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Weinberger, Jana
Jana Weinberger
- Title:
- Director of Skiing/Head Nordic Coach
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The 2024 ski season is the 21st season Jana Weinberger has been affiliated with the Colorado Buffaloes and it marks her first season as the Director of Skiing. She was named to that post on May 3, 2023, after serving as the Interim Head Coach for the 2023 season. This will be her sixth season as the Nordic Head Coach.
Weinberger was promoted to the Nordic head coaching role prior to the 2019 season after having served as the assistant Nordic coach for the previous 11 seasons. She was also a two-time NCAA individual champion skier herself at CU from 2003-06.
In her first five seasons as the Nordic coach, Weinberger has coached 10 Buffs to a total of 29 All-America honors with three individual NCAA Championships, including Erik Dengerud's win in 2019 and Magnus Boee's sweep in 2021). In the past five seasons, the Buffs have 245 top 10 performances and 24 race victories, including Boee's school record 10 in 2021.
She was named the interim head coach after the start of the 2023 season and helped guide the Buffaloes through turmoil successfully, culminating in a second place finish at the NCAA Championships, improving from a fourth-place finish in 2022.
In her 11 seasons as an assistant under Bruce Cranmer, the duo put together the top Nordic program in the country. In her tenure, Colorado finished first or second in the Nordic points standings at the NCAA Championships eight times and in five of those seasons CU won the mythical Nordic national championship (2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015).
In all, Weinberger has helped guide a total of 21 different skiers to 108 race victories and she coached 11 different Buffs who have won a combined 17 NCAA individual national titles. Additionally, she has seen 25 different Nordic skiers garner a combined 62 first-team All-America honors.
As a skier, Weinberger raced 28 collegiate races, claiming 27 top 10 and 23 top five finishes. As a senior in 2006, she captained the national championship team and herself swept six consecutive races, including winning the individual titles in both the freestyle and classical events at the NCAA Championships. She is a member of the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame, having been inducted in the fall of 2019.
She is one of five Nordic athletes in school history that have swept the NCAA Nordic titles in the same year, and she has coached three of the other four. Petra Hyncicova swept the NCAA titles in 2017 and Mads Stroem did so in 2016 and Boee accomplished the feat in 2021.
Hyncicova, Boee and Stroem excelled under Weinberger’s tutelage. Hyncicova, the 2017 national Nordic skier of the year, went on to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics for her home country, the Czech Republic. Stroem won three total NCAA titles under Weinberger and was an eight-time All-American (seven first-team honors), tying the program record for most All-America honors and first-team accolades in a career. Boee was the National Skier of the Year in 2021 after setting a school record with 10 wins, including a sweep of the RMISA and NCAA individual championships.
Of the 17 individual NCAA titles that have been won by Buffs during her coaching tenure, five skiers have won multiple national titles (Stroem 3, Maria Grevsgaard 2, Hyncicova 2, Boee 2 and Rune Oedegaard 2).
As a result of Weinberger’s performance in 2006, she was awarded the Dick Schoenberger Memorial Award, presented to CU’s most outstanding skier each season. When she won a pair of All-America citations in 2004, she became just the sixth women’s cross country skier to accomplish that feat and first since former teammate and former assistant coach Mari Storeng in 2001. Weinberger was also the recipient of the Outstanding Nordic Woman award in both 2003 and ’04.
Prior to her collegiate career, she skied for the Tartu Ski Club in Estonia. She also competed in basketball and track & field at Estonia Sport Gymnasium.
Born July 27, 1979 in Russia, she was raised in Estonia. The former Jana Rehemaa is the daughter of Udo and Veir Rehemaa. She graduated from the University of Colorado in 2006 with a degree in international affairs. She is married to former CU All-American and her predecessor as the assistant Nordic Coach, Dan Weinberger, and the couple has three children, Klara, Alexander and William.
One of two children of Udo and Veira Rehemaa, her younger borther, Aivar, was a world junior Nordic champion. Her aunt, Rutt Rehemaa, was one of the top female Nordic racers ever in Estonia and later became a famous sports personality while her uncle was her long-time coach before she came to race for Colorado. She had skied for the Tartu Ski Club in Estonia with her first cousin, Katrin Smigun, who won the 2003 NCAA freestyle championship while skiing for the University of Utah.
Weinberger was promoted to the Nordic head coaching role prior to the 2019 season after having served as the assistant Nordic coach for the previous 11 seasons. She was also a two-time NCAA individual champion skier herself at CU from 2003-06.
In her first five seasons as the Nordic coach, Weinberger has coached 10 Buffs to a total of 29 All-America honors with three individual NCAA Championships, including Erik Dengerud's win in 2019 and Magnus Boee's sweep in 2021). In the past five seasons, the Buffs have 245 top 10 performances and 24 race victories, including Boee's school record 10 in 2021.
She was named the interim head coach after the start of the 2023 season and helped guide the Buffaloes through turmoil successfully, culminating in a second place finish at the NCAA Championships, improving from a fourth-place finish in 2022.
In her 11 seasons as an assistant under Bruce Cranmer, the duo put together the top Nordic program in the country. In her tenure, Colorado finished first or second in the Nordic points standings at the NCAA Championships eight times and in five of those seasons CU won the mythical Nordic national championship (2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015).
In all, Weinberger has helped guide a total of 21 different skiers to 108 race victories and she coached 11 different Buffs who have won a combined 17 NCAA individual national titles. Additionally, she has seen 25 different Nordic skiers garner a combined 62 first-team All-America honors.
As a skier, Weinberger raced 28 collegiate races, claiming 27 top 10 and 23 top five finishes. As a senior in 2006, she captained the national championship team and herself swept six consecutive races, including winning the individual titles in both the freestyle and classical events at the NCAA Championships. She is a member of the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame, having been inducted in the fall of 2019.
She is one of five Nordic athletes in school history that have swept the NCAA Nordic titles in the same year, and she has coached three of the other four. Petra Hyncicova swept the NCAA titles in 2017 and Mads Stroem did so in 2016 and Boee accomplished the feat in 2021.
Hyncicova, Boee and Stroem excelled under Weinberger’s tutelage. Hyncicova, the 2017 national Nordic skier of the year, went on to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics for her home country, the Czech Republic. Stroem won three total NCAA titles under Weinberger and was an eight-time All-American (seven first-team honors), tying the program record for most All-America honors and first-team accolades in a career. Boee was the National Skier of the Year in 2021 after setting a school record with 10 wins, including a sweep of the RMISA and NCAA individual championships.
Of the 17 individual NCAA titles that have been won by Buffs during her coaching tenure, five skiers have won multiple national titles (Stroem 3, Maria Grevsgaard 2, Hyncicova 2, Boee 2 and Rune Oedegaard 2).
As a result of Weinberger’s performance in 2006, she was awarded the Dick Schoenberger Memorial Award, presented to CU’s most outstanding skier each season. When she won a pair of All-America citations in 2004, she became just the sixth women’s cross country skier to accomplish that feat and first since former teammate and former assistant coach Mari Storeng in 2001. Weinberger was also the recipient of the Outstanding Nordic Woman award in both 2003 and ’04.
Prior to her collegiate career, she skied for the Tartu Ski Club in Estonia. She also competed in basketball and track & field at Estonia Sport Gymnasium.
Born July 27, 1979 in Russia, she was raised in Estonia. The former Jana Rehemaa is the daughter of Udo and Veir Rehemaa. She graduated from the University of Colorado in 2006 with a degree in international affairs. She is married to former CU All-American and her predecessor as the assistant Nordic Coach, Dan Weinberger, and the couple has three children, Klara, Alexander and William.
One of two children of Udo and Veira Rehemaa, her younger borther, Aivar, was a world junior Nordic champion. Her aunt, Rutt Rehemaa, was one of the top female Nordic racers ever in Estonia and later became a famous sports personality while her uncle was her long-time coach before she came to race for Colorado. She had skied for the Tartu Ski Club in Estonia with her first cousin, Katrin Smigun, who won the 2003 NCAA freestyle championship while skiing for the University of Utah.
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