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Landstedt, Fredrik
Fredrik Landstedt
- Title:
- Director of Skiing
- Email:
- f.landstedt@utah.edu
- Phone:
- 801-201-8026
Since arriving in Salt Lake City in July 2018, Fredrik Landstedt has reestablished the Utah Ski Team as a national power at the collegiate level. Now entering up his eighth year leading the program in 2026, Landstedt has led the Utes to five of the last six NCAA Championships (2019, ’21, ’22, ’23, ‘25) plus a national runner-up finish in 2024.
No other program in the mixed-gender era of NCAA skiing has enjoyed such a run, which included four straight team titles from 2019-23. A nation-leading 93 NCAA All-America awards and 14 individual NCAA championships have been collected by Utah skiers with Landstedt at the helm.
Including at Utah, Landstedt has been part of seven NCAA title-winning teams (New Mexico 2004; Colorado 1995) throughout 32 years of college ski coaching. In his first five seasons at Utah, the Utes won every RMISA regular season championship and all but two meets overall.
The Utes returned to the pinnacle of the collegiate skiing world in 2025 with the program’s 17th national title. After sitting in third place on day one of the four-day NCAA Championships meet, Utah stayed positive and responded with three individual champions on the way to the crown. Freshmen Erica Lavén (women’s 7.5K classic) and Johs Braathen Herland (men’s giant slalom) along with senior Joe Davies (men’s 20K freestyle) each claimed victories, and were among a meet-leading 17 All-American awards for the Utes.
Despite missing certain members of the team at points due to international competitions, the Utes’ depth shined in clinching the 2025 RMISA regular season and regional championships. Lavén swept the conference’s women’s Nordic MVP honors, Herland shared the men’s giant slalom MVP and 17 members of the team were named All-RMISA.
Three alpine members of the team and six Nordic skiers made at least one start in a World Cup, U-23 or Junior World Championships competition.
The 2024 season saw the Utes place as the national runner-up in the tightest finish of an NCAA Championships ever. Sydney Palmer-Leger capped off a strong Nordic career with the 7.5K freestyle individual national title, giving her three career NCAA crowns, seven All-American accolades and 11 overall race victories. Mikkel Solbakken, the National Men’s Alpine Skier of the Year, wrapped up his graduate year as the NCAA champion in men’s giant slalom as the Utes totaled 13 All-Americans.
Beyond the collegiate circuit, six members of the team made at least one World Cup start. A combined six alpine and Nordic Utes also spent part of the Winter in Europe racing at the U-23 and World Junior Championships.
In a 2023 NCAA Championships meet that also came down to the wire, Utah came away with its 16th team championship all-time and 15th NCAA crown. The Utes won all four women’s races out in Lake Placid, becoming the first program since 2018 to rack up four individual national champions in the same year. Novie McCabe was victorious in both the 5K freestyle and 20K classic and Madison Hoffman capped one of the greatest comeback stories in collegiate skiing, sweeping the women’s slalom and giant slalom after missing much of the previous year due to injury. Thirteen All-America citations for the Utes tied the most of any school.
Serving as host for the 2022 championships, Utah led the meet from wire-to-wire, collecting 14 All-America accolades and as many podium results across the alpine and Nordic races. McCabe was the 5K classic individual champion, with Sophia Laukli following two days later in a 15K freestyle first-place finish.
McCabe went on to be named National Women’s Nordic Skier of the Year, the second straight year that a Ute took that prestigious laurel.
During the 2022 Winter Olympics, 13 current and former members of the Utah Ski Team earned the privilege to represent their countries either as an athlete or coach. Ten of the 13 have been coached at some point by Landstedt and his staff at Utah. Representing the United States, Laukli and McCabe turned in top-20 performances in the women’s 30K freestyle during the two-week stretch of competition.
Utah's 2021 NCAA Championship season – the Utes' 14th national title – was one for the ages, as Utah went undefeated for the second time in three years. Palmer-Leger, then a freshman, swept both Nordic races at the NCAA Championships to become an individual double national champion, the 12th time the feat had been accomplished in Utah skiing history. The women’s 5K classic race saw Palmer-Leger, Julia Richter and McCabe sweep the top three spots while three men placed in the top-five of the 10K classic. All told, the Utes claimed 16 All-America awards by 11 individuals, and nine podium finishes, en route to a dominant victory that followed the team's RMISA Championship two weeks earlier.
In 2019, Landstedt led Utah to victory at the NCAA Championships in his first season at the helm. Richter won the NCAA title in the 5K freestyle and eight skiers combined for 12 All-America honors with five podium finishes at the meet. Utah won four of five RMISA meets held during the regular season, including the NCAA Regional/RMISA Championship.
In addition to Utah’s four NCAA crowns with Landstedt at the helm, the Utes were leading in the team standings at the time the 2020 NCAA Championships were stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For all the highlights on snow, his student-athletes have been just as successful in the classroom. Since 2018, eight Academic All-America nods have gone to the Utes. In 2023-24, both the men’s and women’s teams earned a perfect 100% Graduation Success Rate (GSR) from the NCAA.
Prior to Utah
Landstedt came to Utah from New Mexico after spending 21 seasons with the Lobos, including 11 years as head coach (2008-18). He previously worked 10 seasons as head Nordic coach.
The Lobos finished in the top four at the NCAA Championships nine times during Landstedt’s tenure, including winning the 2004 NCAA Championship, the first team title in New Mexico history. UNM finished second in 2006 as well as third in 2009, ‘10 and ‘14.
Landstedt coached seven student-athletes to individual NCAA Championships at UNM. Kristina Strandberg (2000, 15-km classic), Jimmy Vika (2013, 10-km freestyle), Eva Severus (2014, 15-km freestyle) and Emilie Cdervaem (2015, 15-km classic) each won Nordic titles for the Lobos. Malin Hemmingsson (2007, ’09, ‘10) was a three-time NCAA Champion in women’s slalom while Joonas Rasanen (2013, slalom) and Mateja Robnik (2015, giant slalom) also won alpine championships.
Under Landstedt, 34 Nordic skiers earned 80 All-America honors at UNM with skiers finishing on the podium 19 times in NCAA Championship races. Strandberg and Polina Ermoshina were both seven-time All-Americans for the Lobos. Ermoshina had two runner-up finishes in women’s classic. In alpine with Landstedt as overall head coach, 19 skiers combined for 45 All-America honors since 2008.
As the head Nordic ski coach at Colorado (1995-97), Landstedt helped the Buffaloes to the 1995 NCAA title and a third-place finish in 1997. His student-athletes earned 20 All-America honors in his three seasons, including six first team honors.
Landstedt has also coached with the U.S. Ski Team at Junior and U-23 World Championships events, and coached the West Valley High School ski team in Fairbanks, Alaska, to two state titles in three seasons (1991-1994). While in Alaska, he won the Tour of Anchorage 50-km ski race twice (1993-94).
Landstedt began his collegiate coaching career as a Nordic assistant coach at New Mexico while finishing his degree from 1990-91.
Beyond Coaching
Landstedt has been the Secretary-Rules Editor on the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Skiing Committee since 2006. He served as the president of the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association from 2000-06.
The Landstedt File
A 1991 graduate of New Mexico with a bachelor's degree in economics, Landstedt also earned an associate’s degree in accounting/bookkeeping in 1990. He competed at New Mexico from 1987-89. Landstedt finished fourth in men’s cross country in 1987 to earn first-team All-America honors and also helped New Mexico finish third in the men’s cross country relay. He finished 11th in cross country in 1988 and was 12th in the 20-km freestyle in 1989.
As a competitor, Landstedt was a top national skier and placed in the top 10 at the U.S. National Championships eight times from 1991-93. Originally from Sollefteå, Sweden, he took three medals in the Swedish Junior Championships and finished 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.
No other program in the mixed-gender era of NCAA skiing has enjoyed such a run, which included four straight team titles from 2019-23. A nation-leading 93 NCAA All-America awards and 14 individual NCAA championships have been collected by Utah skiers with Landstedt at the helm.
Including at Utah, Landstedt has been part of seven NCAA title-winning teams (New Mexico 2004; Colorado 1995) throughout 32 years of college ski coaching. In his first five seasons at Utah, the Utes won every RMISA regular season championship and all but two meets overall.
The Utes returned to the pinnacle of the collegiate skiing world in 2025 with the program’s 17th national title. After sitting in third place on day one of the four-day NCAA Championships meet, Utah stayed positive and responded with three individual champions on the way to the crown. Freshmen Erica Lavén (women’s 7.5K classic) and Johs Braathen Herland (men’s giant slalom) along with senior Joe Davies (men’s 20K freestyle) each claimed victories, and were among a meet-leading 17 All-American awards for the Utes.
Despite missing certain members of the team at points due to international competitions, the Utes’ depth shined in clinching the 2025 RMISA regular season and regional championships. Lavén swept the conference’s women’s Nordic MVP honors, Herland shared the men’s giant slalom MVP and 17 members of the team were named All-RMISA.
Three alpine members of the team and six Nordic skiers made at least one start in a World Cup, U-23 or Junior World Championships competition.
The 2024 season saw the Utes place as the national runner-up in the tightest finish of an NCAA Championships ever. Sydney Palmer-Leger capped off a strong Nordic career with the 7.5K freestyle individual national title, giving her three career NCAA crowns, seven All-American accolades and 11 overall race victories. Mikkel Solbakken, the National Men’s Alpine Skier of the Year, wrapped up his graduate year as the NCAA champion in men’s giant slalom as the Utes totaled 13 All-Americans.
Beyond the collegiate circuit, six members of the team made at least one World Cup start. A combined six alpine and Nordic Utes also spent part of the Winter in Europe racing at the U-23 and World Junior Championships.
In a 2023 NCAA Championships meet that also came down to the wire, Utah came away with its 16th team championship all-time and 15th NCAA crown. The Utes won all four women’s races out in Lake Placid, becoming the first program since 2018 to rack up four individual national champions in the same year. Novie McCabe was victorious in both the 5K freestyle and 20K classic and Madison Hoffman capped one of the greatest comeback stories in collegiate skiing, sweeping the women’s slalom and giant slalom after missing much of the previous year due to injury. Thirteen All-America citations for the Utes tied the most of any school.
Serving as host for the 2022 championships, Utah led the meet from wire-to-wire, collecting 14 All-America accolades and as many podium results across the alpine and Nordic races. McCabe was the 5K classic individual champion, with Sophia Laukli following two days later in a 15K freestyle first-place finish.
McCabe went on to be named National Women’s Nordic Skier of the Year, the second straight year that a Ute took that prestigious laurel.
During the 2022 Winter Olympics, 13 current and former members of the Utah Ski Team earned the privilege to represent their countries either as an athlete or coach. Ten of the 13 have been coached at some point by Landstedt and his staff at Utah. Representing the United States, Laukli and McCabe turned in top-20 performances in the women’s 30K freestyle during the two-week stretch of competition.
Utah's 2021 NCAA Championship season – the Utes' 14th national title – was one for the ages, as Utah went undefeated for the second time in three years. Palmer-Leger, then a freshman, swept both Nordic races at the NCAA Championships to become an individual double national champion, the 12th time the feat had been accomplished in Utah skiing history. The women’s 5K classic race saw Palmer-Leger, Julia Richter and McCabe sweep the top three spots while three men placed in the top-five of the 10K classic. All told, the Utes claimed 16 All-America awards by 11 individuals, and nine podium finishes, en route to a dominant victory that followed the team's RMISA Championship two weeks earlier.
In 2019, Landstedt led Utah to victory at the NCAA Championships in his first season at the helm. Richter won the NCAA title in the 5K freestyle and eight skiers combined for 12 All-America honors with five podium finishes at the meet. Utah won four of five RMISA meets held during the regular season, including the NCAA Regional/RMISA Championship.
In addition to Utah’s four NCAA crowns with Landstedt at the helm, the Utes were leading in the team standings at the time the 2020 NCAA Championships were stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
For all the highlights on snow, his student-athletes have been just as successful in the classroom. Since 2018, eight Academic All-America nods have gone to the Utes. In 2023-24, both the men’s and women’s teams earned a perfect 100% Graduation Success Rate (GSR) from the NCAA.
Prior to Utah
Landstedt came to Utah from New Mexico after spending 21 seasons with the Lobos, including 11 years as head coach (2008-18). He previously worked 10 seasons as head Nordic coach.
The Lobos finished in the top four at the NCAA Championships nine times during Landstedt’s tenure, including winning the 2004 NCAA Championship, the first team title in New Mexico history. UNM finished second in 2006 as well as third in 2009, ‘10 and ‘14.
Landstedt coached seven student-athletes to individual NCAA Championships at UNM. Kristina Strandberg (2000, 15-km classic), Jimmy Vika (2013, 10-km freestyle), Eva Severus (2014, 15-km freestyle) and Emilie Cdervaem (2015, 15-km classic) each won Nordic titles for the Lobos. Malin Hemmingsson (2007, ’09, ‘10) was a three-time NCAA Champion in women’s slalom while Joonas Rasanen (2013, slalom) and Mateja Robnik (2015, giant slalom) also won alpine championships.
Under Landstedt, 34 Nordic skiers earned 80 All-America honors at UNM with skiers finishing on the podium 19 times in NCAA Championship races. Strandberg and Polina Ermoshina were both seven-time All-Americans for the Lobos. Ermoshina had two runner-up finishes in women’s classic. In alpine with Landstedt as overall head coach, 19 skiers combined for 45 All-America honors since 2008.
As the head Nordic ski coach at Colorado (1995-97), Landstedt helped the Buffaloes to the 1995 NCAA title and a third-place finish in 1997. His student-athletes earned 20 All-America honors in his three seasons, including six first team honors.
Landstedt has also coached with the U.S. Ski Team at Junior and U-23 World Championships events, and coached the West Valley High School ski team in Fairbanks, Alaska, to two state titles in three seasons (1991-1994). While in Alaska, he won the Tour of Anchorage 50-km ski race twice (1993-94).
Landstedt began his collegiate coaching career as a Nordic assistant coach at New Mexico while finishing his degree from 1990-91.
Beyond Coaching
Landstedt has been the Secretary-Rules Editor on the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Skiing Committee since 2006. He served as the president of the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association from 2000-06.
The Landstedt File
A 1991 graduate of New Mexico with a bachelor's degree in economics, Landstedt also earned an associate’s degree in accounting/bookkeeping in 1990. He competed at New Mexico from 1987-89. Landstedt finished fourth in men’s cross country in 1987 to earn first-team All-America honors and also helped New Mexico finish third in the men’s cross country relay. He finished 11th in cross country in 1988 and was 12th in the 20-km freestyle in 1989.
As a competitor, Landstedt was a top national skier and placed in the top 10 at the U.S. National Championships eight times from 1991-93. Originally from Sollefteå, Sweden, he took three medals in the Swedish Junior Championships and finished 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.
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