Thea Grosvold

Position:
Alpine
Height:
5-6
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Oslo, Norway
High School:
Doenski Videregaende Skole

Top Career Slalom Finish: First (2015 Utah Invitational)
Top Career Giant Slalom Finish: Eighth (2013 Utah Invitational)

Awards and Honors

2013 Second-Team All-American (Giant Slalom)
2014 & 2015 Second-Team All-American (Slalom)
2013 RMISA Alpine MVP
4x (2013-16) Division I National All-Academic Team selection (3.5 GPA, Participation In RMISA Championships)
2013 CU Sophomore Scholar-Athlete Award (top GPA among all sophomore CU student-athletes)
2014 4.0 Club

Career at Colorado—Grosvold was a three-time All-American for the Buffaloes and a four-time Division I National All-Academic Ski Team member. In 56 career races, she has finished 55 of them with 25 top 10 finishes. She excelled in slalom races, finishing her career with 22 top 10 finishes in 28 career slalom races. She also had five top 10 finishes in the giant slalom.

2016 (Senior)— Was named to the Division I National All-Academic Ski team for a fourth time in her career, which requires a minimum GPA of 3.50 and regional participation. She was the only Buffalo alpine skier to finish all 14 races on the season and raced at the NCAA Championships for the fourth time in her distinguished career. She finished in sixth place at the RMISA Championships in the slalom, one of two top 10 finishes she posted on the season (the second being an eighth-place showing at the Utah Invitational). In the giant slalom she finished in 16^th place at the NCAA Championships. Her top finish on the season in the giant slalom came at the Colorado Invitational where she placed 14^th.

2015 (Junior)—For a third-straight season she garnered second-team All-America accolades after her sixth-place finish in the slalom at the NCAA Championships. Earned first-team All-RMISA honors, finishing fifth in the slalom at the RMISA Championships. She was also named to the Division I National All-Academic Ski team again for her success in the classroom. She finished 13-of-14 races on the season and had eight top 10 finishes. She twice was named the CU Athlete of the Week in 2015, the first time coming after the Utah Invitational when she won the slalom race – her first career victory. In the slalom she finished the season with four finishes in the top five. In the giant slalom, her top finish was ninth at the Utah Invitational and she also placed 11^th in the race at the NCAA Championships. She entered the college racing season on a tear as she compiled five top 5 finishes prior to the start of the college circuit. At the CU Jimmie Heuga Invitational at Echo Mountain, she won a slalom race and finished third in the other, bettering that performance at Steamboat Springs with a win and runner-up performance in a pair of slalom races. She also finished fifth in a GS race at Copper Mountain.

2014 (Sophomore)—As a third-year sophomore, Groslvold was just as steady as she was in 2013, finishing all 14 races for the second straight season, the only CU women’s alpine skier to accomplish that feat again in 2014. She finished in the top 10 in all seven slalom races, earning second-team All-America honors for her ninth place finish at the NCAA Championships. A model of consistency, she finished between seventh and ninth in all seven slalom races. She also compiled a pair of top 10 finishes in giant slalom action, taking 10th both at Utah and Montana State to open the season. She also earned mention on the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team and was a member of the Buffs 4.0 Club. Prior to the collegiate season, she competed for her home country of Norway at the World University Games in Italy, finishing 19th in the slalom race there. After the collegiate season in four races in Vail, she had one podium with a third place slalom finish, and took home fourth in the other slalom race, and finished sixth and seventh in two GS races, as well.

2013 (Redshirt Freshman)—After sitting out a year and training with the team in 2012, Grosvold became the rock of the women’s alpine team as a redshirt freshman, becoming the only CU women’s alpine skier to finish every race she entered. En route to being named the RMISA Alpine MVP based on her consistent results, she finished all 14 of her races including the NCAA Championships, where she helped the Buffs to the team national championship while earning second-team All-America honors on the strength of a 10th place finish in the giant slalom race. She finished in the top 12 in 10 of the 14 races and was outside the top 20 just twice. She had seven top 10 finishes, five in slalom and two in giant slalom action. She was at her best in the middle of the season, finishing in the top eight of four consecutive races spanning the Utah and New Mexico Invitationals. At Utah, she had her career best finishes in both disciplines after finishing eighth in the GS race and sixth in the slalom while she finished seventh in both slalom races at New Mexico in the final regular season meet. At the RMISA Championships she finished ninth in the slalom race and 14th in the giant slalom. Her second best GS finish came at the NCAA Championships when she took 10th. On top of her second-team All-America honor, she earned mention on the Division I National All-Academic team for attaining a 3.5 grade point average and participating at the RMISA Championships. After the collegiate season, she had an impressive string of results in FIS races, compiling two podium appearances, one each in GS and slalom action, and seven top 10 finishes in seven races at Mammoth Mountain, Calif., and Vail.

2012 (Freshman)—Grosvold did not see action in 2012, recovering from a knee injury she suffered in December 2010. She was able to train with the team all year and learned from the talented senior class of Jenny Allen, Erika Ghent, Katie Hartman and Carolina Nordh.

Club—Grosvold participated in several club ski teams in Norway since 2005. From 2005-10, she was a member of the Ready Ski Club before moving to the Heming IL team in 2011. She was a member of the Norwegian Junior National Team from 2005-07 and Norwegian European Cup Team from 2007-10. She has skied in 282 FIS races before injuring herself and finished 258 of them. She compiled 29 race victories, 51 podium appearances, 85 top five and 114 top 10 finishes throughout her skiing career. She has skied in one World Cup race, 56 European Cup races, 20 Junior World Championship Ski Cup races, 25 National Championship races in Norway, Sweden and Austria and 15 Junior National Championship races in Norway. She did not finish the World Cup race, and in the 56 European Cup races, she had seven top 20 finishes with her best being 13th, which she accomplished in 2007 in Nuess-Bottrop, Germany, in an Indoor race, and in 2010 in Kvitfjell, Germany, in a Super Combined race. In her 20 Junior World Championship races, she had eight top 20 finishes with one top 10, an eighth place in the combined at the 2008 even in Formigal, Spain. She has won for National Championship races, all in Norway, the Super G race in Bjorli in 2007, the downhill in both 2008 (Hafjell) and 2009 (oppdal) and the slalom race in 2010 at Narvik. She also had 11 podium appearances and 19 top 10 finishes in those 25 national championship races. In her 15 Junior National Championship races, she has two wins, in the slalom in Hovden in 2009 and in the giant slalom in Geilo in 2010. She also has seven podium appearances, nine top 5 and 12 top 10 finishes in those 15 races.

High School—Grosvold graduated from Doenski Videregaende Skole in Baerum, Norway, in 2009.

In the Classroom—Grosvold is majoring in Business Accounting at Colorado.

Personal—Thea Grosvold was born January 31, 1990, in Oslo, Norway, to Torbjoern Krogdahl and Anne Grosvold. Her brother, Torjus Krogdahl, was a four-time All-American for the Utah ski team. She lists Mexican food and any kind of chicken as her favorite food.