23 Utahns named to USA ’24-’25 skimo, biathlon rosters

Team USA letters on display at the Utah Olympic Park, a USOPC Training Site. Photo: Michele Roepke // TownLift

PARK CITY, Utah — The teams have been named, including 23 athletes whose hometowns are in Northern Utah, for the upcoming year for the sports of Skimo (Ski Mountaineering), and Biathlon.

These are two Winter Olympic disciplines which are not operated under the administrative umbrella of U.S. Ski and Snowboard.

SKIMO:

Senior Female

• Maria Lamb – Park City

Senior Male

•  Tom Goth – Salt Lake City
• Jules Goguely – Ogden

U23 Male

•  Wesley Perkins – Park City

U20 Male

•  Griffin Briley – Park City
• Bryce Ostermiller – Salt Lake City
• Nicholas Rocco – Salt Lake City
• Emmet Itoi – Park City
• Anders Carlson – Brighton

U20 Female

•  Carson Leys – Salt Lake City

U18 Female

•  McCall Birkinshaw – Salt Lake City
• Sienna Petersen – Salt Lake City
• Corrine Higgins – Salt Lake City
• Stella Gillespie – Salt Lake City
• Samara Shah – Salt Lake City

U18 Male

•  Landon Jakob – Salt Lake City
• Joshua Itoi – Pak City
• Benjamin Bigwood – Salt Lake City
• Sam Kirshner – Park City
• Massimiliano Zaniello – Park City

Other states prominently represented include Colorado and Montana.

BIATHLON:

(A3) National Team

•  Vincent Bonacci – Salt Lake City

Development Team 

•  Lina Farra – Heber City

Junior National Team

• Wes Campbell – Park City

Other states prominently represented include Alaska, Minnesota, and Vermont. 

“It’s great to see that many of our current Junior National Team members have come through the U.S. Biathlon development pipeline by participating in U.S. Biathlon’s Regional Select Camps and Elite Development camps,” Tim Burke, U.S Biathlon director of athlete development, said in a statement. “I look forward to seeing these programs continue to grow.”

USA Skimo is headquartered in Colorado, and US Biathlon moved from Maine to Midway, Utah, within the past year.

If the above-mentioned skimo athletes were to make the team trials cut in the ’25-’26 season, they will be among the first people to compete in their sport in an Olympic Games as it debuts in Milan-Cortina.