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US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame Class of 2025

Chris Cushing

The U.S. National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame has elected eight new honorees. The class of 2025 will be inducted at the Snowsports History Celebration in Snowbird, Utah, in April 2026, as part of ISHA’s annual
Skiing History Week. The Class of 2025 includes:

Chris Cushing

Chris Cushing (photo top of page) has shaped mountain-resort design over four decades, following in the footsteps of his father, Hall of Famer Joe Cushing. With more than 200 ski area projects across five continents, including work at Deer Valley and Steamboat resorts, he is regarded as one of the world’s foremost mountain planners. In 2025, the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) honored him with its Industry Impact Award.

Raelene Davis

A highly impactful marketer, Davis has been responsible for bringing countless riders into the sport. As marketing chief of Ski Utah for 40 years, she introduced elementary school learn to ski/ride programs and helped introduce ethnic diversity through Discover Winter. Nationally, she was the co-architect of Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month and the driving force behind NSAA’s annual Conversion Cup.

Nancy Gustafson

Among the most acclaimed Paralympic skiers of her generation, Gustafson dominated her time on the U.S. Disabled Ski Team. From 1988 to 1994, she earned seven gold and three silver medals in Alpine skiing at the Paralympic Winter Games. In 1994 at Lillehammer, Norway, she swept all four gold medals. In her career on the ski team, she also won nine world championships and took 25 national championship medals.

 

Hugh Harley
A key executive at Rossignol and Nordica for 36 years, Harley helped Rossignol gain a 30 percent U.S. market share and led efforts to build three North American factories. He was a strong advocate of racing support with the U.S. Ski Team, and his Rossignol athletes earned 376 World Cup podiums, as well as 16 world championship or Olympic medals.

Douglas Pringle

In a career spanning a half-century, Pringle was one of the most impactful leaders in adaptive skiing. He launched 42 adaptive learn-to-ski programs throughout the United States, helped lead Disabled Sports USA, played a role in growing the Ski Spectacular festivals for adaptive sports, served a formative role in the evolution of the Paralympics and wrote the first curriculum on teaching the blind.

 

Kikkan Randall

A five-time Olympian, Randall helped catapult the U.S. women’s Nordic ski team onto the world stage, earning the team’s first World Cup victory and first Olympic and world championships golds. A specialist in team and individual sprints, Randall claimed 29 World Cup podiums, including 11 wins. She won the 2012 World Cup sprint title, becoming the first overall season champion for the U.S. women’s cross-country team.

Todd Richards

Richards transformed snowboarding, rising from halfpipe pioneer to champion with multiple U.S. Open wins, X Games golds and world slopestyle titles. A leader on Team USA’s first 1998 Olympic halfpipe team, he then became one of snowboarding’s most influential voices, providing Emmy-winning commentary for every Winter Olympics since 2006.

 

Lindsey Van

A pioneering American ski jumper, Van won her first world championship in 2009 and was among those leading the charge for the women’s Olympic debut in 2014. She was motivated as a young girl growing up near the ski jumps in Park City, Utah. In the early days of growth for women’s ski jumping, Van stood on 40 international podiums and won 16 U.S. titles.