As with the other Olympic sports, wanted to start a thread to report and discuss any news for the skiing Buffs.
To start this thread off STRONG- HUGE congrats to Mikaela Tommy for her well-earned BIG honor!
Direct link to article - https://cubuffs.com/news/2020/4/6/skiing-tommy-named-national-skier-of-the-year.aspx
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DENVER—Mikaela Tommy was named the National Women's Alpine Skier of the Year by the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association, the organization announced Monday.
Tommy, a senior from Wakefield, Quebec, dominated this season, especially in GS action. She finished six of seven GS races on the season with five wins and one second place. Her first career DNF (did not finish) in GS action was at the NCAA Championships, a race she was favored to do very well in if not win. In all, she had nine podium appearances in 10 finished races on the season.
Her five wins this season in GS would be enough to be CU's career leader in GS wins. She also won three GS races in 2019, giving her eight in her career, double more than any other women's alpine skier in program history. She won four consecutive GS races as in 2020 and three in 2019, the two best marks in CU history.
She was named the Women's Alpine Skier of the Year and won the Women's Alpine MVP based on the regular season NCAA Qualification point totals, and was the RMISA Individual Champion in the GS. She was the top GS qualifier out of the RMISA for the NCAA Championships and No. 5 on the slalom list and the No. 2 overall seed. She was also the start list points leader for GS and fifth for slalom in the 2020 season.
She matched the CU record set by Lucie Zikova by winning eight runs during the season, as she took six GS runs and two slalom runs during the season. Along with teammate Stef Fleckenstein, the two became the third and fourth skiers and the fourth and fifth instance of women's alpine skiers winning multiple runs in both disciplines in a season.
Tommy is CU's second National Athlete of the Year for this season, joining Dani Jones, who was named the Track & Field National Athlete of the Year by the USTFCCCA last month.
Other skiers honored by the Ski Coaches Association were Joachim Lein (Utah, men's alpine), Guro Jordheim (Utah, women's Nordic) and Ben Ogden (Vermont, men's Nordic). Middlebury's Stever Bartlett was named the National Alpine Coach of the Year and Vermont's Patrick Weaver the National Nordic Coach of the Year.
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To start this thread off STRONG- HUGE congrats to Mikaela Tommy for her well-earned BIG honor!
Direct link to article - https://cubuffs.com/news/2020/4/6/skiing-tommy-named-national-skier-of-the-year.aspx
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DENVER—Mikaela Tommy was named the National Women's Alpine Skier of the Year by the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association, the organization announced Monday.
Tommy, a senior from Wakefield, Quebec, dominated this season, especially in GS action. She finished six of seven GS races on the season with five wins and one second place. Her first career DNF (did not finish) in GS action was at the NCAA Championships, a race she was favored to do very well in if not win. In all, she had nine podium appearances in 10 finished races on the season.
Her five wins this season in GS would be enough to be CU's career leader in GS wins. She also won three GS races in 2019, giving her eight in her career, double more than any other women's alpine skier in program history. She won four consecutive GS races as in 2020 and three in 2019, the two best marks in CU history.
She was named the Women's Alpine Skier of the Year and won the Women's Alpine MVP based on the regular season NCAA Qualification point totals, and was the RMISA Individual Champion in the GS. She was the top GS qualifier out of the RMISA for the NCAA Championships and No. 5 on the slalom list and the No. 2 overall seed. She was also the start list points leader for GS and fifth for slalom in the 2020 season.
She matched the CU record set by Lucie Zikova by winning eight runs during the season, as she took six GS runs and two slalom runs during the season. Along with teammate Stef Fleckenstein, the two became the third and fourth skiers and the fourth and fifth instance of women's alpine skiers winning multiple runs in both disciplines in a season.
Tommy is CU's second National Athlete of the Year for this season, joining Dani Jones, who was named the Track & Field National Athlete of the Year by the USTFCCCA last month.
Other skiers honored by the Ski Coaches Association were Joachim Lein (Utah, men's alpine), Guro Jordheim (Utah, women's Nordic) and Ben Ogden (Vermont, men's Nordic). Middlebury's Stever Bartlett was named the National Alpine Coach of the Year and Vermont's Patrick Weaver the National Nordic Coach of the Year.
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