Colorado directory
Discover Colorado NCAA ski programs, USCSA teams, university freeride clubs, Nordic teams, and recreational campus ski communities.
01 / PROGRAM GUIDE
Colorado students can compete in NCAA, RMISA, USCSA, freeride, and club-sport circuits—or simply find classmates for mountain days. Varsity programs and student-run clubs are labeled separately wherever the distinction matters.
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Colorado College’s student-run alpine club gives experienced racers a way to continue slalom and giant-slalom competition within the school’s club-sports system, separate from its recreational ski and snowboard community.
For Colorado College students
Colorado Springs
Entirely student-led and open to first-time Nordic skiers as well as national-level racers, CC Nordic lets members choose their own balance of instruction, team practices, and optional USCSA competition.
For Colorado College students, including beginners
Grand Junction / Powderhorn
Based in Grand Junction with Powderhorn as its closest mountain, CMU Alpine fields men’s and women’s USCSA racers in slalom and giant slalom, with the program qualifying for the 2026 national championships.
For Colorado Mesa University students seeking collegiate alpine racing
Grand Junction / Grand Mesa
Operating within CMU Athletics while racing through USCSA, the Mavericks’ cross-country squad pairs professional coaching and varsity-style performance resources with student responsibility for waxing, travel, recruiting, race support, equipment, and community events.
For CMU students with intermediate or higher cross-country skiing skills
Steamboat Springs
Based at CMC’s Steamboat Springs campus, the Eagles offer FIS-level alpine racers a two- or four-year college path while competing as an RMISA associate alongside western NCAA programs.
For High-level CMC student-athletes
Golden
Mines’ athlete-funded alpine club races from January through March in USCSA slalom and giant slalom, bringing together undergraduate and graduate students and returning its men’s team to nationals in 2025 and 2026.
For Mines undergraduate and graduate students
Fort Collins
Colorado State’s alpine racers represent the Rams through a student-run club-sport program, raising much of the money needed for race entries, equipment, lodging, and travel to collegiate competitions.
For Colorado State University students
Fort Collins
CSU Freeride is the Rams’ student-led big-mountain ski and snowboard team, with members spending winter weekends traveling across the West and building a community around competitive freeriding.
For CSU students interested in big-mountain competition
Fort Collins
Founded in 2020, CSU Nordic is a self-supported student club where first-time skiers and seasoned racers share a team, with donations helping keep USCSA travel and competition affordable.
For CSU students from beginners through racers
Fort Collins
Snowriders is Colorado State’s all-level social ski and snowboard club, pairing resort meetups and carpools with overnight trips, in-town events, backcountry outings, and an on-campus rail jam.
For CSU students of all levels
Boulder
CU Freeskiing combines coached big-mountain and park-and-pipe development for skiers and snowboarders, with local and travel tracks ranging from first-time competitors to athletes pursuing Freeride World Qualifier events.
For Current CU Boulder students
Boulder
CU Boulder’s 120-member snowboard club skips tryouts while offering daily mountain rides, weekly team days, coaching, destination trips, indoor training, media support, and entry help for local, USASA, and IFSA events.
For Intermediate-to-advanced CU Boulder students
Denver
The University of Denver’s NCAA program fields men’s and women’s alpine and Nordic squads in RMISA, with winter training and hosted races spread across Loveland, Eldora, Maloit Park, and other western venues.
For Recruited University of Denver student-athletes
Denver / Kennedy Mountain Campus
DU’s Club Mountain Sports umbrella connects three different snow communities: collegiate slalom, giant-slalom, and freestyle racers; resort-focused freeride skiers and snowboarders; and an Alpine Club that organizes backcountry ski outings.
For DU undergraduate and graduate students
Colorado Springs
Known on campus as FUCC, this unusually large student-run organization builds Colorado College’s recreational ski and snowboard culture through mountain days, campus gatherings, pass access, and snow-centered traditions.
For Colorado College community
Golden
Mines Nordic is a registered student organization where Orediggers can ski recreationally, build community, or opt into USCSA collegiate racing without making competition a condition of membership.
For Colorado School of Mines students
Boulder
CU Boulder’s recruited NCAA ski program combines men’s and women’s alpine and Nordic results into one championship score, racing through RMISA with Eldora serving as its Colorado home facility.
For Recruited CU student-athletes
U.S. Air Force Academy
A ten-cadet Air Force Academy team with roots in the 1960s, USAFA Alpine selects new racers through winter tryouts and competes in USCSA slalom and giant slalom.
For Air Force Academy cadets selected through tryouts
U.S. Air Force Academy
Air Force’s Nordic club teaches cadets from the ground up, supplies the necessary equipment, and races distances from one-kilometer sprint relays to half marathons at conference and USCSA national events.
For Cadets of all experience levels
Gunnison / Crested Butte
Western’s coached Mountain Sports program lets students train on set schedules and compete in alpine, Nordic, freeride skiing and snowboarding, and skimo from a Gunnison–Crested Butte base.
For Western Colorado University students