2019 Skiing Roster
Nora Christensen
- Position:
- ALPINE
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Blommenholm, Norway
- High School:
- Doenski Videregaaende Skule/Europa Cup Team Norway
- Top Career Slalom Finish: First (twice in 2018)
- Top Career Giant Slalom Finish: Seventh (2019 Alaska Anchorage Invitational)
Honors
- Three-Time All-American
- Two-Time First-Team All-American (2016 Slalom; 2017 Slalom)
- Second-Team All-American (2018, Slalom)
- Two-Time All-RMISA
- First-Team All-RMISA (2018)
- Second-Team All-RMISA (2019)
- Four-Time National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019; 3.5 GPA or higher, participation in regionals)
- Four-Time Letterwinner (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
- CU Outstanding Alpine Woman Award (2017)
- CU Outstanding Career Achievement Award (2019)
- CU 4.0 Club (2018)
Career at Colorado—A three-time All-American slalom racer, she has started each of the 56 possible races she could have in her career and has finished 51 of those 56. She has 23 career top 10 finishes with 19 of those 23 coming in slalom. She has two race victories, both in slalom, 16 total top 5 finishes and 10 podium appearances in her career. She saved her best for last in terms of GS, recording her career best finish of seventh at the 2019 RMISA Championships, her second-to-last collegiate GS start.Â
2019 (Senior)—She began her senior season much as her career has gone, by being a dominant force in the slalom races. In her seven slalom races in 2019, she only finsihed outside the top 10 one time and was the RMISA yellow bib holder for the slalom races at New Mexico, where she finished second and third in the two slalom races as part of that meet. She pulled down two more top 10 finishes in Alaska, including eighth in the UAA Invitational and 10th in the RMISA Championships. In all she finished 13 of the 14 races in 2019 and has finished in the top 20 a total of 12 times in those 13 races. She saved her best for last in terms of GS, taking a career best seventh in the GS race at the RMISA Championships, her second-to-last career GS start.
2018 (Junior)—Earned second-team All-America honors in the slalom by finishing ninth at the NCAA Championships … She was a first-team All-RMISA selection … She tied for the most NCAA Qualification points in the slalom among all western region skiers, tying with teammate Tonje Trulsrud … She finished all 14 races on the season, the only alpine skier on the team that year, male or female, to do so … Had four podium finishes and two race victories, all in the slalom … Her slalom race victory at the Utah Invitational was CU’s first women’s slalom victory since 2015 … Recorded her best career giant slalom finish at the RMISA Championships when she placed eighth in the event.
2016 (Freshman)—She finished 12 of the 14 races on the season with 10 top 20 finishes and one top 10. Her top 10 race was actually a fifth place finish in the slalom race at the NCAA Championships, earning her first-team All-America honors … She was only skiing at the NCAA Championships as an injury replacement to senior Jessica Honkonen, who injured herself on the first day of training for the championships ... Top giant slalom finish was 13th in Park City at the Utah Invitational. In her seven slalom races, she finished five and was extremely consistent with two 11th and two 12th place finishes prior to breaking out with her fifth place finish at NCAAs ... On top of being a first-team All-American, she was also a member of the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team for maintaining above a 3.5 cumulative grade point average and competing at the RMISA Championships/NCAA West Regional.
Prior to CU—Christensen has skied for Norwegian Europa Cup Team for two seasons between 2012-15 and for Baerum Skiclub for her whole career … Christensen had been skiing in FIS races since 2010 and has finished 81 of 99 races prior to the start of her collegiate career with 95 top 10, 41 podium appearances and 14 victories ... Won her first FIS race in Norefjell, Norway, in 2012, and during the 2013 season, she won four races, all of them in slalom ... During the 2014 season she won two races, one in slalom and one in downhill … She had 44 European Cup starts under her belt with 30 finishes and 12 top 30 finishes ... In Europa Cup she has been finishing in top 30 in all six disciplines, once in slalom, once in giant slalom, once in Super-G, three times in downhill, two times in super combine and two times in alpine combine ... In 2014, she finished fifth in Europa Cup super-combined in Spital in Austria ... She has 13 National Championship races to her credit from Norway, finishing them all in top 10 and four in top five ... She also has eight races to her credit from National Junior Championships, with five podium appearances, and two victories ... In 2012, she won the Norwegian National Junior Championships in giant slalom in Howden and in 2014 she won Norwegian National Junior Championships in downhill in Hafjell.
High School—Christensen graduated from Doenski Videregaaende Skule in Rud, Norway in June 2015.
In the Classroom—Christensen is majoring in architectural engineering at Colorado … Has been named to the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team in 2016, 2017 and 2018, which is essentially an Academic All-America honor, for having a 3.5 GPA or high and competing in regionals.
Personal—Nora Grieg Christensen was born June 1, 1995, in Baerum, Norway ... On her free time she enjoys listening music on her sisters Spotify list.
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| 2016 | GS | SL |
| Utah Invitational | 13 | D2 |
| Montana State Invitational | 17 | 12 |
| Colorado Invitational | 24 | 12 |
| RMISA Qualifiers* | 17 | 18* |
| New Mexico Invitational | D1 | 11 |
| RMISA Championships | 16 | 11 |
| NCAA Championships | 21 | 5 |
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| 2017 | GS | SL |
| Montana State Invitational | 9 | 4 |
| Utah Invitational | 12 | 5 |
| RMISA Qualifiers | 9 | 4 |
| Seawolf Invitationals | 20 | 3 |
| Alaska Anchorage Invitational | DQ | D2 |
| RMISA Championships | 19 | 3 |
| NCAA Championships | 15 | 5 |
| 2018 | GS | SL |
| Montana State Invitational | 11 | 2 |
| Utah Invitational | 16 | 1 |
| New Mexico Invitational* | 3 (SL) | 1 |
| Denver Invitational | 15 | 6 |
| RMISA Qualifiers* | 14 | 14 |
| RMISA Championships | 8 | 4 |
| NCAA Championships | 18 | 9 |
