2011 Skiing Roster
Hartman, Katie
Katie Hartman
- Position:
- Alpine
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Breckenridge, Colo. (Summit/Team Summit)
Bio
• Top Career Slalom Finish: Second (2009 Seawolf Invitational)
• Top Career Giant Slalom Finish: First (Three Times, last 2012 RMISA Giant Slalom Qualifier No. 1)
Honors
• 2008 Second-Team All-RMISA
• 2009 First-Team All-RMISA
• 2009 Division I All-Academic Ski Team (3.5 GPA, Participation in Regoinals)
• 2010 First-Team All-American (Giant Slalom)
• 2010 Second-Team All-American (Slalom)
• 2010 First-Team All-RMISA
• 2011 Spencer Nelson All-Star Athlete of the Year (Colorado Ski Country USA honor)
• 2011 Buffalo Award of Distinction (Outstanding contributions to her team, peers and the athletic department)
• 2011 Division I National All-Academic Team (3.5 GPA; participation in Regionals)
• 2011 Second-Team Academic All-Big 12 At-Large (3.0 GPA)
• 2011 CU Athlete of the Week (Jan. 24-30; World University Games)
• 2012 Second-Team All-American Giant Slalom)
• 2012 Second-Team All-RMISA
• 2012 Division I National All-Academic Ski Team (3.5 GPA; participation in Regionals)
• 2012 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal Award (Given to a female senior student-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership)
• 2012 RMISA Skier of the Week (RMISA Qualifiers)
• 2012 CU Athlete of the Week (Jan. 2-8; CU Invitational)
• 2012 Nominated CUSPY Female Career Athletic Achievement
• 2012 Nominated NCAA Woman of the Year
• 2012 Nominated Spencer Nelson Colorado All-Star Athlete of the Year
Career at Colorado—Hartman came back for her fifth season in 2012 after being afforded a medical hardship in 2011 and capped one of the more impressive careers in CU history. In her time at CU, she raced in an astonishing 54 races and she finished 47 of those with 36 top 10 finishes and eight podium appearances and three race victories. She was a three-time All-American and four-time All-RMISA performer.
2012 (RS-Senior)—Hartman came back from a knee injury she suffered at World University games some 10 months earlier in record time, not missing any NCAA racing action. She participated in all 15 races on the season, finished 13 of them and she finished in the top 12 in all 13 of those races with 11 top 10 performances, two podium appearances and one race victory all while not quite being 100 percent. She opened the season with a bang and proved to the entire field she was back by winning the RMISA Giant Slalom Qualifier ahead of the University of Colorado Spencer Nelson Memorial Invitational to open the season. She then took another podium the next day by finishing third in the GS race as part of the CU Invitational and finished eighth in the slalom race at the CU invite the third day of racing in Eldora. With her podium appearance, she earned a belt buckle memorialized for Spencer Nelson, her former teammate, roommate and best friend who passed away ahead of the 2011 season and to whom she dedicated the season. She finished the Colorado portion of the 2012 season with two more top 10 finishes at the Denver Invitational before heading to Alaska for a pair of meets in which she had two top eight finishes in slalom action. She capped her career with some solid racing in Montana, first with a sixth place finish in a slalom qualifier and fourth in a giant slalom qualifier. Then at the RMISA Championships, she had a rare DNF in the giant slalom race and rebounded to finish eighth in the slalom race. At the NCAA Championships she had a Michael Jordan-like performance, finishing ninth in the giant slalom and missing another All-America nod by one spot (.04 of a second) with an 11th place finish in the slalom race despite skiing with severe flu-like symptoms. She did earn second-team All-America honors for the ninth place GS finish and was second-team All-RMISA. She earned RMISA Skier of the Week honors for the three qualifier races, and was both the CU Athlete of the Week and national skier of the week by CollegeSports360.com for her performance in the three races at the CU Invitational to open the season. Off the course, she was named to the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team, earned the Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal Award and was finalist for a bevy of other awards including the CUSPY for Female Career Athletic Achievement, the NCAA Woman of the Year and the Spencer Nelson Colorado All-Star Athlete of the Year.
2011 (Senior)—Hartman saw what was to be her final season cut short with a knee injury she suffered at World University Games. She fell in dangerous conditions in her second race at the competition in Turkey after winning the first race of the event, the Super G, for which she was named the CU Athlete of the Week. She skied hard prior to the start of the collegiate season and racked up two race victories, a second place and six total top 10 finishes in Nor-Am Cup and FIS races headed into the season. She won the Super G at the Nor-Am Cup in Panorama, British Columbia, where she also finished 10th in the slalom and seventh in the Super Combined. In two FIS Super G races in Winter Park, she won one and finished second in the other. Once the collegiate season hit, she injured her shoulder in the first race out of the gate at the Utah Invitational and was on the slopes less than a week later and at well less than 100-percent, she finished 10th and fourth in two Giant Slalom races at Montana State, the first an RMISA Qualifier race and second part of the Montana State Invitational. Colorado Ski Country USA named her the Spencer Nelson All-Star Athlete of the Year as the top skier in the state. The award was named after the 2010 winner, CU freshman Spencer Nelson, her roommate and one of her best friends who perished in a hiking accident prior to the 2011 season. She was also given the 2011 Buffalo Award of Distinction at CU’s annual CUSPY’s event, given to the student-athlete at CU who makes outstanding contributions to her team, her peers and the athletic department in general. In the classroom, she earned mention on the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team and was named second team on the inaugural Academic All-Big 12 At-Large team.
2010 (Junior)—Hartman saw action in all 14 possible races in 2010 and finished them all finishing in the top 10 a total of 10 times along with two more top 15 appearances having had to hike to finish twice. Of her 10 top 10 finishes, six were top five finishes with three podium appearances and one race victory. She had a stretch of three podium finishes in the final giant slalom races on the season, taking first in the giant slalom race at New Mexico for the second time in her career and then followed it up with a second place finish in the giant slalom at the Nevada Invitational. After having to hike at the RMISA Championships, she took third at the NCAA Championships earning a first-team All-America honor in the process. In slalom action, she took home five top 10 finishes in seven races with her best two performances coming at the Nevada Invitational, where she took home sixth place in the invitational and then a fifth place in the RMISA Qualifier race the next day. She took home seventh at NCAA Championships, earning a second-team All-America honor in the process. She was named the CU Athlete of the Week following the NCAA Championships and was named the RMISA Skier of the Week following the Nevada Invitational. On top of her two All-America honors, she was named first-team All-RMISA for the third straight season. At the conclusion of the 2010 season she was awarded the Buddy Werner Memorial Scholarship Award.
2009 (Sophomore)—Hartman was on pace to top her 2008 mark of seven top 10 finishes, but a couple of crashes in the giant slalom left her battling through some back injuries through the middle portion of the season. Despite a few set-backs, Hartman still shined as one of CU’s top female skiers, with six top-10 finishes, including a career-best second place mark in the slalom at the Seawolf Invitational, a mark that stands entering her senior campaign. For the second year in a row she was named to the All-RMISA first team and she entered her first NCAA Championships as the fifth-best women’s alpine skier in the west and was seeded fourth overall in the slalom. Coming off a strong RMISA Regional Championship showing, Hartman took 20th in the giant slalom at NCAAs and unfortunately ran into some troubles in the slalom and was unable to finish the second run. Hartman earned Division I National All-Academic honors at the conclusion of the season for maintaining a 3.50 or higher GPA.
2008 (Freshman)—After seeing action in eight races in her freshman year, Hartman recorded an impressive seven top 10 finishes, including her first career win at the New Mexico Invitational where she took first in the giant slalom. Equally dominant in both disciplines, Hartman recorded fifth place finishes in her first two races as a collegian at the Colorado Invitational. A week later in Utah, Hartman was on pace for another top 10 finish in the slalom, but she was forced to hike on the second run, causing her to record an uncharacteristic 26th place. Arguably CU’s second-best women’s alpine skier just as a freshman, Hartman was unable to compete in the RMISA Championships as she chose to represent the United States at the World Junior Championships in Formigal, Spain. A second-team All-RMISA selection, Hartman easily qualified for the NCAA Championships and could have been a podium contender, but with her being at the Junior Championships and missing so much school, head coach Richard Rokos felt that it would be too difficult for her to compete.
Club—Hartman was a member of Team Summit and was coached by former NCAA Champion and Colorado All-American skier, Sean Ramsden. Hartman participated as one of seven women on the U.S. squad at the 2007 FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships in Austria, followed by a ninth-place overall finish at the 2007 US Nationals. Hartman’s top finishes came at the 2005 Chevrolet J2 National Championships where she took first in both the women’s super-G and giant slalom events.
High School—Aside from being an accomplished skier, Hartman was also a four-year letterwinner in soccer at Summit High School. She was a three-time first team All-League selection and earned MVP honors as a senior.
Academics—Hartman graduated from CU in May 2012 with a degree in Psychology. She was three times a member of the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team, earned the Buffalo Award of Distinction by her fellow CU student-athletes and won the Tom Hansen Medal Award by the Pac-12 Conference.
Personal—Kathryn Marie Hartman was born September 2, 1988, and is the daughter of Dave and Liz Hartman of Breckenridge, Colo. She is the older sister of Megan, Brian, and Ellie. Hartman enjoys playing soccer, rock climbing, yoga and reading. She was also recruited by the University of Vermont and Denver, but chose Colorado because of the location, the town of Boulder, and the great coaching staff.
• Top Career Giant Slalom Finish: First (Three Times, last 2012 RMISA Giant Slalom Qualifier No. 1)
Honors
• 2008 Second-Team All-RMISA
• 2009 First-Team All-RMISA
• 2009 Division I All-Academic Ski Team (3.5 GPA, Participation in Regoinals)
• 2010 First-Team All-American (Giant Slalom)
• 2010 Second-Team All-American (Slalom)
• 2010 First-Team All-RMISA
• 2011 Spencer Nelson All-Star Athlete of the Year (Colorado Ski Country USA honor)
• 2011 Buffalo Award of Distinction (Outstanding contributions to her team, peers and the athletic department)
• 2011 Division I National All-Academic Team (3.5 GPA; participation in Regionals)
• 2011 Second-Team Academic All-Big 12 At-Large (3.0 GPA)
• 2011 CU Athlete of the Week (Jan. 24-30; World University Games)
• 2012 Second-Team All-American Giant Slalom)
• 2012 Second-Team All-RMISA
• 2012 Division I National All-Academic Ski Team (3.5 GPA; participation in Regionals)
• 2012 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal Award (Given to a female senior student-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership)
• 2012 RMISA Skier of the Week (RMISA Qualifiers)
• 2012 CU Athlete of the Week (Jan. 2-8; CU Invitational)
• 2012 Nominated CUSPY Female Career Athletic Achievement
• 2012 Nominated NCAA Woman of the Year
• 2012 Nominated Spencer Nelson Colorado All-Star Athlete of the Year
Career at Colorado—Hartman came back for her fifth season in 2012 after being afforded a medical hardship in 2011 and capped one of the more impressive careers in CU history. In her time at CU, she raced in an astonishing 54 races and she finished 47 of those with 36 top 10 finishes and eight podium appearances and three race victories. She was a three-time All-American and four-time All-RMISA performer.
2012 (RS-Senior)—Hartman came back from a knee injury she suffered at World University games some 10 months earlier in record time, not missing any NCAA racing action. She participated in all 15 races on the season, finished 13 of them and she finished in the top 12 in all 13 of those races with 11 top 10 performances, two podium appearances and one race victory all while not quite being 100 percent. She opened the season with a bang and proved to the entire field she was back by winning the RMISA Giant Slalom Qualifier ahead of the University of Colorado Spencer Nelson Memorial Invitational to open the season. She then took another podium the next day by finishing third in the GS race as part of the CU Invitational and finished eighth in the slalom race at the CU invite the third day of racing in Eldora. With her podium appearance, she earned a belt buckle memorialized for Spencer Nelson, her former teammate, roommate and best friend who passed away ahead of the 2011 season and to whom she dedicated the season. She finished the Colorado portion of the 2012 season with two more top 10 finishes at the Denver Invitational before heading to Alaska for a pair of meets in which she had two top eight finishes in slalom action. She capped her career with some solid racing in Montana, first with a sixth place finish in a slalom qualifier and fourth in a giant slalom qualifier. Then at the RMISA Championships, she had a rare DNF in the giant slalom race and rebounded to finish eighth in the slalom race. At the NCAA Championships she had a Michael Jordan-like performance, finishing ninth in the giant slalom and missing another All-America nod by one spot (.04 of a second) with an 11th place finish in the slalom race despite skiing with severe flu-like symptoms. She did earn second-team All-America honors for the ninth place GS finish and was second-team All-RMISA. She earned RMISA Skier of the Week honors for the three qualifier races, and was both the CU Athlete of the Week and national skier of the week by CollegeSports360.com for her performance in the three races at the CU Invitational to open the season. Off the course, she was named to the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team, earned the Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal Award and was finalist for a bevy of other awards including the CUSPY for Female Career Athletic Achievement, the NCAA Woman of the Year and the Spencer Nelson Colorado All-Star Athlete of the Year.
2011 (Senior)—Hartman saw what was to be her final season cut short with a knee injury she suffered at World University Games. She fell in dangerous conditions in her second race at the competition in Turkey after winning the first race of the event, the Super G, for which she was named the CU Athlete of the Week. She skied hard prior to the start of the collegiate season and racked up two race victories, a second place and six total top 10 finishes in Nor-Am Cup and FIS races headed into the season. She won the Super G at the Nor-Am Cup in Panorama, British Columbia, where she also finished 10th in the slalom and seventh in the Super Combined. In two FIS Super G races in Winter Park, she won one and finished second in the other. Once the collegiate season hit, she injured her shoulder in the first race out of the gate at the Utah Invitational and was on the slopes less than a week later and at well less than 100-percent, she finished 10th and fourth in two Giant Slalom races at Montana State, the first an RMISA Qualifier race and second part of the Montana State Invitational. Colorado Ski Country USA named her the Spencer Nelson All-Star Athlete of the Year as the top skier in the state. The award was named after the 2010 winner, CU freshman Spencer Nelson, her roommate and one of her best friends who perished in a hiking accident prior to the 2011 season. She was also given the 2011 Buffalo Award of Distinction at CU’s annual CUSPY’s event, given to the student-athlete at CU who makes outstanding contributions to her team, her peers and the athletic department in general. In the classroom, she earned mention on the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team and was named second team on the inaugural Academic All-Big 12 At-Large team.
2010 (Junior)—Hartman saw action in all 14 possible races in 2010 and finished them all finishing in the top 10 a total of 10 times along with two more top 15 appearances having had to hike to finish twice. Of her 10 top 10 finishes, six were top five finishes with three podium appearances and one race victory. She had a stretch of three podium finishes in the final giant slalom races on the season, taking first in the giant slalom race at New Mexico for the second time in her career and then followed it up with a second place finish in the giant slalom at the Nevada Invitational. After having to hike at the RMISA Championships, she took third at the NCAA Championships earning a first-team All-America honor in the process. In slalom action, she took home five top 10 finishes in seven races with her best two performances coming at the Nevada Invitational, where she took home sixth place in the invitational and then a fifth place in the RMISA Qualifier race the next day. She took home seventh at NCAA Championships, earning a second-team All-America honor in the process. She was named the CU Athlete of the Week following the NCAA Championships and was named the RMISA Skier of the Week following the Nevada Invitational. On top of her two All-America honors, she was named first-team All-RMISA for the third straight season. At the conclusion of the 2010 season she was awarded the Buddy Werner Memorial Scholarship Award.
2009 (Sophomore)—Hartman was on pace to top her 2008 mark of seven top 10 finishes, but a couple of crashes in the giant slalom left her battling through some back injuries through the middle portion of the season. Despite a few set-backs, Hartman still shined as one of CU’s top female skiers, with six top-10 finishes, including a career-best second place mark in the slalom at the Seawolf Invitational, a mark that stands entering her senior campaign. For the second year in a row she was named to the All-RMISA first team and she entered her first NCAA Championships as the fifth-best women’s alpine skier in the west and was seeded fourth overall in the slalom. Coming off a strong RMISA Regional Championship showing, Hartman took 20th in the giant slalom at NCAAs and unfortunately ran into some troubles in the slalom and was unable to finish the second run. Hartman earned Division I National All-Academic honors at the conclusion of the season for maintaining a 3.50 or higher GPA.
2008 (Freshman)—After seeing action in eight races in her freshman year, Hartman recorded an impressive seven top 10 finishes, including her first career win at the New Mexico Invitational where she took first in the giant slalom. Equally dominant in both disciplines, Hartman recorded fifth place finishes in her first two races as a collegian at the Colorado Invitational. A week later in Utah, Hartman was on pace for another top 10 finish in the slalom, but she was forced to hike on the second run, causing her to record an uncharacteristic 26th place. Arguably CU’s second-best women’s alpine skier just as a freshman, Hartman was unable to compete in the RMISA Championships as she chose to represent the United States at the World Junior Championships in Formigal, Spain. A second-team All-RMISA selection, Hartman easily qualified for the NCAA Championships and could have been a podium contender, but with her being at the Junior Championships and missing so much school, head coach Richard Rokos felt that it would be too difficult for her to compete.
Club—Hartman was a member of Team Summit and was coached by former NCAA Champion and Colorado All-American skier, Sean Ramsden. Hartman participated as one of seven women on the U.S. squad at the 2007 FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships in Austria, followed by a ninth-place overall finish at the 2007 US Nationals. Hartman’s top finishes came at the 2005 Chevrolet J2 National Championships where she took first in both the women’s super-G and giant slalom events.
High School—Aside from being an accomplished skier, Hartman was also a four-year letterwinner in soccer at Summit High School. She was a three-time first team All-League selection and earned MVP honors as a senior.
Academics—Hartman graduated from CU in May 2012 with a degree in Psychology. She was three times a member of the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team, earned the Buffalo Award of Distinction by her fellow CU student-athletes and won the Tom Hansen Medal Award by the Pac-12 Conference.
Personal—Kathryn Marie Hartman was born September 2, 1988, and is the daughter of Dave and Liz Hartman of Breckenridge, Colo. She is the older sister of Megan, Brian, and Ellie. Hartman enjoys playing soccer, rock climbing, yoga and reading. She was also recruited by the University of Vermont and Denver, but chose Colorado because of the location, the town of Boulder, and the great coaching staff.
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