Here are the members of Team USA going to the Milan-Cortina Olympics

The United States expects to send the most athletes ever to a Winter Games this year, announcing Monday that 232 members of Team USA are set to compete at the Milan-Cortina Olympics that begin Feb. 6.

The list includes 17 athletes whose hometown is in Utah, compared to 30 from Colorado, 24 from Minnesota and 19 from California, according to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

A total of 32 states and Washington, D.C. are represented on the team, while three Team USA members have international hometowns: Kaillie Humphries, from Calgary, Canada; Vadym Kolesnik from Kharkiv, Ukraine; and Campbell Wright, from Wanaka, New Zealand.

The Utah Sports Commission said there are 81 Team USA members with ties to the state, including those who are currently living and training here, or who are attending or have attended school in Utah.

“These athletes represent the best of what Utah offers the world of Olympic and Paralympic sport,” said Jeff Robbins, commission president and CEO. “Whether training, studying, or growing up here, their journeys reflect the state’s Olympic and Paralympic heritage and its ongoing commitment.”

Utah’s Team USA role

Utah is considered a top winter sports training site largely due to the competition venues built for the 2002 Winter Games that will be used again when the state hosts a second Olympics and Paralympics for athletes with disabilities in 2034.

“We see Utah as a critical state for the future of Team USA, and actually for the team that’s competing right now,” Rocky Harris, the USOPC’s chief of sport and athlete services, told reporters. “We really appreciate the support that that state has given us for many years.”

Calling Utah “a strategic priority for us, for Team USA, for decades,” he cited the many national governing bodies for winter sports headquartered in Utah as well as the hundreds of elite athletes training in the state annually.

“It’s a place we believe really has the intention of growing winter sport, not only in their state, not only in our country, but across the world,” he said, adding Utah “gives currently competing and future athletes, with the home Games there in 2034, the opportunity to dream big.”

Harris, who’ll lead the American team in Milan-Cortina as “chef de mission,” said the Colorado Springs-based USOPC is “very proud” of the youth and grassroots programs in Utah that provide “a future pipeline to Team USA.”

He said the USOPC has “a lot of confidence in the 2026 team because our winter sports programs have made significant progress” since the last Winter Games, in 2022 in Beijing, when Team USA finished third in the medal count behind Norway and Germany.

There’s been significant investment in coaches, athlete stipends, technology, equipment, access to snow and ice for training “and so much more,” Harris said. He also expressed confidence in Milan-Cortina organizers, who are still finishing some facilities.

“It’s no secret they’re working overtime right now,” Harris said. “It’s a huge and very complicated process and we are extremely grateful. ... We have confidence in the organizing committee, the world-class venues and the people of Italy to deliver and unbelievable Games.”

What Team USA athletes say about the Olympics

Speedskater Erin Jackson, heading to her third Olympics after winning gold in Beijing, said she and her teammates are looking forward to the first post-COVID-19 Winter Games. Jackson said having fans back in the stands adds “a lot of spark, a lot of energy.”

Hockey player Brady Tkachuk, captain of Canada’s Ottawa Senators, told reporters about bringing his father Keith’s silver medal from the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City to show-and-tell as a second grader.

Then, the St. Louis native said, he had no idea of its significance but recalled his classmates “thought it was the coolest thing ever.” Now, Tkachuk and his brother, Matthew, of the Florida Panthers, are following in their father’s footsteps as members of the U.S. Olympic hockey team.

“It’s more than a dream. I can’t believe that it’s soon to be real life,” Tkachuk said. Their father, he said, hasn’t offered much advice for their first Olympics. “He just wants us to go in open-minded and have our experiences be our own, and just take it all in and enjoy every second.”

Also joining Monday’s USOPC media call was alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin, who holds a record 108 World Cup wins including last weekend’s slalom race in the Czech Republic. Shiffrin said now is “just a real cool time for alpine ski racing. Our team is bringing big energy to Milan-Cortina.”

Each of the three Olympics Shiffrin has competed in, beginning with the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi where she won gold, has been different experiences. So Shiffrin said she’s going to Italy with “a really open mind.”

“I think the one thing you can expect from the Olympics is that things are just not really going to go according to your plan. So you’ve got to roll with the punches,” she said. “It’s so important to be able to enjoy whatever moments that you can and stay really solid with the team around you.”

Jackson and Shiffrin are among the 98 returning Olympians on the 2026 team. A total of seven have been to the Games four times; 10, three times; and 22, twice. Thirty-three members have medaled in past Games, with 18 winning a combined 22 golds.

TEAM USA athletes with Utah ties

Alpine skiing

Bryce Bennett | Westminster University

Mary Bocock | Salt Lake native, Rowmark Ski Academy

Keely Cashman | University of Utah

Ryan Cochran-Siegle | Westminster University

Katie Hensien | Rowmark Ski Academy

Breezy Johnson | Rowmark Ski Academy

Sam Morse | Utah resident

Lindsey Vonn | Utah Royals investor, Utah resident

Jacqueline Wiles | Westminster University, Utah Valley University

Isabella Wright | Salt Lake native, Snowbird Sports Education Foundation, Utah resident

Bobsled

Caleb Furnell | Utah Valley University Track & Field (2019-2024), Utah resident

Kaysha Love | Herriman native

Cross-country skiing

Rosie Brennan | Park City native, Park City Ski & Snowboard

Novie McCabe | University of Utah Ski Team (2020-2023)

Freeski halfpipe

Alex Ferreira | Westminster University

Nick Goepper | Westminster University, Utah resident

Hunter Hess | Salt Lake Community College, Utah resident

Birk Irving | University of Utah

Freeski slopestyle and big air

Mac Forehand | Utah resident

Alex Hall | Winter Sports School; Park City Ski & Snowboard, University of Utah, Utah resident

Marin Hamill | Park City native and resident, Winter Sports School, Park City Ski & Snowboard, University of Utah

Rell Harwood | Park City native, Winter Sports School, Park City Ski & Snowboard, University of Utah, Utah resident

Grace Henderson | University of Utah, Utah resident

Troy Podmilsak | Park City native and resident, Park City Ski & Snowboard

Konnor Ralph | Salt Lake Community College, Utah resident

Freestyle aerials

Connor Curran | Park City Ski & Snowboard, Utah Valley University, Utah resident

Quinn Dehlinger | Salt Lake Community College, Utah resident

Kyra Dossa | Park City Ski & Snowboard, University of Utah, Utah resident

Derek Krueger | Park City Ski & Snowboard, University of Utah, Utah resident

Kaila Kuhn | Park City Ski & Snowboard, University of Utah, Utah resident

Chris Lillis | University of Utah, Utah resident

Tasia Tanner | Salt Lake native, Rowmark Ski Academy, Winter Sports School, Park City Ski & Snowboard, University of Utah, Utah resident

Winter Vinecki | Park City Ski & Snowboard, University of Utah, Utah resident

Freestyle moguls

Olivia Giaccio | Utah resident

Tess Johnson | Utah resident

Jaelin Kauf | University of Utah, Utah resident

Charlie Mickel | Wasatch Freestyle, University of Utah, Utah resident

Nick Page | Park City native and resident, Winter Sports School, Wasatch Freestyle

Landon Wendler | Wasatch Freestyle, Utah resident

Hockey

Clayton Keller | Utah Mammoth, Utah resident

Luge

Ashley Farquharson | Park City native and resident, Wasatch Luge Club

Matt Greiner | Wasatch Luge Club, Utah resident

Nordic combined

Ben Loomis | Winter Sports School, Park City Ski & Snowboard, Utah National Guard, Utah resident

Short track speed skating

Clayton DeClemente | Utah resident

Andrew Heo | University of Utah, Utah resident

Brandon Kim | Utah resident

Eunice Lee | Utah resident

Julie Letai | University of Utah, Utah resident

Kamryn Lute | University of Utah, Utah resident

Kristen Santos-Griswold | University of Utah, Utah resident

Corinne Stoddard | Utah resident

Ski jumping

Annika Belshaw | University of Utah

Kevin Bickner | Utah resident

Josie Johnson | Park City native and resident, Winter Sports School, Park City Ski & Snowboard

Paige Jones | Park City native, Park City Ski & Snowboard

Snowboard cross

Stacy Gaskill | Utah resident

Hanna Percy | Utah resident

Brianna Schnorrbusch | University of Utah

Faye Thelen | Salt Lake native, Westminster University, Utah resident

Snowboard slopestyle

Sean FitzSimons | University of Utah

Speed skating

Giorgia Birkeland | Salt Lake Community College, Utah resident

Brittany Bowe | Utah resident

Ethan Cepuran | University of Utah, Utah resident

Casey Dawson | Park City native, Park City Speed Skating Club, University of Utah, Utah resident

Erin Jackson | Salt Lake Community College, Utah resident

Emery Lehman | Utah resident

Mia Manganello | Utah resident

Conor McDermott-Mostowy | Utah resident

Cooper McLeod | Salt Lake Community College, Utah resident

Greta Myers | University of Utah, Utah resident

Zach Stoppelmoor | Utah resident

Sarah Warren | Utah resident

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International athletes with Utah ties

Austria

Avital Carroll, Freestyle moguls | Wasatch Freestyle, Utah resident

Czech Republic

Karel Vejmelka, Hockey | Utah Mammoth, Utah resident

Finland

Olli Määttä, Hockey | Utah Mammoth, Utah resident

Germany

JJ Peterka, Hockey | Utah Mammoth, Utah resident

Great Britain

Zoe Atkin, Freeski halfpipe | Winter Sports School, Park City Ski & Snowboard, Wasatch Freestyle

Joe Davies, Cross-country skiing | University of Utah Ski Team (2023-2025)

Phillippines

Tallulah Proulx, Alpine skiing | Winter Sports School, Park City Ski & Snowboard, Utah resident

Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Winston Tang, Alpine skiing | Park City Ski & Snowboard, Utah resident

Saudi Arabia

Fayik Abdi, Alpine skiing | University of Utah

Note: The athletes with Utah ties competing in the 2026 Paralympic Winter Games will be announced in mid-February.