Alexa Brabec
US Ski Team
Alexa Brabec (born October 8, 2004) is an American skier who competes in Nordic combined. She is from Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She grew up skiing for the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club. Brabec was named to the first team of women to represent the United States in Nordic Combined at a World Championship event, In 2020, Brabec competed at the Youth Olympic Games, which was the first time women’s Nordic Combined was included in the competition. Brabec was a member of the U.S. World Championship team in 2021 and 2023.
In 2024, Brabec placed second overall in the HS102/5 km event at the Nordic Junior World Ski Championships, winning the first-ever medal in Women’s Nordic Combined for the United States at the Junior World Championships. She also placed second over all in the Team Sprint HS102/2×4.5 event with Kai McKinnon, similarly winning the United States’s first medal in a Women’s Nordic Combined team event.
As Nordic combined is the only Winter Olympic sport without a women’s competition, Brabec’s family, particularly her mother, who is a lawyer, advocates for gender equity in the sport.
Brabec is a student at the University of Utah.