Jared Schmidt

Jared Schmidt couldn’t have imagined a better start to the 2023-24 season, becoming the first Canadian since Marielle Thompson in 2017 and the first Canadian man to win three ski cross World Cup races in a row in Val Thorens, FRA, Arosa, SWI and Innichen, ITA.

Those three wins, in addition to two third-place finishes in Arosa and Bakuriani, GEO brought him to five World Cup podium appearances before he added his sixth in 2024-25 with a third-place finish in Veysonnaz, SUI.

The younger of the Schmidt siblings, Jared, joined Team Canada alongside his sister, Hannah, in 2018-19. The former alpine racer admits he was never the best in alpine, but a text from Brittany Phelan, now a teammate, changed it all. Along with his sister, he gave ski cross a try, and he has not looked back since. He moved to Calgary to pursue skiing full-time and enrolled in classes at Mount Royal University. After finishing fourth in the NorAm Cup circuit in 2019, the text he got from Phelan looks even better.