SALT LAKE CITY – University of Utah director of snowboarding Fredrik Landstedt has been named Coach of the Year by the Utah Sports Commission, introduced on Monday morning.
Landstedt can be acknowledged in April at the Governor’s State of Sport Awards. The Utah Ski Team was beforehand honored as Team of the Year throughout the 2023 iteration of the awards occasion.
Since arriving in Salt Lake City in July 2018, Landstedt has reestablished the Utah Ski Team as a nationwide energy at the collegiate stage. Landstedt has led the Utes to 6 of the final seven NCAA Championships (2019, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’25, ’26) plus a nationwide runner-up end in 2024.
No different program in the mixed-gender period of NCAA snowboarding has loved such a run, which included 4 straight staff titles from 2019-23. A nation-leading 108 NCAA All-America awards and 16 particular person NCAA championships have been collected by Utah skiers with Landstedt at the helm.
The final two titles have been particularly memorable as Utah needed to battle again from deficits to win the 2025 and 2026 championship meets. Most just lately, the Utes got here out on prime in a back-and-forth battle on residence snow, keyed by 15 All-American honors and particular person championships for Johs Braathen Herland (males’s big slalom) and Mons Melbye (males’s 20K freestyle). The staff title got here as the Utes battled accidents and sickness all through the season.
With Landstedt at the helm, the 2025 squad placed on one other particular show of resilience. The Utes have been third in the meet standings after the first day of competitors and trailed by 61 factors. It was not insurmountable by any means, however the staff wanted to show the web page shortly from slalom and reply with strong outcomes the ultimate three days. They definitely did: Erica Lavén had a commanding victory in the ladies’s 7.5K traditional earlier than Herland saved the momentum going with a title in males’s big slalom. Joe Davies helped placed on the exclamation level with a commanding victory—by over a minute—in the males’s 20K freestyle as Utah returned to the pinnacle of the collegiate snowboarding world.
Combined between the 2022 and 2026 Winter Olympics, 14 athletes with Utah Ski Team connections have earned the privilege to characterize their international locations both as an athlete or coach. Eleven of the 14 have been coached in some unspecified time in the future by Landstedt and his workers at Utah.
For all the highlights on snow, his student-athletes have been simply as profitable in the classroom. Since 2018, eight Academic All-America nods have gone to the Utes. In 2023-24, each the males’s and girls’s groups earned an ideal 100% Graduation Success Rate (GSR) from the NCAA.
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Landstedt can be acknowledged in April at the Governor’s State of Sport Awards. The Utah Ski Team was beforehand honored as Team of the Year throughout the 2023 iteration of the awards occasion.
Since arriving in Salt Lake City in July 2018, Landstedt has reestablished the Utah Ski Team as a nationwide energy at the collegiate stage. Landstedt has led the Utes to 6 of the final seven NCAA Championships (2019, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’25, ’26) plus a nationwide runner-up end in 2024.
No different program in the mixed-gender period of NCAA snowboarding has loved such a run, which included 4 straight staff titles from 2019-23. A nation-leading 108 NCAA All-America awards and 16 particular person NCAA championships have been collected by Utah skiers with Landstedt at the helm.
The final two titles have been particularly memorable as Utah needed to battle again from deficits to win the 2025 and 2026 championship meets. Most just lately, the Utes got here out on prime in a back-and-forth battle on residence snow, keyed by 15 All-American honors and particular person championships for Johs Braathen Herland (males’s big slalom) and Mons Melbye (males’s 20K freestyle). The staff title got here as the Utes battled accidents and sickness all through the season.
With Landstedt at the helm, the 2025 squad placed on one other particular show of resilience. The Utes have been third in the meet standings after the first day of competitors and trailed by 61 factors. It was not insurmountable by any means, however the staff wanted to show the web page shortly from slalom and reply with strong outcomes the ultimate three days. They definitely did: Erica Lavén had a commanding victory in the ladies’s 7.5K traditional earlier than Herland saved the momentum going with a title in males’s big slalom. Joe Davies helped placed on the exclamation level with a commanding victory—by over a minute—in the males’s 20K freestyle as Utah returned to the pinnacle of the collegiate snowboarding world.
Combined between the 2022 and 2026 Winter Olympics, 14 athletes with Utah Ski Team connections have earned the privilege to characterize their international locations both as an athlete or coach. Eleven of the 14 have been coached in some unspecified time in the future by Landstedt and his workers at Utah.
For all the highlights on snow, his student-athletes have been simply as profitable in the classroom. Since 2018, eight Academic All-America nods have gone to the Utes. In 2023-24, each the males’s and girls’s groups earned an ideal 100% Graduation Success Rate (GSR) from the NCAA.
Follow the Utah Ski Team
Follow the Utah Ski Team on social media @utahskiteam. Download the Utah 360 app here.