Park City athletes named to national winter sports teams

At least 15 athletes with ties to Park City earned spots on U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s 2026-27 national teams across six programs, including alpine, freestyle, cross-country and ski jumping.

The Park City-headquartered organization announced its rosters in October. The local contingent includes alpine skiers Lindsey Vonn, Lauren Macuga and Annika Hunt, ski jumper Josie Johnson and para alpine skier Saylor O’Brien, according to TownLift.

Freestyle skiers Tasia Tanner, Nick Page, Cole McDonald and Alli Macuga also made the teams, along with cross-country skier Sydney Palmer-Leger and freeskiers Marin Hamill, Henry Townshend, Marty Kingston, Troy Podmilsak and Rell Harwood.

Johnson, 20, moved up to the women’s ski jumping A Team after recording a top-10 World Cup finish before suffering a knee injury at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games, U.S. Ski & Snowboard announced. She spent the summer rehabilitating. The ski jumping World Cup season begins in Lillehammer, Norway, in late November.

On the alpine side, Vonn returns to the roster while recovering from injuries sustained at the Milano Cortina Games. Macuga joins her on the A Team, while Hunt is on the C Team, according to the official alpine announcement.

The alpine World Cup opens Oct. 24–25 in Sölden, Austria.

Palmer-Leger joins the cross-country Development Team. The official roster lists Park City as her hometown, Mansfield Nordic Pro Team as her club and the University of Utah as her college affiliation. Cross-country World Cup racing begins Nov. 27–29 in Ruka, Finland.

O’Brien, whose hometown is listed as Woodland and whose club is the National Ability Center, returns to the para alpine B Team.

In freestyle, Tanner is on the aerials B Team. Page joins the moguls A Team, while Alli Macuga and McDonald are on the moguls B Team, according to the freestyle roster.

Hamill, Harwood and Podmilsak are on the freeski slopestyle and big air Pro Team. Townshend and Kingston are on the Rookie Team, with Kingston newly named this season, according to the freeski announcement.

The season includes the alpine world championships Feb. 1–14 in Crans Montana, Switzerland, and the Nordic world championships Feb. 24–March 7 in Falun, Sweden.