On today’s show, Sean Higgins sits down with NBC Sports’ Steve Porino to talk all about this weekend’s World Cup slalom opener in Levi, Finland, and discuss the outlook for the rest of the season in slalom. Can anyone beat Mikaela Shiffrin? Who will step up in a crowded men’s field with the retirement of Marcel Hirscher? We cover all of that and more in this week’s episode. Steve and the Ski Racing Media team were fortunate enough to spend last week in Copper Mountain, Colorado, and were able...

On this week's Tips and Tales, Sean Higgins sits down with U.S. Ski Team star Ryan Cochran-Siegle. Ryan has been steadily climbing the ranks of the World Cup in recent years and kicked his season off last month in Soelden with an 11th place finish, which was also his best opening racer ever on the World Cup. Ryan also made his first career appearance at World Cup Finals last spring in super-G and is currently the only skier on the men’s team that bridges the gap between speed and tech on the...

On this week’s show, Sean Higgins and Mackenzie Moran will be recapping all the action from last weekend’s World Cup opener in Soelden, Austria. Sean and Mackenzie talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly from the weekend and discuss the bizarre equipment saga of one of Austria's top women's skiers, Katharina Liensberger. A little later in the show, Mackenzie got the chance to interview rising U.S. Ski Team technical star and multiple time U.S. National Champion, Nina O’Brien. Nina started...

World Cup racing is back! On this week's episode of Tips and Tales, Sean Higgins and Mackenzie Moran dive head-first back into the World Cup and take a look at what to expect from the upcoming season opener in Soelden, Austria, the things we’re looking to see out of the first few races, and the storylines we will be following all winter long. A little later in the show, Sean sits down for an interview with U.S. Ski & Snowboard Director of Sport Education, Gareth Trayner, where they talk...

On this week's episode of Tips and Tales, we talk with Team X’s Head of Strength and Conditioning and Assistant Coach, Coley Oliver. Last summer, the all-female Team X was formed in Park City with the goal of supporting elite-level female skiers and their post-graduate ski racing ambitions. It just so happened they were looking for another coach too. It was an opportunity Oliver simply couldn’t pass up so he packed up his truck and made the move back home to Utah. With strong results across...

The U.S. Ski Team's Jacqueline Wiles has been on quite the journey over the past year and a half. At 27-years-old, Wiles has been a rising star on the powerhouse U.S. women’s World Cup speed team for a number of years now and has earned her way to two third-place downhill finishes on the World Cup, one coming in 2017 in Altenmark-Zauchensee, Austria, and the other coming almost exactly one year later in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, site of the 2021 World Championships. Unofortunately, that...

On this week's Tips and Tales, Sean Higgins has a conversation with Canadian Olympian, World Cup winner, and World Championship silver medalist Dustin Cook. Dustin made his World Cup debut way back in 2010 and enjoyed a slow and steady progression on tour, scoring points in giant slalom, super-G, and combined before his breakthrough silver medal performance in the 2015 World Championship super-G in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Not only did he shock the field — and himself — that day, but the...

On this week's episode of Tips and Tales, host Sean Higgins chats with World Cup skier Robby Kelley about his newest athletic challenge, becoming a college football player. Kelley is an immensely talented athlete and was an all-state soccer player and state champion in baseball as a high schooler in addition to making two World Championship teams in ski racing in 2013 and 2017. Kelley and Higgins talk about everything from his decision to return to school to his recent struggles with injury...

On this week's episode of Tips and Tales, Sean Higgins talks with rising American World Cup slalom star Paula Moltzan. Moltzan was a member of the national team for many years and even won a gold medal at the 2015 World Junior Championships before getting dropped from the team a year later. After three successful seasons racing NCAA for the University of Vermont, she clawed her way back to the World Cup and thanks to some impressive performances earned a spot back on the national team for...

On this week's episode of Tips and Tales we head back up the the Great White North as Canadian podcast intern, Patrick Carry, sits down and talks with a pair of rising young Canadian Ski Team talents, Simon Fournier and Sam Mulligan. Fournier and Mulligan had some pretty breakthrough seasons last year with Simon breaking through first on the NorAm circuit before making his first World Championship team last February in Are, Sweden, and Sam becoming more and more comfortable on the World Cup...

On this week's show, Sean Higgins sits down with the men of the U.S. Ski Team's Europa Cup group. This group of young, enthusiastic skiers has really been leading the charge as of late on the men’s side when it comes to team culture and what it really means to be a teammate on the U.S. Ski Team. We talked about everything from the team’s new tagline #slamifestdestiny, their historic team performances at last season’s World Junior Championships, to how competitive each of them is during their...

On today’s show, we have a very special guest, the leader of the American Downhillers and genuinely one of the nicest guys you could ever meet, the U.S. Ski Team’s Steven Nyman. Sean Higgins was able to sit down with Steven at his home in Park City in-between his workouts and his dad-time with his two-year-old daughter, Nell, and the two talked about everything from his humble beginnings at the small Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah, his plans for the coming season, to how he approaches his...

On this week's show, new podcast contributor and Montana State University student-athlete, Partick Carry, sits down for a conversation with Canadian national team member and 2018 Olympian, Broderick Thompson. Thompson had a breakout year on the World Cup two season ago and he talks about what he and his teammates on the Canadian team are up to this summer, rebounding from a season-ending injury that took him out for all of last season, and although he made his World Cup breakthrough in the...

On this week's episode of Tips and Tales, Sean Higgins talks with U.S. Ski & Snowboard Alpine Masters Manager, Lauren Beckos, to learn all about this unique racing community. Masters racing is diverse with ex-national team skiers at times skiing the same courses as middle-aged newbies to the sport. If you're over 18 and are looking to experience the sport at a higher level than a casual run or two down a NASTAR course or are a former racer looking to get your competitive juices flowing...

On this week's Tips and Tales, Sean Higgins sits down for an in-depth interview with U.S. Ski & Snowboard Alpine Director, Jesse Hunt. The pair talks all about the first year of Hunt's second tenure as Alpine Director and where he sees the future of the U.S. Ski Team going in the next several years. Everything from junior development, team culture, athlete funding, to just what is going on with men’s World Cup slalom are all topics discussed on this week's show.

On this week's episode of Tips and Tales, Sean Higgins sits down with U.S. Ski & Snowboard Director of Competition services, Jeff Weinman, to talk all about the new FIS point changes that are going into effect for this coming season and how it effects you. Spoiler alert: your points are going up but you shouldn’t bee too worried about that.

On this week's episode of Tips and Tales, Sean Higgins sat down with Canadian rising star Trevor Philp to talk about the impressive end to his season and his ski racing journey from his childhood at Mt. Norquay to his first appearance at World Cup Finals this spring. Also, as we enter the off season, Tips and Tales will be publishing on an every-other Wednesday basis until World Cup racing rolls around again in October.

NASTAR National Championships took place last week at Squaw Valley, California, and team Ski Racing Media was on-site to catch all the action. This week, Mackenzie Moran sits down with Ski Racing Media Publisher and NASTAR National Pacesetter Claire Brown to talk all things NASTAR. Mackenzie also sat down with U.S. Ski Team athlete Laurenne Ross to talk about her most recent setback with injury and her plans for the future.

Have you ever wondered how the staff at Ski Racing Media covers the World Cup each season? Sean Higgins and Mackenzie Moran break down just how they get it done during the winter and share a few stories from their adventures on the road. Ski Racing intern and Dartmouth student-athlete Jimmy Krupka is also back with an interview with former NCAA champion and current World Cup skier Brian McLaughlin.

On this week's episode of Tips and Tales, Ski Racing Media is joined by the voice of ski racing in the United States, NBC's Steve Porino. Steve has been covering the sport for over two decades and joins Sean Higgins for a discussion about this past season, the greatness of Mikaela Shiffrin and Marcel Hirscher, as well as a few other stories that grabbed our attention this winter.

Due to travel and race schedules, we will not be recording a Tips and Tales show for this week but fret not because we will be back next Wednesday with another episode, recapping the whole World Cup season and talking about everything else going on in the world of ski racing. Thank you for your understanding and we’ll talk to you all next week.

The regular Word Cup season wrapped up last weekend in the Czech Republic and Slovenia, what should you watch for at this week's World Cup Finals in Soldeu, Andorra? NCAA's also finished up last week and Ski Racing Media intern and Dartmouth College Student-Athlete, Jimmy Krupka, sat down with the head alpine coach of the 2019 NCAA champion Utah Utes, JJ Johnson, to get his thoughts on the week of racing in Vermont.

World Cups in Kvitfjell, Russian cancellations, NCAA Talk, and an interview with U.S. Ski & Snowboard's Chip Knight.

Crans Montana timing fiasco, Bansko World Cups, World Juniors, and more parallel talk.

2019 World Championships, Stockholm city event, and POC's Zach Clayton.  February 20, 2019.