Hall, Kauf, Dehlinger, Ferreira qualify to ski in 2026 Olympics

Hall, Kauf, Dehlinger, and Ferreira make early qualifications to the 2026 Olympics. Photo: TownLift // Michele Roepke

PARK CITY, Utah — Alex Hall, Jaelin Kauf, Alex Ferreira, and Quinn Dehlinger, all skiers, and all members of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard, have today fulfilled the early qualification criteria to represent the USA at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games.

Although no competitions are being held this month, finite spots are allocated to points winners, globes winners, and world championships winners simultaneous to equations being calculated on a global level. Simply put, without even any snow on the ground in the Northern Hemisphere, some names move up on lists, on paper and some move down.

Hall is a slopestyle and big air skier from the Park City Ski & Snowboard Club and resides in Salt Lake City. He has a gold medal from Beijing 2022 in slopestyle, he also competed in PyeongChang 2018. 

Kauf hails from Wyoming and Park City fans know her name well as she won the 2025 Deer Valley Freestyle FIS World Cup Moguls and Dual Moguls, a discipline set to make it’s Olympic debut in 2026. She also has a silver medal from the Beijing 2022 Olympics.

Dehlinger also won his gender’s top spot at the 2025 Deer Valley Freestyle FIS World Cup, in the Aerials competition and will be a first time Olympian. He grew up skiing in the U.S.’s Midwest.

Ferreira competes in halfpipe, a two time Olympic medalist from Aspen has a bronze from Beijing 2022, and a silver from PyeongChang 2018. 

These four skiers join snowboarders Chloe Kim and Red Gerard who qualified at the very end of the snow sports season.