At least 15 students and alumni will be competing in the Milan Cortina Games, continuing a long tradition of Dartmouth Winter Olympians.
The opening ceremony will be held Friday, Feb. 6, but some events, including curling, ice hockey, and snowboard competitions, begin before then.
Five Alpine skiers from Dartmouth are part of Team USA: Mary Bocock ’27, AJ Hurt ’23, Sam Morse ’20, Kyle Negomir ’23, and Nina O’Brien ’20.
Both Hurt and O’Brien also skied in the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.
Tanguy Nef ’20 will be skiing for Switzerland, and AJ Ginnis ’19 is representing Greece in Alpine competition. Ginnis will also be the first torchbearer for the Games.
Four Nordic skiers are also on Team USA: Rosie Brennan ’11, John Steel Hagenbuch ’25, Lauren Jortberg ’20, and Julia Kern ’19.
This is Brennan’s third Olympics. Kern competed four years ago in Beijing, as well.
Brennan is ranked in the top 10 globally and finished fourth in the sprint at the 2022 Olympics. Hagenbuch last year won his second straight 7.5K national championship at the NCAA championships at Dartmouth.
Meanwhile, Nordic standout Jasmine Drolet ’25 is competing for Team Canada. Drolet last year finished third in the 7.5K classic NCAA national championship, earning her second first-team All-American honor.
In hockey, goaltender Michaela Hesová ’28 is skating for Team Czechia, making her the 10th athlete from Big Green women’s hockey to participate in the Olympics.
One of her predecessors, three-time Olympian Laura Stacey ’16, will be back on the ice for Team Canada. Stacey won a silver in the 2018 Olympic Games in PyeongChang and a gold medal four years ago, when she had four goals and two assists.
And Bianca Ribi ’18 is making her Olympic debut as a pilot in two-woman bobsleigh for Team Canada.
Dartmouth student-athletes or alumni have participated in every Winter Olympics since the Winter Games began in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Dartmouth Olympians have competed more than 165 times in the Winter Games, including Milan Cortina, more than any other Ivy League school.
That number doesn’t include another key member of Team USA, four-time Olympian Mikaela Shiffrin, who skied as a child with the Ford Sayre Ski Club at the Dartmouth Skiway and Whaleback Mountain and received an honorary degree from Dartmouth last June.
