Albrigtsen has been with the Alaska Nanooks running and ski programs since 2018. After coming on as an assistant coach in 2018 under former head coach Nick Crawford, Albrigtsen has since been named the head coach of both programs. After spending the 2019 season overseeing both, she took 2020-21 off while on maternity leave.
The 2025-26 season will be her seventh year as the Nanooks head cross country and ski coach.
During her first year as the running coach, she led six runners to the NCAA West Region race in Monmouth, Ore.
Her second season was postponed due to COVID-19 and the team managed only two events in the spring of 2021.
While off in 20-21, Jennie Bender filled in as the active head ski coach. The ski program raced to a 10th-place finish at NCAA's in 2021. The 2021-22 season proved to the one for the history books. Albrigtsen led the Nanooks to a seventh-place finish at the 2022 NCAA Skiing Championships, the best finish ever by an Alaska team. This finish bested the Nanooks' previous best finish, a ninth-place finish in 1977, the team's first-ever appearance in the NCAA Ski Championships. The following season, the Nanooks once again took seventh in the NCAA Skiing Championships, which earned Albrigtsen RMISA Nordic Co-Coach of the Year honors.
During her time at Colorado, Eliska was one of the most dominant skiers in CU history. She won two team NCAA Championships and one individual NCAA Championship. She finished her career with six All-American honors, including four first-team awards on top of her individual championships. Alongside her NCAA awards, she was a four-time First Team All-RMISA skier and won three individual RMISA Championships. She finished in the top-10 in 45 of her 48 career races and placed on the podium (top-three) 33 times.
Before joining the Alaska Nanooks, Albrigtsen served as the head coach and junior development coach for the Central Cross Country Skiing organization in Madison, Wisconsin. She was also the program manager and junior head coach for the Madison Nordic Ski Club, while contributing as the community’s Olympic development coach.
Albrigtsen graduated in December 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in integrative physiology, and was a research assistant in the Locomotion Laboratory at UC Boulder, researching energetics and the biomechanics of human walking, running and cross country skiing.
