52 Olympic Athletes Who Have "Normal" Jobs To Support Their Dreams

Reaching the Olympic level successful immoderate athletics takes a immense magnitude of clip — and money. Athletes person to wage for years of training, equipment, question betwixt competitions, etc. While immoderate are capable to marque a surviving arsenic full-time nonrecreational athletes, others enactment a secondary occupation to enactment their dreams.

Here are 52 Team USA athletes who person "normal" jobs:

Note: This won't see each of the hockey players who are PWHL and NHL pros!

1. During the off-season, alpine skier Keely Cashman works arsenic a barista astatine the java store her household owns, the Serene Bean.

2. Curler Tara Peterson is simply a dentist successful White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

3. Curler Tabitha Peterson Lovick (who's Tara's older sister) is simply a pharmacist.

4. Alpine skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle is employed astatine Cochran's Slopeside Syrup, which is the maple syrup store his household runs.

5. Pairs fig skater Danny O'Shea is simply a realtor and pairs skating coach.

6. When snowboarder Cody Winters was lone 18, helium started his ain institution called Winters Window Washing, which helium continues to tally during the summer.

7. Curler Rich Ruohonen is simply a personal wounded attorney. He's a spouse astatine his firm, wherever helium specializes successful representing victims of car accidents and traumatic encephalon injuries.

8. In the summer, alpine skier Paula Moltzan works arsenic a whitewater rafting usher truthful that she and her husband, Ryan Mooney (who's besides her skis technician), tin spend to question during the skis season.

9. Freestyle skier Chris Lillis teaches soft and guitar lessons successful Park City, Utah.

10. During the off-season, luger Jonny Gustafson works assorted work jobs. It helps him decompress from grooming and enactment busy.

13. Snowboarder Nick Baumgartner worked pouring factual earlier becoming a golden medalist astatine the 2022 Olympic Games successful Beijing.

15. Alpine skier Nina O'Brien earned her economics grade from Dartmouth, and she has a concern occupation astatine a backstage equity firm.

16. Ice dancer Madison Chock is simply a manner decorator for different fig skaters. Her concern is called Madison Chock Design. In the 2024–25 season, the look she designed for Spanish skater Olivia Smart won the ISU's Best Costume.

17. Snowboarder Nathan Pare spends the off-season doing residential operation work, which helps money his diversion career.

19. Speedskater Clayton DeClemente has a job successful the concession basal astatine the Olympic Oval successful Salt Lake City. He balances his grooming with up to 4 shifts a week.

20. Alpine skier Sam Morse is simply a registered Maine Guide, which permits him to pb wilderness trips and akin experiences. He's besides the laminitis of FAST (Faith and Ski Training) Camps, which, per the official website, aims "to fortify the skiing skills and religion of young skis racers done coaching and community."

21. Curler Ben Richardson is simply a cellist. He studied astatine the Cleveland Institute of Music.

22. For 5 years, cross-country skier Jack Young had a summertime occupation astatine Cajun's snack bar.

23. Cross-country skier Hailey Swirbul started coaching astatine Alaska Pacific University successful 2025. Initially, she coached the inferior program, and now, she besides coaches the elite program.

25. Singles fig skater Andrew Torgashev works arsenic a manager astatine Great Park Ice.

26. Freestyle skier Dylan Walczyk partnered with teacher Michael Schaefer to co-found Steezy Joe Network, an online level "where bump skiing is king, the vibe is chill, and the euphony takes you backmost to the aureate epoch of skiing." They make instructional videos astir mogul skiing connected societal media.

27. Curler Korey Dropkin is simply a realtor successful bluish Minnesota and Wisconsin.

28. Ice hockey subordinate Kendall Coyne Schofield voiced a hockey announcer successful the Pixar movie Inside Out 2. She besides runs the Schofield Family Foundation — which supports younker sports organizations, archetypal responders, the military, and families successful request successful their assemblage — with her husband, erstwhile NFL subordinate Michael Schofield.

29. Curler Aileen Geving works successful insurance.

30. Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn runs a accumulation institution called Après Productions. She's besides the writer of 2 books — Strong Is the New Beautiful and Rise: My Story — and the laminitis of the Lindsey Vonn Foundation.

31. Snowboarder Chloe Kim has worked successful the manner industry. She's made aggregate collections with Roxy, her outerwear sponsor, and she partnered with Vogue and eBay to exemplary vintage looks for the "Eternal Eras of Fashion" campaign.

33. Snowboarder Jake Vedder created an autobiographical comic publication series.

34. Curler Luc Violette is simply a civilian plan engineer. He likes the angles and "weird physics" of curling.

35. Luger Summer Britcher has worked successful sports broadcasting arsenic an adept commentator.

36. Freestyle skier Derek Krueger is the co-owner of a Utah alert sportfishing usher work called Utah Troutfitters. He's an avid alert fisher.

37. Ski Mountaineer Cam Smith works arsenic an teacher astatine the Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte.

Many athletes articulation the subject and the World Class Athlete Program, which gives immoderate subject subordinate the accidental to vie successful Olympic sports. It has grooming centers crossed the US. More than 450 soldier-athletes person competed astatine the highest level of their sports.

38. Pairs fig skater Spencer Akira Howe joined the Army successful 2024. He's besides a hockey and fig skating manager astatine The Skating Club of Boston.

39. In 2018, biathlete Sean Doherty signed up for the Army. With the Vermont Army National Guard, he's a carpentry and masonry specialist.

40. Bobsledder Frank Del Duca is an Army sergeant who's stationed successful Lake Placid, New York.

42. Nordic combined skier Ben Loomis enlisted successful the Army successful 2019. He's a sergeant.

44. Biathlete Deedra Irwin has been successful the Vermont Army National Guard since 2019.

45. Skeleton jock Kelly Curtis is successful the Air Force.

46. Luger Emily Fischnaller is an Army seasoned who served for much than a decade. She besides co-founded Champions 4 Changes, a nonprofit that runs Olympian and Paralympian-led fittingness classes for radical of each abilities.

Many Olympic athletes commencement nonprofits to enactment causes that are important to them.

47. Freestyle skier Winter Vinecki is the founder of Team Winter, which raises consciousness and wealth for prostate probe successful grant of her precocious dad.

49. Luger Zachary DiGregorio is the co-founder of Champions 4 Changes, a nonprofit that runs Olympian and Paralympian-led fittingness classes for radical of each abilities.

50. Snowboarder Jake Pates is the founder of the Happy Healthy Brain Foundation, which raises consciousness astir concussion protocols and the value of baseline encephalon scanning for athletes.

51. Cross-country skier Samantha Smith is the co-founder of GO BIG Inc., which offers sports equipment, mentorship, and acquisition resources to kids successful Boise.

52. And finally, singles fig skater Maxim Naumov is the on-ice director for the younker programme his precocious parents founded, Tomorrow's Champions, astatine the Skating Club of Boston.