Alpine Ski
2025-2026 Highlights
The Alpine ski team turned in a strong 2025-26 campaign, highlighted by standout individual performances and steady team growth. The girls’ team delivered a consistent postseason performance, finishing second at the Conference Meet and sending a skier to the Class A State Alpine Meet at Giants Ridge on February 10, 2026.
Sophia Wenberg ’29 led the way, capturing the Conference individual title before placing ninth at the Class A State Meet to cap an impressive season.
On the boys’ side, the season was defined by resilience during a rebuilding year. Following the graduation of state champion Caden Burns ’25 and while navigating key injuries, younger skiers stepped into higher race start positions and embraced expanded roles. Their growth throughout the winter laid important groundwork for the program’s future.
All-Conference: Sophie Ferrer ’28, Juliette Smith ’27, Sophia Wenberg ’29
All-Conference Honorable Mention: Ingrid Colberg ’31, Evy Sachs ’26, Pike Marthaler ’28, Donek Marthaler ’29
Varsity Head Coach: Corey Marthaler
Sophia Wenberg ‘29 Qualifies for Alpine State Meet Sophia...
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Caden Burns ’25, Liam Burns ’28, and Sophia Wenberg...
The 2025 MSHSL Alpine Skiing State Meet took place at Giant’s Ridge on February 11, and Caden Burns ’25 earned the title of State Champion after a great performance at the meet, finishing in first place with a combined run time of 1:12.97. Other results from the State Meet included: Liam Burns ’28, who finished in 12th place (out of 88 boys), and Sophia Wenberg ’29, who finished in 14th place out of 87 girls.
All-Conference: Caden Burns ’25, Liam Burns ’28, Sophie Ferr ’28 and Sophia Wenberg ’29
All-Conference Honorable Mention: Donek Marthaler ‘30, Nicholas McCarthy ‘25, Evy Sachs ‘26 and Juliette Smith ‘27
Start Tribune Athlete of the Year: Caden Burns ’25
2024-2025 Captains: Mia Collins ’25, Evy Sachs ‘26, and Nicholas McCarthy ‘25
The Alpine Ski program is thriving with an ever-growing group of talented skiers across grades 7-12. Even with the unprecedented winter with record-low snowfall, the program made the most of its season. High temperatures made it nearly impossible for the local slopes to make snow, so the SPA skiers hit the weight room from November through December.
Once they were finally able to get outside, the coaches worked on teaching skiers of all levels with patience and a highly experienced coaching staff. The team acts as a co-ed program and practices at Buck Hill Ski Area in Burnsville.
All-Conference: Evy Sachs ‘26, McKinley Garner ‘24, and Liam Burns ‘28
2023-2024 Captains: Mia Collins ’25, Evy Sachs ‘26, and Nicholas McCarthy ‘25
SPA boys’ Alpine sent skier Henry Giles ’24 to the 2023 Minnesota State Alpine Championships. This marked the third year in a row that Henry has qualified for the state Alpine meet, which was held on February 14th, 2023 at Giants Ridge.
Henry qualified for State after his strong performance at the Section meet on February 8 at Wild Mountain. Henry placed 2nd in his race, finishing in 59.16. Head Coach Rob Thomas says Henry has a lot of positive momentum going into Tuesday’s meet: “Henry is skiing great right now and I look for him to build off his section meet success this Tuesday at Giants Ridge.”
All-Conference: Evy Sachs ‘26, Maya Sachs ‘23, and Wyatt Tait ‘23
All-Conference Honorable Mention: Rio Cox ‘23 and Juliette Smith ‘27
