Meg Yoder – a former four-year varsity skier at Colby College and assistant coach at multiple clubs including Eastern Mass Cross Country – joined the Harvard University nordic skiing coaching staff as an assistant coach prior to the 2025 EISA season and enters her second season with the program in 2025-26.
In her first season at Harvard in 2025-26, Yoder helped coach Quincy Donley ’25 to an appearance at the NCAA Championships and Elias Soulé ’28 to an appearance at the Biathlon Junior World Championships.
After skiing at Colby for four seasons from 2015-19, Yoder has coached with multiple clubs including with Eastern Mass Cross Country (2019-24), Mansfield Nordic Club (2024), and the Massachusetts Nordic Program (2021-24). She has also served as a board member with the Friends of Leo J. Martin Skiing.
During her time with Eastern Mass Cross Country, Yoder coached multiple practices per week with high-school-aged students, while also serving as a wax technician with the program, supporting athletes in the preparation, execution, and review of races. Yoder coached at several EMXC training camps throughout the year and also worked individually with multiple athletes to design individualized training programs.
With the Massachusetts Nordic Program, Yoder acted as the head coach of the 2023 U16 team at the regional championships in Fort Kent, Maine, coordinating with the team leader and six assistant coaches to support 40 athletes over three days of competition. While with MA Nordic, she also served as a coach and wax technician at championship events in 2022 and 2024.
As a collegiate skier, Yoder competed for four seasons with the Mules, captaining the team during her junior and senior seasons. At Colby, she earned the Sonya Hall Leadership Award.
A native of Concord, Massachusetts and a product of Concord-Carlisle High School, Yoder earned a bachelor’s degree in geology with a minor in environmental studies from Colby College in 2019. She is currently a PhD candidate at Boston College in oceanography with a dissertation entitled “Carbon Cycling in the Irminger Sea” with an expected completion in the summer of 2026.
