2021 Skiing Roster
Andrea Arnold
- Position:
- ALPINE
- Height:
- 5-4
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Boulder, Colo.
- High School:
- Middle Park
- Prev School:
- Winter Park Competition Center
- Top Career Slalom Finish: Sixth (2021 Denver Invitational)
- Top Career Giant Slalom Finish: Eighth (2019 RMISA Championships)
- National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team (2017, 3.5 GPA, Participation in Regionals)
- Laura Sharpe Flood Award (2021)
- Career Athletic Achievement Award (2021)
- SAAC Distinguished Service Award (2021)
- CU Academic Student-Athlete of the Month (Nov. 2019)
- Three-Time Letterwinner (2019, 2020, 2021)
Career—Arnold was afforded an extra season of eligibility for 2021 due to missing the majority of the 2018 season, and could have come back for the 2022 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but she chose to enroll in medical school. In her career she was a three-time letterwinner, skiing in 48 of a possible 58 races, finishing 37 with 31 of those finishes in the top 20 and nine in the top 10. Six of her nine top 10’s and 18 of her 31 top 20’s came in GS races. She earned the team’s Career Athletic Achievement Award and the Distinguished Service Award from CU’s Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) following her senior season.
2021 (Senior)—Arnold started all 10 races leading up to the NCAA Championships in her senior season, finishing seven, all in the top 10 with three top 10 performances, all coming in GS. She began the season in style, taking a pair of top 10 GS finishes in Aspen at the Denver Invitational, including her career best finish of sixth in the second race there. She then had two solid slalom finishes at the Spencer James Nelson Memorial Invitational, CU’s home meet, at Eldora two days later, taking 13th and 12th in the two races. She didn’t finish lower than 17th and had another top 10, taking 10th in a GS race at Park City as part of the RMISA Invitational at Utah in mid February. She ended her season and career with a 17th place finish in the GS at the RMISA Championships and did not finish the slalom race there. She earned her third career letter and third in a row, scoring for the team in four of her seven finishes and picking up 87 points in those four races. On top of picking up the team’s Career Athletic Achievement Award and the Distinguished Service Award from SAAC, she was awarded the team’s Laura Sharpe Flood Award for overcoming adversity with smiles and enthusiasm.
2020 (Junior)—Arnold finished 10 of 12 races in 2020 with nine of those 10 races coming in the top 20 and six in the top 15. She finished all six slalom races, five in the top 20. Her two top 10 finishes were both in slalom as she took ninth in the slalom for the DU Invitational in Aspen and 10th for the CU Invitational slalom at Eldora. Her top GS runs were the first two of the season, 15th at the DU meet and 14th at the CU meet. At both the CU and DU meets, she finished as one of the top three skiers from CU, scoring in all four races for the team. She was CU’s second-best finisher four times and third-best twice, earning her second career letter award. She also earned CU’s Academic Student-Athlete of the Month in November just prior to the start of the season.
2019 (RS Sophomore)—Coming back from a back injury that cost her most of her sophomore season, Arnold wasted little time in showing solid improvement in 2019. Her improvement was evident throughout the season as she culminated her junior season by finishing her career best in both slalom and GS at the RMISA Championships She finished eighth in the GS and 10th in the slalom at the RMISA Championships, her first career top 10 in slalom. She opened the season with a 15th place finish in the RMISA Alpine Qualifier #1 at Eldora, marking her career best finish in GS, and then bettered that with a pair of 10th place finishes, her first two career top 10s, in GS races in Montana, one as part of the MSU Invitational and one as another RMISA Alpine Qualifier. She finished 11 of 12 races and 10 of those 11 were in the top 20 with four in the top 10. She was the Buffs top alternate for NCAA Championship qualification and the fourth alternate out of the RMISA.
2018 (Sophomore)—She appeared in three races before a back injury cost her the rest of the season; she was injured after the first run of the slalom race in the Montana State Invitational to open the season … In her two completed races, she finished 25th in the RMISA Alpine Qualifier giant slalom race, the first race of the season, and then finished 16th in the GS at the MSU Invite before being injured.
2017 (Freshman)—In her freshman season she finished seven of the 10 races she started, including both the GS and slalom races at the RMISA Championships. Her 19th place finish at Beaver Creek in the RMISA Championships was her best slalom finish of the season. Her top GS finish was in 16th place, which she recorded twice in the first two meets of the season at Utah and Montana State. She was named to the 2017 National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team, which requires a cumulative 3.5 grade point average and competing at the NCAA Regional Championships. After the end of the collegiate season she won a FIS race at the Western Region Open held at Sun Valley Resort. She took first in the GS on March 26, one day after placing second in another GS race.
Prior to CU—She has been a member of the Winter Park Competition Center since 2004 and has also been a member of the Czech Ski Team since 2015, competing in the Junior World Championships and the Youth Olympic Games. In April of 2016 she finished third in the Super G at Whistler. She was the Colorado Ski Cup winner in both 2013-14 and 2014-15 in the slalom and giant slalom and from 2015-16 she had five first place finishes (three in giant slalom and two in the slalom), along with three second place finishes (two Super G and one slalom) in the Colorado Ski Cup. At the 2015 Junior World Championships in the under 18 category she finished fourth in both the Super G and Alpine Combined. In the 2016 Youth Olympic Games she finished 18th in the Super G.
High School—Arnold graduated from Middle Park High School in Granby, Colo. in June of 2016. She was a member of the honor roll in high school.
In the Classroom—Arnold graduated with a degree in Integrative Physiology at Colorado while also minored in Spanish.
Personal—Andrea Arnold was born on Aug. 4, 1998 in Boulder, Colo. She is the only child of Ivana and Landis Arnold. Her father is a marketing manager and mother is a ski coach. Her hobbies include camping, traveling and riding horses. She is trilingual - fluent in Czech, English and Spanish - Czech was her first language as she is a dual citizen (Czech and American). After college, she would like to become a physician’s assistant and one of the reasons she chose to attend the University of Colorado was because of its integrative physiology program in addition to the skiing program and being close to home.
