SALT LAKE CITY-Veteran ski coach Frederik Landstedt has been hired as the director of skiing at the University of Utah Friday.
He brings 26 years of experience to the program.
Landstedt had spent the previous 21 seasons at New Mexico, including 11 years as the head coach after working 10 seasons as the head Nordic coach for the Lobos.
During Landstedt’s tenure, the Lobos have finished in the top four at the NCAA Championships nine times.
He also led the Lobos to the 2004 national championship, their first in program history.
Under Landstedt, 34 Nordic skiers have earned 80 All-American honors at UNM while Lobos skiers finished on the podium 19 times in NCAA championship races.
Landstedt has been the secretary-rules editor on the NCAA men’s and women’s skiing committee since 2006 and served as the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association from 2000-2006.
Landstedt was also the head Nordic ski coach at Colorado (1995-1997) while the Buffaloes won the national title in 1995.
While at CU, his student-athletes earned 20 All-American honors, including six first-team honors.
Landstedt has also coached with the U.S. Ski Team at Junior and U-23 World Championships events.
Landstedt is a 1991 graduate of New Mexico, earning a bachelor’s degree in economics and an associate’s in accounting/bookkeeping in 1990.
He competed for the Lobos from 1987-1989 and began his coaching career as a Nordic assistant coach for the Lobos, while earning his degree, from 1990-1991.
A native of Solleftea, Sweden, Landstedt took three medals in the Swedish Junior Championships, finishing in the top 20 in several national competitions as a senior racer.
Landstedt and his wife, Brenda, have three sons, Gabriel, Adrian and Andreas and a daughter, Zara.
