Chris Hendrickson
FULL-TIME StaffHead Coach, Men & Women Alpine Skiing
Athletics
Phone: 801.832.2349
Email: chendrickson@westminsteru.edu
Office Location: Payne Gymnasium
About
Chris Hendrickson serves as head coach for the Westminster alpine ski teams. He has
been the only coach the ski teams have had since the program was established in 2008.
He added his role as head golf coach prior to the 2010 campaign and led both the men’s
and women’s programs until dropping his role with the women’s team at the end of the
2014-15 season and the men's golf team in 2018.
Under Hendrickson, the ski program has seen unprecedented success. He guided the women’s
squad to back-to-back USCSA National Championships in 2009 and 2010. The men finished
second in each of those seasons. In 2011, Hendrickson led the Griffins into the RMISA
as a provisional member. The RMISA is considered the toughest conference in all of
the NCAA and features national powers like Colorado and Utah.
That first year in the RMISA, Hendrickson helped the women to a first-place finish
in the alpine events at the RMISA Championships, while the men and women combined
to place fourth in the alpine section of the race.
The Westminster golf teams improved on the course under Hendrickson. The Griffin
women won three-straight regular season Frontier Conference Championships from 2010-2012
after never finishing higher than fifth before that run. The women finished 14th overall
at the 2011 NAIA National Championships and placed 18th in 2012.
After Dane Jensen became the first male individual to qualify for the NAIA National
Championships in 2012, Hendrickson guided the Griffin men’s team to the 2013 Frontier
Conference Championship title and a trip to the NAIA National Championships where
they finished 23rd.
Hendrickson joined the Griffins after serving a stint as a head ski coach at Boise
State University. Prior to that, he was head coach and athletic director at Sierra
Nevada College located in Incline Village, Nevada. In 13 seasons at the Sierra Nevada,
his teams won 13 consecutive USCSA men’s national championships, and the women’s teams
won 10 national championships.
Hendrickson has also spent time with the US Ski Team serving as an assistant coach
to the alpine A-Team and serving as a head alpine coach at Northern Michigan University.
He graduated from the University of Utah with a B.S. in Leisure Studies.
