USSA Management Team

Bill Marolt, President/Chief Executive Officer

Bill Marolt, a 1964 Olympian who was the U.S. alpine skiing director during some of the U.S. Ski Team’s most successful years before taking over as the University of Colorado’s athletic director, came back to the USSA in the summer of 1996 as president and chief executive officer. An Aspen, CO, native, Marolt won three U.S. championships – the 1963 downhill title, slalom in 1964 and giant slalom in 1965. Following his retirement as an athlete in 1968, he returned to Colorado as head ski coach in 1969, winning seven NCAA titles from 1969-78. He then served as director of the U.S. alpine program from 1978-84. U.S. skiers won five medals, including three gold and two silver, at the ’84 Olympic Games in Sarajevo. At the end of the ’84 season, Marolt resigned to accept the athletic director’s post at his alma mater. Under Marolt, the Buffaloes put together one of the strongest Division I collegiate sports programs, including a national football title (’90) and several more NCAA ski championships. Marolt has two daughters, Katy and Shannon. He and his wife Connie live in Park City.

Mark Lampe, Executive Vice President/Chief Financial Officer

A former World Cup and professional freestyle skier, Mark Lampe coordinates the financial operations for USSA. He received both undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Utah. After retiring from international competition in 1983, he spent 12 years in Denver and Salt Lake City with the leading accounting firm KPMG (Peat Marwick), overseeing a wide variety of financial activities, from high technology and sports manufacturing services to public securities and debentures. Lampe has served as chairman of the board of Ririe Woodbury Dance Co. in Salt Lake City, one of the nation’s outstanding modern dance troupes, and is a graduate of Leadership Utah. Lampe has one daughter and lives in Salt Lake City.

Luke Bodensteiner, Executive Vice President, Athletics

A two-time Olympian and NCAA champion, Luke Bodensteiner oversees the integration of the USSA's six sports under a unified strategic plan emphasizing high performance services. A Wisconsin native, Bodensteiner competed as a cross country athlete with the U.S. Ski Team at the 1992 and 1994 Olympics and had a stellar career with the University of Utah, winning both a national team title and two individual crowns. He started with the USSA in 1996, developing what is now the USSA Cross Country SuperTour. He was named cross country manager in 1997, nordic director in 2001 and associate athletic director for high performance in March, 2008. He took over his athletics leadership position in November 2008. He and his family live in Heber City, UT.

Calum Clark, Vice President, Events

Calum Clark, who has worked as a senior World Cup event manager for USSA since 2004, was named as USSA's vice president, events, in June, 2007. Clark is responsible for management of around 20 major international events in the USA including World Cups, U.S. Championships, Chevrolet U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix and other Continental Cup-level competitions, overseeing around a $5-million budget. Clark came to USSA in 2004 after working in a variety of events-related positions including both the 2000 Sydney and 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. He has a strong background in sport, competing as an alpine athlete, as a coach and as executive director of a regional ski association in his native Australia. During the 2002 Olympics he worked as a senior venue manager at Snowbasin, working with alpine downhill and super G events. Clark and his wife Maikella have a young son, Finley, and live in Park City.

Tom Kelly, Vice President, Communications

Tom Kelly, who has nearly 40 years experience in ski-related marketing and public relations, came to USSA in 1986 as assistant national nordic director and took over public relations management in 1988. Kelly oversees all public relations, corporate communications and image development for USSA. He is also active within his field in both the International Federation, where he serves as chairman of the FIS PR & Mass Media Committee, and the U.S. Olympic Committee. Prior to coming to USSA, Kelly, a 1974 University of Wisconsin graduate and Wisconsin native, worked first as a ski journalist and public relations professional in the early 1970s before taking over marketing and public relations for Telemark Resort in northern Wisconsin, home of the American Birkebeiner cross country ski race, where he was instrumental in the development of the Worldloppet ski series. He and his wife Carole Duh live in Park City and have four grown children and nine grandchildren.