Reid Completes Her Winter Olympic Competition

BOULDER — Former University of Colorado Nordic skier Joanne Reid competed Thursday in the women's biathlon 4x6K relay, helping Team USA to a 13th-place finish with a collective time of 1:14.05.3 at the Alpensia Biathlon Center.

Reid was paired with three other former collegiate athletes in Susan Dunklee (Dartmouth), Clare Egan (Wellesley/New Hampshire) and Emily Dreissigacker (Dartmouth) in what was the last women's biathlon competition of these Winter Olympic Games.

It was Reid's fourth race in her first Olympic appearance.

She finishes with an 86th place finish in the women's 7.5K sprint, placed 22nd out of 87 finishers in the women's 15K individual and was a part of the 2x6K women plus 2x7K men mixed relay team that placed 15th in addition to her 13th place women's relay finish Thursday.

Reid, 25, is the daughter of 1980 Olympic speedskating bronze medalist Beth (Heiden) Reid, and the niece of Eric Heiden, a five-time Olympic gold medalist in speedskating.

She took up biathlon in 2015 after earning her undergraduate degree in applied mathematics ('13) and an engineering master's from Colorado in information and communication technology for development ('17).

In her days as a Buff, Reid won 11 races from 2010-13, which ranks in a tie for the seventh-most wins by any Buffalo, regardless of discipline or gender, in school history. Her nine victories in her magical 2013 senior campaign are the third-most ever in a single-season, and she capped off that winter by winning the 15K freestyle race at the NCAA Championships to help the Buffs win what was then the 19th national title in school history.

Reid earned five first-team and two second-team All-America honors in her career, was the 2013 RMISA Most Valuable Skier for Nordic and named to the 2013 National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team, which is essentially an Academic All-America honor that requires a minimum 3.5 GPA.

Hyncicova Update
Colorado women's Nordic skier Petra Hyncicova, a senior for the Buffs, will have her fourth and final event of these Olympic Games when she races Sunday in the Ladies' 30K classic mass start. She is representing the Czech Republic in what is her first Olympic appearance.

Hyncicova in her first three races placed 45th out of 68 competitors in the classic sprint qualification heat, finished 47th out of 62 in the Ladies' 15K Skiathlon and was 60th out of 90 in the field in the Ladies' 10K freestyle.

Hyncicova swept the Nordic titles at last winter's NCAA Championships held in New Hampshire, becoming the 15th woman ever to sweep the cross country races at the NCAA Championships. She has six career race victories as a Buff, one of which came this winter in the 10K skate at the U.S. Cross Country Championships before she departed for PyeongChang.

She is set to fly back to the U.S. and return to the team after her race on Sunday. Thus, she will miss the 2018 RMISA Championships/NCAA Western Regional that Colorado is hosting this weekend in Steamboat Springs. Having finished first or second in five out of the six races she competed in before departing for the Olympics, Hyncicova stands a good shot a competing in what would be her fourth NCAA Championship. She currently tied for second in the West region for NCAA seeding points in women's freestyle and is third in women's classic.

NCAA competitors will be announced on the evening of Feb. 26 at NCAA.com.

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