Alice Robinson has joined the HEAD Worldcup Rebels, giving HEAD’s women’s ski racing team a serious injection of nerve, pace and Kiwi edge before the next chapter of her alpine career.
The 24-year-old New Zealander arrives with a CV that already has more sparkle than a freshly waxed race ski under floodlights. Robinson finished last season second overall in the Super-G standings and claimed silver in the Giant Slalom at the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach. Add seven World Cup victories — six in Giant Slalom and one in Super-G — and this is not a speculative signing. It is a statement with sharp edges.
HEAD Add Another Heavyweight To The Rebels
HEAD have been busy assembling a race stable with the subtlety of a downhill skier attacking a blind rollover. Robinson follows Henrik Kristoffersen and Christof Innerhofer into the HEAD Worldcup Rebels set-up, and her arrival gives the women’s squad one of the most watchable attacking racers in the sport.
There are skiers who manage a course. Robinson tends to interrogate it at speed. When she is on song, she skis with that magnificent combination of precision and controlled insolence: clean enough for the coaches, aggressive enough to make the gates look personally offended.
For HEAD, that is exactly the appeal.
Why Alice Robinson Fits The HEAD Racing Blueprint
Robinson’s value is not merely in what she has already won, but in the shape of what may still be available. She has already proved she can win in Giant Slalom. She has already proved she can contend in Super-G. She has already shown she belongs in the sharp end of World Cup ski racing, where the margins are indecently small and the consequences of a poor line arrive very quickly indeed.
“Alice Robinson is a brilliant athlete who is willing to take risks and attack the run with a vengeance. I’m very confident that at HEAD we can help her take the next step,” says HEAD Racing Director, Rainer Salzgeber. “It really is a great pleasure to have an athlete like her in the team. Last season, she was a contender for the Crystal Globe in two disciplines: the Super-G and the Giant Slalom. That clearly has to be our mission now. She is still a relatively young athlete. I am looking forward to helping her succeed in this mission over the coming seasons.”
That is the important bit. Not just that Robinson is fast. Plenty are fast. The key is that she is fast in two disciplines where HEAD can now aim beyond podium cameos and towards season-long contention.
A New Chapter For A Racer With Plenty Still To Write
At 24, Robinson is young enough to be developing and experienced enough to know exactly what a World Cup start house feels like when the clock, the course and the expectations all start breathing down your neck.
Her move to HEAD is therefore less of a reset and more of an escalation. The machinery changes. The ambition does not. If anything, it now has a larger microphone.
“I’m absolutely delighted to be joining HEAD and to start this new chapter together with them,” said Alice Robinson. “HEAD has a long and successful history in ski racing and has always achieved success at the very highest level. I am grateful for this opportunity, excited about the future, and highly motivated to work with this amazing team.”
It is a polished quote, yes, but there is a useful truth inside it. In alpine racing, equipment partnerships are not decorative. They are intimate, technical and unforgiving. A boot set-up, a ski response, a feeling underfoot at 100kph — these are not small matters. They are the difference between holding a line and explaining afterwards why one got away.
Crystal Globe Ambition Now Feels Like The Point
Salzgeber’s mention of the Crystal Globe is not accidental. Robinson was in the hunt across Super-G and Giant Slalom last season, and HEAD will clearly see her as more than another logo on the roster.
The HEAD Worldcup Rebels now gain a racer with proven World Championship pedigree, World Cup winning speed and an appetite for the sort of courses that reward commitment rather than caution. That is a potent mix, particularly in disciplines where rhythm, courage and equipment trust have to shake hands at terrifying velocity.
For Robinson, this is the sort of move that invites scrutiny. For HEAD, it invites expectation. For everyone else, it makes the women’s World Cup picture a little more interesting, which is usually where the fun begins.
A Signing With Bite
| Category | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1st of December 2001 in Sydney (Australia) |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Skiing club | Queenstown Alpine Ski Team |
| Disciplines | Super-G and Giant Slalom |
| Achievements | Silver medal in the Giant Slalom at the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach, 2nd place in the 2025/26 Super-G World Cup, 2nd place in the 2024/25 Giant Slalom World Cup, 5th place overall in the World Cup 2025/26, seven World Cup victories (six in the Giant Slalom, one in the Super-G): Super-G St. Moritz 2025, Giant Slalom Mont-Tremblant 2025, Giant Slalom Copper Mountain 2025, Giant Slalom Kronplatz 2025, Giant Slalom Lenzerheide 2021, Giant Slalom Kranjska Gora 2020, Giant Slalom Sölden 2019 and 24 World Cup podium finishes |
There is always a temptation in ski racing to overstate a team move before a single gate has been clipped in anger. But Robinson to HEAD has the feel of something more substantial than a tidy contractual update.
She brings form, medals, victories and a racing temperament that does not appear especially interested in asking permission. HEAD bring depth, pedigree and the kind of alpine racing infrastructure built for athletes who would rather chase globes than collect polite applause.
The snow will have the final word, as it generally does. But for now, Alice Robinson joining the HEAD Worldcup Rebels looks like one of those moves that makes the start hut feel a little smaller for everyone else.
