Women's Skiing
Kris Shampeny
- Title:
- Head Alpine Coach
- Phone:
- 406.994.2451
A former Bobcat student-athlete and past assistant World Cup technical coach with the United States Ski and Snowboard Women’s Alpine team, Kris Shampeny, was named head alpine coach at Montana State University by MSU Director of Athletics Leon Costello on July 22, 2021. He now enters his fifth season with the Bobcats.
After an historic 2026 season for the Bobcats, Shampeny was named the ISCA Alpine Coach of the Year. Recognized through a combination of peer voting and team improvement at the NCAA Championships, Shampeny led the Bobcats to 235.5 alpine points in 2026, an increase of 109.5 points from the previous season.
Shampeny spearheaded the collegiate training of two-time 2026 NCAA Champion Justine Lamontagne, who became just the seventh woman in history to win both the slalom and grand slalom titles in the same year. Lamontagne’s success headlined the best postseason effort in Bobcat history with a fourth-place overall finish in Utah.
Shampeny and the Bobcats opened this year's championship race with five of six alpine competitors placing in the top 20 of the giant slalom. The slalom races proved to be even more successful, with four MSU skiers placing in the top 10.
The women of Bozeman scored 91.5 points to finish atop the slalom standings and mark the first time the Bobcats have won an event at the NCAA championships. Combined with the men, the alpine team produced 126 points, trailing Colorado by just one point for the highest slalom score. All three Bobcat women coached by Shampeny at the NCAA Championships earned All-America honors, with Lamontagne and Tea Kiesel on the first team and Lily Sewell earning second-team recognition. Torius Hepsoe earned second-team honors as well, placing ninth in the men's slalom.
The 2025 season brought first-team All-America honors for Lamontagne, as well as second-team recognition for Gianluca Bohm, as the Bobcats finished eighth at the NCAA Championships in New Hampshire.
In 2024, he coached the MSU skiers to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colo. The Bobcats collected three All-RMISA honors and four All-America selections in the alpine discipline.
He helped the Bobcats to a sixth-place finish at the 2023 Skiing Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. The former Bobcat skier saw five skiers earn All-America honors, including Justine Lamontagne, Kristiane Bekkestad, Riley Seger – First Team; and Lamontagne, Gianluca Boehm, Henry Heaydon – Second Team.
In his first season in Bozeman, Shampeny guided the Bobcats to a ninth-place showing at the NCAA Skiing Championships - the MSU alpine contingent placed seventh overall. Three Bobcats garnered All-America honors under his watch, including First Team All-Americans Nellie Talbot and Seger in giant slalom, and Bekkestad, a first team selection in slalom.
Shampeny, a native of Manhattan, Mont., who was raised in the local ski community as part of the Bridger Ski Foundation program, raced for Montana State from 2010-12 under the leadership of Dan Brelsford. He also served as a student assistant at MSU- a move that proved to be the start of a successful coaching career at both the national and international levels.
Most recently, Shampeny was the lead postgraduate FIS (International Ski Federation) coach with the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club in Colorado, where he helped navigate training and racing competition during the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with recruiting athletes, he also managed equipment acquisition, preparation, fitting, and maintenance as well as writing and administering the club’s strength and conditioning program.
From 2013-2020, Shampeny worked in a variety of positions with the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team. In his last two seasons with the national program, he served as an assistant World Cup technical coach, where he influenced the technical and tactical development of the team. Shampeny also managed the on-road strength and conditioning program, working with the USST sports science department. He was also responsible for equipment, transportation, surface preparation, and training logistics across the globe.
Shampeny served as head development coach from 2016-18, where he oversaw the technical and tactical direction of the team, along with on-hill analysis. He was also responsible for the program’s budget, which included eight athletes and three staff members who crossed between World Cup, Europa Cup, and NorAm.
Shampeny started his stint with the US Ski and Snowboard women’s squad as an assistant development coach. Over three seasons, he helped build and supervise the strength and conditioning program, assisted in process and long-term goal setting for athletes, helped with technical and tactical training, and acted as ski technician for 10 athletes.
A 2012 honors graduate of Montana State in plant science and plant pathology, and horticulture science, he is the son of former Bobcat men’s ski coach John Shampeny and the nephew of former MSU women’s ski coach Gary Shampeny.
After an historic 2026 season for the Bobcats, Shampeny was named the ISCA Alpine Coach of the Year. Recognized through a combination of peer voting and team improvement at the NCAA Championships, Shampeny led the Bobcats to 235.5 alpine points in 2026, an increase of 109.5 points from the previous season.
Shampeny spearheaded the collegiate training of two-time 2026 NCAA Champion Justine Lamontagne, who became just the seventh woman in history to win both the slalom and grand slalom titles in the same year. Lamontagne’s success headlined the best postseason effort in Bobcat history with a fourth-place overall finish in Utah.
Shampeny and the Bobcats opened this year's championship race with five of six alpine competitors placing in the top 20 of the giant slalom. The slalom races proved to be even more successful, with four MSU skiers placing in the top 10.
The women of Bozeman scored 91.5 points to finish atop the slalom standings and mark the first time the Bobcats have won an event at the NCAA championships. Combined with the men, the alpine team produced 126 points, trailing Colorado by just one point for the highest slalom score. All three Bobcat women coached by Shampeny at the NCAA Championships earned All-America honors, with Lamontagne and Tea Kiesel on the first team and Lily Sewell earning second-team recognition. Torius Hepsoe earned second-team honors as well, placing ninth in the men's slalom.
The 2025 season brought first-team All-America honors for Lamontagne, as well as second-team recognition for Gianluca Bohm, as the Bobcats finished eighth at the NCAA Championships in New Hampshire.
In 2024, he coached the MSU skiers to a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships in Steamboat Springs, Colo. The Bobcats collected three All-RMISA honors and four All-America selections in the alpine discipline.
He helped the Bobcats to a sixth-place finish at the 2023 Skiing Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. The former Bobcat skier saw five skiers earn All-America honors, including Justine Lamontagne, Kristiane Bekkestad, Riley Seger – First Team; and Lamontagne, Gianluca Boehm, Henry Heaydon – Second Team.
In his first season in Bozeman, Shampeny guided the Bobcats to a ninth-place showing at the NCAA Skiing Championships - the MSU alpine contingent placed seventh overall. Three Bobcats garnered All-America honors under his watch, including First Team All-Americans Nellie Talbot and Seger in giant slalom, and Bekkestad, a first team selection in slalom.
Shampeny, a native of Manhattan, Mont., who was raised in the local ski community as part of the Bridger Ski Foundation program, raced for Montana State from 2010-12 under the leadership of Dan Brelsford. He also served as a student assistant at MSU- a move that proved to be the start of a successful coaching career at both the national and international levels.
Most recently, Shampeny was the lead postgraduate FIS (International Ski Federation) coach with the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club in Colorado, where he helped navigate training and racing competition during the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with recruiting athletes, he also managed equipment acquisition, preparation, fitting, and maintenance as well as writing and administering the club’s strength and conditioning program.
From 2013-2020, Shampeny worked in a variety of positions with the U.S. Ski and Snowboard team. In his last two seasons with the national program, he served as an assistant World Cup technical coach, where he influenced the technical and tactical development of the team. Shampeny also managed the on-road strength and conditioning program, working with the USST sports science department. He was also responsible for equipment, transportation, surface preparation, and training logistics across the globe.
Shampeny served as head development coach from 2016-18, where he oversaw the technical and tactical direction of the team, along with on-hill analysis. He was also responsible for the program’s budget, which included eight athletes and three staff members who crossed between World Cup, Europa Cup, and NorAm.
Shampeny started his stint with the US Ski and Snowboard women’s squad as an assistant development coach. Over three seasons, he helped build and supervise the strength and conditioning program, assisted in process and long-term goal setting for athletes, helped with technical and tactical training, and acted as ski technician for 10 athletes.
A 2012 honors graduate of Montana State in plant science and plant pathology, and horticulture science, he is the son of former Bobcat men’s ski coach John Shampeny and the nephew of former MSU women’s ski coach Gary Shampeny.
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