USA Luge announces its coaching team: Toni Eggert alongside Lubo Mick and Kaspars Dumpis

Lake Placid (FIL/25 Oct 2023) Just over a month before the start of the EBERESPAECHER Luge World Cup in Lake Placid (USA), the American Luge Federation (USA Luge) has announced its coaching team.

Surprisingly, besides head coach Lubomir Mick and Kaspars Dumpis, eleven-time German World Champion Toni Eggert has also been hired as coach of the US national team.

Lubomir Mick as head coach of the US national team

Lubomir Mick, an Olympic athlete for Slovakia, will serve as head coach. He will be assisted by Kaspars Dumpis, an Olympian from Latvia, and record World Cup winner in doubles Toni Eggert of Germany.

Mick has been the USA national coach for ten years, while Dumpis is in his second year as national coach. Eggert is new to the national team coaching staff after retiring from competitive luge sports in August 2023. One of Germany's most decorated doubles luge athletes, Toni Eggert won bronze at the 2018 Olympics and silver at the 2022 Olympics. Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken have won a record number of 54 World Cup victories and 106 World Cup podium finishes. At their home World Championships in Oberhof in January 2023, Eggert/Benecken once again proved their sporting superiority with three titles.

Jakub Šimonák will serve as manager of the U.S. national team. Pat Anderson returns as head coach of the junior national team after his athletes won eight medals in youth and junior competitions last season. He will continue to be supported by Artūrs Dārznieks as junior national coach. Darznieks is a 2018 and 2022 Olympian for Latvia. Keith Younger will serve as manager of the junior national team. 

Aidan Kelly, a 2014 Olympian, will remain in charge of the C Juniors. Two-time Olympian Jayson Terdiman will assist Kelly as team manager of the C Juniors.

photos: Lubomir Mick, Kaspars Dumpis and Toni Eggert