Ciccone holds an alpine official referee license and is a Level 100 Alpine Coach with the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association.
Cameron Ciccone – who has coached alpine ski racing since 2003 – enters his ninth season as an alpine assistant coach with Harvard University skiing in 2025-26.
Ciccone joined the Crimson as an assistant coach for the 2017-18 season and aids the Crimson in several areas including team development, training planning, budget, equipment, and travel.
In 2024-25, Ciccone mentored two of the breakout stars on the EISA circuit in Duncan Armstrong ’28 and Skylar Sheppard ’28. Armstrong qualified for the NCAA Championships in his rookie season while Sheppard – who clocked the fastest time in the first run of the slalom at the Dartmouth Carnival – tallied four top-10 finishes over the year’s first four carnivals before missing the latter portion of the season due to injury.
During the 2023-24 season, Ciccone helped guide a student-athlete to the NCAA Championships for the fourth straight season as Elsie Halvorsen ’24 qualified for NCAAs. Ciccone helped the Crimson host the Harvard Carnival for the third time in five years (2020, 2023, 2024).
In 2022-23, Ciccone coached Frederick Willumsen Haug on his way to the NCAA Championships. Ciccone helped the Crimson host the Harvard Carnival for the second time in three competitive seasons (2020, 2023).
Returning to competition in 2021-22, Ciccone coached Matt Ryan ’25 who became the first male alpine skier to represent the Crimson at NCAAs since 1988 following his stellar debut season that featured a pair of top-10 finishes.
Due to COVID-19, the 2020-21 skiing season was canceled by the Ivy League.
During the 2019-20 season, Ciccone helped Nellie Ide ’22 qualify for the 2020 NCAA Championships. Under Ciccone’s watch, Ide earned Academic All-Ivy honors in 2019, 2020, and 2022. Ciccone helped the Crimson host the Harvard Carnival for the first time in 2020.
He began his collegiate coaching experience with Boston College from 2024-15, helping the Eagles develop student-athletes in the highly competitive EISA, including responsibilities around training planning and travel logistics.
Alongside his ski coaching experience, Ciccone has an extensive background as a yoga teacher, bicycle and ski technician, and photographer. He has taught yoga since 2013, including attaining a 200-hour yoga training certificate. An avid cyclist, he has enjoys the outdoors, woodworking, and furniture making.
A former alpine ski racer himself who competed for four seasons on the U.S. Free Ski Tour based out of Jackson, Wyoming from 2006-09, he began his alpine ski coaching career with the Franconia Ski Club in Franconia, New Hampshire from 2003-06.
A native of Bethlehem, New Hampshire and a product of the White Mountain School, Ciccone earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 2006.
