Welcome to the official website for Central Division R1 (CR1) of the United States Ski & Snowboard.  The Central Division consists of the following states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Missouri.    CR1 consists of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota; the other states listed above belong to CR2, CR3, and CR4.

CR1 plans and hosts races throughout the winter season to give our athletes opportunities to compete in Slalom, Giant Slalom, and Super G at all levels throughout our area, traditionally December through March.   

Posted 9/9/2025

Below is the link to the current version of the schedule for this coming season. We are in a winter sport and rely on the weather to operate, so it is a live excel spreadsheet that is locked. As things are updated throughout the season (because something always changes as the year goes on; it's too cold and we can't race or we can add another run based on signups), it will be changed and noted. If you have questions about it, please start with your coaches or program director. This calendar includes non-scored and scored in CR1, FIS in CR1 and Central, FIS in CO, U16 races in CO, and divisional and regional projects. The CR1 non-scored, scored, FIS, and Central FIS will be added to the Calendar page soon.

MEMBERSHIP

All Athletes, Officials, and Coaches must have a valid United States Ski & Snowboard (USSS) membership.  You can log-in to your account on usskiandsnowboard.org to register and/or renew your USSS membership for the upcoming 2025-2026 season.

CR1 membership will continue as it did last season, through US Ski and Snowboard national registration and be noted in your cart before you check-out.

RACE REGISTRATION will be the same as last year. We are going to use SKIREG.com to register for all our races.

More specific race day information will be posted each race week on the Race Day info section of this website.

Calendar

Our calendar is posted above, and will be found on the calendar tab soon.  The PDF will be dated, updated when appropriate for a go-to reference point.

Volunteering is an enjoyable and important part of our ski racing community.

Region 1 races are run by parent volunteers and coaches. 

At least 1 parent / guardian is needed to volunteer at at least ½ of the races your athlete attends for the system to work because ski racing requires many volunteers. 

Please signup early for volunteer positions so that we can plan races and avoid last minute staffing issues.

Learn more on our volunteer page now.

Our sport relies on volunteers and we are always looking for more.

Some positions are just volunteer and require no certification, these are for those parents and families that are new and just want to try out different positions and those parents not ready to commit to a certification. We will be setting up shadowing experiences throughout the season to help people get into volunteer positions. Volunteer Interest Newsletter Sign Up
 

Study Materials including the Update are HERE

Below are the options for already Certified Officials (except TDs, theirs is on Nov 6th). You MUST sign up and fill in all the information on the form. Your US Ski and Snowboard number is the most important as that is how USSS tracks your Update. Without it, you will not get credit. Those wanting to test this year are welcome to join so you can hear the information a couple times as you will be hearing it at the in-person clinic.

1) AO Update Nov 13 sign up. 

https://forms.gle/kNYdbvB6owVXt2bp9

Here is the link for the zoom meetings on 11/13 at 6pm CST

Join Zoom Meeting

Https://usskiandsnowboard-org.zoom.us/j/89516177010?pwd=N3pIbjhYS0ljN3J4ek5NN0NiaHZTZz09

Here is the link to all information that coaches need for the Team Captains' Meetings. It will get you to a Google file that has a paper with the ZOOM link and files for each age group. In those files are athlete lists, race announcement, and medical plan. Everything for race day will be done through WhatsApp for FIS and Telegram for Scored and Non-Scored.

TCM INFORMATION

central projects

For Divisional, Regional, and National projects, more information will be posted on USSS website.

CR1 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING SCHEDULE

Meeting Schedule (all at 7:00 PM) Link to all meetings on the Board of Directors page (under Member Resources) on this website.

Athletes and parents, learn to tune your skis by a professional so you can get that perfect tune when you are traveling to races! Contact Pierce Skate and Ski for details. (952)884-1990

 Congratulations to the winners of the 2024-2025 CR1 Volunteer of the Year and Athlete Sportsmanship Awards and to those nominated. It is a real testament to our group that so many were nominated for both awards.

This year we also did a Lifetime Achievement Award for one of our volunteers and Board of Directors members. congratulations Skip Wipson for getting this award for all your time and energy that you have put into CR1 of your years of service to volunteering and being a BOD member. One big contribution was leading us through COVID as our President and saving our season, as weird as it was.

Volunteer of the Year Winners
John Barrett
Kev Amirayan

Nominations
Sarah Barrett
Dave Bergan
John Katzung
Gavin McLain
Peter Molinaro
Brad Reid
Mike Strahl
Matt Stein
John Turcott
Jason Ward

Athlete Sportsmanship Award Winners
Grace Anderson
Jackson Reents

Nominations
Artin Amirayan
Emilia Berg
Cora Henry
Allison Mihalik
Owen McLain
Avery Moody
Kinsley Oberding
Tate Wilker

Congratulations again to everyone who was nominated and won. Keep up the good work!

CR1 loves our partners, volunteers and athletes and we want to recognize them! 

We have Volunteer of the Year for those volunteers that go above and beyond all year to make sure our races are the quality that our athletes and parents expect. Volunteering is the only way we get our races to happen and without them we wouldn't ski race anywhere. There are countless hours put in by so many.

We also want to celebrate those athletes that make our day better. Ski racing isn't just about teaching athletes how to win, all our programs strive to help parents create whole, well-rounded people that do have and will continue to have a positive impact on the world we live in. One male and one female athlete will be recognized by CR1 from your nominations of athletes that have great attitudes, are always looking for the positive in each situation, and are cheering on their fellow athletes, no matter where they finish.

CR1 added Partner of the Year to celebrate our relationship with our ski area partners that go above and beyond the normal schedule of events. Our relationship with the ski areas is vital to the success of our program, without them, we would do nothing. They show up early and stay late to help us run great races throughout the whole season come rain or shine or very, very cold. Every once and a while we have one step up more than the norm and helps save our season, this is our Partner of the Year because without them, we would not have had much of a season.

AWARD WINNERS

Volunteer of the Year goes to Gavin McLain and Jonathan Hopke. 

Also nominated were: John Barrett, Sarah Barrett, Scott Burns, Amy Carlson, Paul Humbert, John Kim, Rob McCroskey, David Mueller, Nick Richardson, Matt Stein, Mike Strahl, Heather Wendorf, and Skip Wipson.

Athlete Sportsmanship Award goes to Petey Jones and Jaclyn Lundeen.

Also nominated were: Artin Amirayan , Aeofe Barrett, Lily Bean, Eric Carlson, Ellie Hirn, Claire Humbert, Owen McLain, Fin Mulligan, Mac Mulligan, Sean Nolan, and Bennett Simmering.

Partner of the Year goes to Giants Ridge

Congratulations to all winners and nominees. CR1 is a better place because of all these people. THANK YOU!!

Please follow national, state, local, and US Ski and Snowboard regulations.