- Park City moguls skier Alli Macuga, a 2023 junior world champion and FIS Rookie of the Year, reached two World Cup podiums in 2023-24 and is on the 2026-27 U.S. moguls B team. The World Cup visits Deer Valley in January.
- Lauren Macuga, Alli Macuga connect back to Utah Homegrown and the wider olympic sports picture.
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Alli Macuga, a freestyle moguls skier from Park City, Utah, was named to the moguls B team of the 2026-27 Stifel U.S. Freestyle Ski Team on Oct. 10, 2026, with U.S. Ski & Snowboard listing Park City as her hometown, Park City Ski & Snowboard as her club and the University of Utah as her college.
She has been on a World Cup podium twice, and she got there before either of her sisters. Team USA reported that Alli was the first of the three Macuga sisters to step onto a World Cup podium, in December 2023, when she placed third in dual moguls at Alpe d'Huez, France, on Dec. 16, FIS results show.
A family of three national-team skiers
The Macugas are a Park City winter sports family. Team USA reported that the family moved to Park City when the girls were in elementary school and that they started through the Youth Sports Alliance, an after-school program begun after the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. Alli's sister Lauren Macuga is an alpine skier on the U.S. team, her sister Sam is a ski jumper, and her younger brother, Daniel, races alpine, Team USA reported.
Alli chose moguls because it "has all the aspects of most winter sports; you have the turns, the jumping, and the speed, which I love," she told Team USA.
The sisters pushed each other, she said: "The competitive spirit is what got us here. But we also really built each other up."
When Lauren won her first World Cup race, Alli watched the replay with their mother, Team USA reported. "It was crazy. I knew she could do it, but she actually did it!" she told Team USA.
Junior world champion
Macuga made her name at the Junior World Championships in Chiesa in Valmalenco, Italy. In March 2022 she won bronze in both moguls and dual moguls there, and a year later, at the same venue, she won the mixed dual moguls team event on March 24, 2023, and the individual dual moguls title the next day, FIS results show. Team USA counts four junior world medals.
Team USA reported that she made the U.S. Ski Team in 2022, after her two junior world bronze medals. FIS named her its 2022-23 Rookie of the Year, Team USA says. That season she made her World Cup debut at Ruka, Finland, on Dec. 3, 2022, placing 12th, and she won the NorAm Cup moguls, dual moguls and overall titles, by FIS standings.
Fifth in the world
The 2023-24 World Cup season brought both of her podiums, after a start in which she broke her hand in training the day before the first World Cup, U.S. Ski & Snowboard reported. The Alpe d'Huez result was her first World Cup podium. At Almaty she scored 76.17 to finish second to Australia's Jakara Anthony, and U.S. Ski & Snowboard called it her first career moguls podium.
"I'm beyond ecstatic to get my first singles World Cup podium, let alone a second place!" she said. "I've been working a lot on pushing myself on all aspects of mogul skiing and especially with my jumps and skiing out of them."
After Alpe d'Huez she placed fourth in moguls and dual moguls at Bakuriani, Georgia, just before Christmas, fourth in moguls at Val St. Come, Quebec, on Jan. 19, 2024, and second in moguls at Almaty, Kazakhstan, on March 8, 2024. She finished the season fifth in the World Cup overall moguls standings with 615 points, by FIS, and U.S. Ski & Snowboard says she ended it ranked fifth in the world.
Team USA's profile says she then struggled with post-concussion syndrome aggravated by an offseason head injury suffered while training.
Team USA reported that the injury came at a summer training camp in July 2024, when she accidentally struck her face with a ski pole. She still placed eighth in moguls at the Deer Valley World Cup on Feb. 6, 2025, FIS results show. She came back to win the NorAm dual moguls title in 2024-25, her second dual moguls title in three seasons by Team USA's count, with wins that included Deer Valley on Feb. 13, 2025, and then won the dual moguls at the 2025 U.S. Championships at Palisades Tahoe, FIS results show.
In 2025-26 she was seventh in moguls at Ruka in December and finished 13th in the World Cup overall moguls standings, by FIS. She was not selected for the U.S. Olympic team, and CBS News reported in February that the Macuga sisters still have their sights on a Games.
The 2026-27 season
The FIS moguls World Cup opens at Ruka on Dec. 12, 2026, and moves to Val St. Come and Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, in January. The tour comes to Utah for the Freestyle International at Deer Valley on Jan. 28-30, 2027, before stops in Almaty and Shahdag, Azerbaijan. The FIS Freestyle World Championships are in Montafon, Austria, in March 2027.
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Key facts:
- Athlete: Alli Macuga, freestyle moguls, 2026-27 Stifel U.S. Freestyle Ski Team moguls B team
- Hometown: Park City, Utah; Park City Ski & Snowboard; University of Utah
- Junior Worlds: dual moguls and mixed dual moguls team champion, 2023; four junior world medals
- Award: FIS Rookie of the Year, 2022-23
- World Cup podiums: third, dual moguls, Alpe d'Huez, Dec. 16, 2023; second, moguls, Almaty, March 8, 2024
- World Cup standings: fifth overall in moguls in 2023-24
- Family: sisters Lauren (alpine) and Sam (ski jumping)
- Next in Utah: Deer Valley World Cup, Jan. 28-30, 2027
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