Madison's Story
Fast Facts
Sport: Alpine Skiing
Events: Giant Slalom, Slalom
Olympic History: Milano Cortina 2026
Highlights: 2018 Slalom and Giant Slalom National Champion
Year Born: 2000
About Madison
Born in Sydney, Madison “Madi” Hoffman found ski racing through her primary school’s interschool program at six, the start of a pathway that would take her from Australian winters to a year‑round training base in Park City, Utah, while completing a Finance degree at the University of Utah.
Hoffman progressed quickly as a junior, representing Australia at three FIS World Junior Ski Championships, highlighted by 14th in the giant slalom at Bansko in 2021. Later that year she made her senior World Cup debut in Sölden. The following northern winter, she was selected for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Team, only to be ruled out on the eve of the Games by a knee injury sustained at a collegiate race, a significant setback that would shape the resilience of her next seasons.
Her return in 2022/23 brought a steady climb. After consistent top‑ten finishes on the North American circuit, she claimed her first Nor‑Am Cup victory in giant slalom at Stratton, USA, building on two slalom silver medals at Osler Bluff the week prior.
The 2023/24 season marked a breakthrough at the sport’s highest level. In Levi, Finland, Hoffman finished 25th in the women’s slalom. Australia’s first World Cup slalom points since 2002, when Zali Steggall last scored in the discipline. It came in just the third World Cup start of her career and signalled her capacity to mix it with the world’s best.
Parallel to her national‑team duties, Hoffman delivered for the University of Utah. In 2023 she swept the NCAA women’s alpine titles in both giant slalom and slalom, the program’s first women’s double since 1990. In 2024 she returned to the NCAA Championships podium as runner‑up in both events, earning First Team All‑American honours for slalom and giant slalom.
Her spring 2024 form was equally compelling outside the collegiate sphere. At the U.S. Alpine National Championships in Sun Valley she tied for the women’s slalom race win (the American title went to the top U.S. athlete), and in April she added a Nor‑Am Cup slalom victory in Panorama, British Columbia.
Hoffman opened 2024/25 with Oceania starts at Coronet Peak, then returned to North America for a rich December Nor‑Am block at Panorama: third and second in the slaloms followed by a giant slalom victory, the third Nor‑Am win of her career. Those results sat alongside early‑season World Cups at Levi, Gurgl and Killington as she balanced development and elite‑level exposure.
In the back half of that northern winter she suffered another major knee setback that curtailed her campaign. Snow Australia later noted she had undergone a double knee reconstruction and was rehabbing with a view to a 2026 Olympic push.
Despite the interruption, Hoffman’s trajectory and influence within the squad were underlined when she was confirmed on Snow Australia’s National Alpine “A Team” for 2025/26, a key period leading into Milano Cortina 2026.
