Vail Coach to Join U.S. Ski Team

By U.S. Ski & Snowboard

January, 21 2015

VAIL, CO (Jan. 21, 2015) – The U.S. Ski Team has announced the addition of Brandon Dyksterhouse to its women’s technical team as part of a unique partnership with Ski and Snowboard Club Vail. Dyksterhouse, a former national level racer and longtime ski coach, will join the Team as interim women’s tech head coach through the remainder of the season to provide support to Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin and the women’s slalom and giant slalom squad.

According to U.S. Ski Team Alpine Director Patrick Riml, the partnership grew out of Dyksterhouse’s work with Team athletes in Vail. He will join a staff that includes Luca de Marchi and Gary Miller. He has already begun working with Team athletes training in Colorado and will remain through World Championships in Vail/Beaver Creek and on through the World Cup Finals.

HIGHLIGHTS

Brandon Dyksterhouse, the current Athletic Director at the award-winning Ski and Snowboard Club Vail, will join the U.S. Ski Team’s women’s technical staff for the remainder of the season.
A 2000 graduate of the University of Vermont where he was an NCAA champion, Dyksterhouse was a national ranked athlete who trained with the U.S. Ski Team.
He went on to collegiate coaching, working on the staff of the Univ. of New Mexico Lobos, winning an NCAA title in 2004. He went on to coach at the Green Mountain Valley School in Vermont, later coaching in Canada before returning to the USA to help lead the Front Range Ski Club in Colorado. He is now in his second season as athletic director for Ski and Snowboard Club Vail, which won the USSA’s Club of the Year honors in 2014.
He will work with the entire tech team, including Olympic Champion Mikaela Shiffrin.

QUOTES

Patrick Riml, U.S. Ski Team Alpine Director

Brandon is an outstanding coach who worked very successfully with athletes across the United States and Canada. With his knowledge and leadership, he is a great addition to our Team and I am confident he will make a difference and will help our athletes to reach their goals. I am very thankful to Aldo Radamus and Ski and Snowboard Club Vail for the ongoing support and partnership in allowing Brandon to join us for the rest of the season.

Aldo Radamus, Executive Director, Ski and Snowboard Club Vail

Our club is honored to partner with the U.S. Ski Team with this unique relationship to have Brandon take a leave to join the women’s tech staff for the season. He is a remarkable coach who will make a difference and then bring the knowledge he gains back to Ski and Snowboard Club Vail.

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