Head Coach Kris Cheney Seymour
Kris Cheney Seymour is the Head Nordic Ski Coach and a Lecturer at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Kris has successfully coached and mentored an impressive range of student-athletes from youth in development programs, to Olympic and World Cup caliber skiers. In 2006, Kris watched 3 of his former athletes compete in the Olympic Games in Torino, Italy.
Kris brings 14 years of coaching and teaching experience to the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Previous to joining the Presque Isle family, Kris worked for the Maine Winter Sports Center as a Head Coach, and he also served as Nordic Program Head for the New York Ski Educational Foundation in Lake Placid, New York. Kris was head coach for the Mid-Atlantic Division for numerous Junior Olympic Championships. Cheney Seymour has also worked as an assistant coach with the United States Biathlon Association at several national and international events in addition to domestic coaching efforts with the USBA Junior National and Development Teams.
In 1999 he was named the United States Olympic Committee Biathlon Development Coach of the Year. Kris earned a Masters Degree of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002 and is a 1993 graduate of St. Lawrence University were he was a competitor for their NCAA Division I Varsity Ski Team.
Kris makes his home in Caribou, Maine with his wife Amy and their two sons.
Assistant Coach Tom Upham
Tom is a former US Olympian who comes to the University of Maine Presque Isle Team with impressive credentials in skiing and coaching. He was a four Event skier in high school (Edward Little in Auburn, Maine), a cross country skier and jumper in college at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and a member of the 1968 Olympic Team in Grenoble, France. We was also a US National Team member from 1963 to 1968.
Tom coached the University of New Hampshire ski team from 1968 to 1972. He coached the women’s 1976 Olympic cross country ski team in Innsbruck, Austria. From 1968 to 1976 he was a specialty ski coach for the US Ski Team. He has been a national technical delegate for nordic events and has coached all three of his now-grown children in cross country skiing.
Tom spent twenty-one years as the owner of a wood stove/sporting goods store with ski equipment a large part of the buisness. He has been retired for several years.
Tom lives in Wilton, Maine with his wife Judy.
