination and acceptance. The athletes are formally nominated to the Stifel U.S. Para Alpine Ski Team in May. Pending their acceptance of the nomination and adherence to the team expectations outlined in team criteria, athletes will be officially announced to the team in September 2025. 

Heading into a Paralympic season in Milan Cortina, the team is highlighted by Paralympic gold medalist Andrew Kurka, two-time Paralympian and Paralympic silver medalist Thomas Walsh and established up-and-comers Andrew Haraghey and Audrey Crowley. Crowley wrapped up her 2024-25 season with a World Championship bronze medal and multiple U.S. Championship titles. 

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 Saylor O’Brien and Tyler McKenzie, who made huge impacts on the World Cup circuit during the 2024-25 season with multiple World Cup podiums..

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

(Hometown; Club; College; Birthdate)

A TEAM
Women

  • Audrey Crowley (Grafton, WI; Ski & Snowboard Club Vail; 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)
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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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Audrey Crowley
Audrey was born in small town Wisconsin and grew up skiing on a 196 vertical foot hill with her family.
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.
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.
Spencer Wood
Spencer started skiing very young and even started racing at age five.
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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.
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.
Patrick Halgren
Patrick Halgren’s favorite part about alpine skiing is the connection between technique and speed. “You can’t fake fast,” says Halgren.
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.