Bill Marolt, USSA President & CEO says:

"today, I am happy to announce that I have selected two-time Olympian Luke Bodensteiner as the vice president, athletics. Luke grew up competing in the USSA pipeline, had great success as an athlete and has a track record of accomplishment in his 12 years with our organization.

As vice president, athletics, Luke will oversee the integration of the USSA's six sports under a unified strategic plan. The plan will emphasize high performance services to those sport programs in sport education, sport science and sports medicine, as part of a consolidated effort to achieve our vision of being the best in the world.

After starting with the USSA developing what is now known as the cross country SuperTour in 1996, Luke was named cross country manager in 1997, nordic director in 2001 and associate athletic director for high performance in March of this year. Under his leadership, the USSA has seen some of its strongest nordic performances ever with nordic combined World Championship gold and silver from Johnny Spillane and Billy Demong. Under his long-term direction, the U.S. Ski Team has enjoyed some of its greatest cross country success with the USA now challenging for wins.

Luke has shown his skills as a talented and innovative leader. Coupled with the strong leadership already in place in each of our sport programs, Luke will be responsible for ensuring that those programs have maximum impact toward achieving our goal of being best in the world.

Sincerely,

Bill Marolt
President and CEO"