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Countdown to 2010 – Interview with US XC Ski Team Coach Pete Vordenberg in Lake Placid

by Nat Herz
Pete Vordenberg - US XC Ski Team Coach. ©Scott Sine
October 27, 2009 (Lake Placid, NY) – As the head coach of the U.S. Ski Team since 2006, Pete Vordenberg has overseen some of the biggest successes of the program in the last 20 years. Kikkan Randall’s silver medal at the 2009 World Championships cemented the team’s status as one of the best on the planet, and expectations are high going into the 2010 Olympic Games in Whistler.

Before beginning his career as a coach, Vordenberg was an accomplished athlete, competing in the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympic Games, and he wrote a book, Momentum, about his athletic endeavors. For four years he coached the Americans as an assistant alongside Trond Nystad, and since being appointed as head coach he has gained a reputation for his “dogged persistence tempered with flexibility,” as Andrew Gardner writes on Johnny Klister.

I sat in on a workout with Vordenberg and the U.S. Ski Team during their recent camp in Lake Placid, and afterwards we met up for a chat in the cafeteria of the Olympic Training Center. We started out discussing the team’s drive toward this year’s Olympic Games in Whistler.

Pete Vordenberg in Lake Placid

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