Kristen Bourne Race Report: Cross Country World Cup, Goms, Switzerland 2024

February 14, 2024
Kristen Bourne has coached cross country skiing at the collegiate and professional level for the past four years. She was the assistant coach at The College of Saint Scholastica for two years where she was a 2021 Women’s Sports Foundation Tara VanDerveer Fellow. During the summer, she was an assistant coach with the Craftsbury Green Racing Project professional team in Vermont.

Prior to coaching, she skied for Northern Michigan University for five years, qualifying for the NCAA Championships three-times and representing the United States at the World Junior Championships and U23 World Championships in 2015 and 2016. After college, she moved to Oslo, Norway where she skied full-time and was an intern at the Norwegian School of Sports Science.

Currently, Kristen is the US Ski Cross Country D-Team World Cup coach at US Ski and Snowboard. She oversees the top junior and U23 athletes in the US as well as travels full-time on the World Cup supporting all national team athletes. She is also a graduate student at the College of Saint Scholastica studying Exercise Physiology.

When Kristen is not working or studying, she can be found hanging out with her dogs and spending time outdoors with her friends and family.

Kristen on IG
Kristen in Episode 142
US Ski & Snowboard
National Nordic Foundation Trail to Gold Fellowship
Trail to Gold book
Sam Benzing, Head Coach for Nordic Skiing, Harvard
Julia Kern
Anna Seebacher, Austrian tech
Women Coaches & Leaders: Title IX’s Impact & Future Promise Town Hall: Moderator Patti Phillips, CEO of Women Leaders in College Sports, is joined by panelists Kristen Bourne, Muffet McGraw (Ep104) and Gloria Nevarez