Navigating Junior Alpine Racing from the Heart of the Alps

Unfiltered logistics, real costs, and raw experiences from a family that relocated to Austria to support a junior ski racer.

liana alpine skimama in the austrian alps

  • What It Really Means to Be a Mom of an Alpine Racer

    If you’ve ever watched your kid disappear behind a gate and felt your heart fall into your ski boots, congratulations — you’re officially a ski mom. And if your child actually races… well, welcome to a whole new world. One you don’t really understand until you’re living inside it. People imagine ski racing as shiny…

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  • How our Ski Racing Journey Started

    There are moments in life that reveal themselves only in hindsight, pieces of a story forming quietly long before you realize you’re living the beginning of something extraordinary. When I look back now, I can trace the line so clearly — yet at the time, it felt like nothing more than a series of winter…

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  • Moving to Austria for Junior Ski Racing: Why We Left Everything Behind

    My name is Liana, and although I was born and I have spent my life in my homecountry, Romania, life recently brought me and my family to the Austrian Alps.

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