Dan Leever, Grete Eliassen, Chris Seemann, and Martina Lussi have all been elected to the organisation’s Board of Directors and become the latest members of the governing body.

Leever has over 15 years’ experience working with Ski and Snowboard Club Vail in the United States and currently sits on the USSA Foundation Board of Trustees.

He also has strong knowledge of youth development in alpine skiing through his work as chairman of the Vail Snow Sports Foundation and the TA Foundation.

Winter X Games gold medallist Eliassen meanwhile brings a wealth of knowledge about the sport and she joins the USSA board in an ex-officio capacity, representing the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Athletes’ Advisory Council.

The 27-year-old, who now works as marketing director of messaging company Wickr, also has an International Ski Federation (FIS) Freestyle World Ski Championships bronze medal to her name after finishing third in the slopestyle event in Voss, Norway back in 2013.

She has been accompanied as a new member to the board by Seemann, who has been involved with the sport for over two decades.

Seemann began his career as an athlete before moving on to various different roles within the American team, including coach and technical advisor, and he is also currently the chairman of USSA’s freestyle and freeskiing sport committee.

Women’s Ski Jumping USA board member Lussi rounds off the list of the newly-elected Americans, and she is another representative who has experience in several different areas of the sport.

Lussi volunteered at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi and also worked in a similar capacity at Lake Placid's Olympic Jumping Complex.

Winter sport is an area which continues to develop in America and the nation recently staged the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, which took place at Vail and Beaver Creek in Colorado in February.

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