Starting July 1, Osi Inglin will join Ski & Snowboard Club Vail (SSCV) as its new head alpine FIS coach, overseeing the entire FIS program along with coaching responsibility for the women’s team. Not only does Inglin have over 20 years of international coaching experience from the development to World Cup level, but he has been in the United States before, previously serving as head women’s coach at the Green Mountain Valley School in 2002.

Inglin has coached some of the best alpine racers in the world over the course of his career, including Didier Cuche, Didier Defago, Carlo Janka, Beat Feuz, Fabienne Suter, Micheal von Gruenigen, and Sonja Nef. Most recently, Inglin worked with the Swiss men’s C team during the time when Marco Odermatt won the 2016 FIS Junior World Ski Championship giant slalom title. Odermatt and teammate Loic Meillard are currently ranked first in the world in their respective birth years – 1997 and 1996 – in giant slalom.

“I am thrilled to have Osi join our alpine staff,” said Karen Ghent, SSCV alpine program director. “With the growth in our U19 athlete group it is the ideal time for the organization to bring on a head FIS coach to oversee the entire FIS program.”

Inglin echoed Ghent’s feelings.

“I am really excited to join the Ski & Snowboard Club Vail FIS alpine program for the coming years,” he said. “It is a big challenge for me to bring these young and talented athletes to their highest level.  It’s very important to me that the entire FIS staff is working together closely to push the program forward.”

Inglin is not the only international coach making a career move this spring. Professionals around the globe are packing their bags for new teams while some are more simply moving up the ranks.

Frédéric Perrin
After nine years with the French national team and an incredibly successful 2016 season with the men’s tech group, Stéphane Quittet is departing for personal reasons. Frédéric Perrin, already member of the tech staff, was named the new head coach of the men’s technical team.

Steve Locher
Formerly with the Swiss team, Locher will head the Italian men’s technical team heading into the 2017 World Championships season.

Raimund Plancker
Raimund Plancker, who formerly held Locher’s new role with the tech squad, will shift to the Italian men’s speed coaching staff.

Matteo Guadagnini
Matteo Guadagnini, previously a men’s World Cup group coach, will take on a new role as the head coach of the Italian women’s team.

Jacques Théolier
Sweden welcomes Jacques Théolier as the men’s World Cup tech team head coach leading up to the World Championships in Are 2019.

Stefan Abplanalp
The former Swiss, Norwegian, and U.S. Ski Team coach will be working on behalf of the Hungarian Ski Association, focusing on World Cup speed skier Edit Miklos.

Luca Agazzi
One of Lara Gut’s former coaches, Luca Agazzi, joins the Canadian women’s team as an assistant coach.

Werner Franz
In Austria, the former World Cup racer will strengthen the men’s speed team as a c0-coach, lending his vast experience which includes 19 podiums and two victories to the squad which struggled to fulfill national expectations in 2016.

Willi Zechner
Zechner will work with the Austrian men’s speed team, specifically with new World Cup-level athletes and those returning from injury.

Johannes Zöchling
The Austrian joins the staff as a coach for the tech group on the women’s team.

Thomas Trinker
Trinker will take over the women’s giant slalom and alpine combined training group in Austria and provide a focus on giant slalom.

Johnny Davidson
The former Alpine Canada coach (and UVM Catamount!) now joins the Norwegian Ski Federation as head coach of the men’s Europa Cup team.

Livio Magoni
One of Tina Maze’s former coaches, Magoni will now work directly with Slovakian rising technical star Petra Vlhova.