Ian Mallams

Position:
Nordic
Height:
6-2
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Whitefish, Mont. (Whitefish/Glacier Nordic Ski Team)

• Top Career Classical Finish: Fourth (2011 RMISA Championships)
• Top Career Freestyle Finish: Seventh (2010 RMISA Championships)

Honors

• 2010 Division I National All-Academic Ski Team (3.5 GPA, Participation in RMISA Championships)
• 2011 Division I National All-Academic Ski Team (3.5 GPA, Participation in RMISA Championships)
• 2011 First-Team Academic All-Big 12 At-Large (3.2 GPA)
• 2012 Division I National All-Academic Ski Team (3.5 GPA, Participation in RMISA Championships)
• 2012 CU 4.0 Club
• 2013 CU Buffalo Award of Distinction (CUSPY)
• 2013 Division I National All-Academic Ski team (3.5 GPA, Participation in RMISA Championships)
• 2013 CU Male Senior Scholar-Athlete Award (top GPA among all senior male student-athletes)

Career at Colorado—Mallams closed out his career having an impressive five year career on what proved to be the deepest men’s Nordic squad nationally in four of those five seasons. He finished his career having raced 37 times with 29 top 20 and seven top 10 finishes and each season without fail he saved his best for the last part of the year.

2013 (Senior)—Mallams raced in nine of 10 races leading up to the NCAA Championships and finished with seven top 20 finishes in his senior campaign. As he did throughout his career, he saved his best for last and just one race removed from missing a race due to illness, he closed his career out with the best classical race of the season, finishing 11th at the RMISA Championships. He also finished 17th in the freestyle race, the second best finish in that discipline on the season. His best freestyle finish came at New Mexico where he took 14th after finishing 13th in the classical race. One of the top students on the CU-Boulder campus, he earned the Male Senior Scholar-Athlete Award, given to the senior male student-athlete with the highest GPA across all sports. He was also named to the Division I National All-Academic team for the fourth straight year and won the prestigious CU Buffalo Award of Distinction at the annual CUSPY Awards.

2012 (Junior)—Mallams spent the fall semester ahead of the season on a semester abroad and was not able to train with the team. He missed the first meet of the season and then after finishing 28th in his first race back, the classical race at the Denver Invitational, he steadily improved the rest of the season slowly improving each race. He finished 17th in the classical race at DU, then in Alaska at two meets, he finished fifth and 16th in classical races and 10th and 13th in freestyle races. He was sick prior to the RMISA Championships and finished 19th in the freestyle race and 21st in the classical race. He qualified for NCAA Championships but did not participate; he did however serve as a student coach for the Nordic squad at the championships. He earned mention on CU’s 4.0 Club and for the third straight season was named to the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team.

2011 (Sophomore)—Mallams competed in all 10 races leading into the NCAA Championships and finished the season with eight top 20 and three top five finishes, steadily improving as the season wore on. He had his only two finishes outside the top 20 in the first two races of the season and then turned on the jets, especially in the freestyle races, taking home three top 11 finishes in the remaining for races and taking home top 12 finishes in two of the final four classical races. His best performance was a fourth place finish in the classical race at the RMISA Championships. That fourth place was his best career classical finish by eight spots and he just missed the podium. He was CU’s top finisher that day and helped the Buffs maintain the lead and secure the regional championship as a team. In the classroom, he was for the second time named to the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team for maintaining above a 3.5 grade point average. He finished 20th in the RMISA on the NCAA Qualification list, fifth among CU skiers (one point behind teammate Patrick Neel) as the two were the second and third alternates in the west, both qualifying for the championships.

2010 (R-Fr.)—Mallams skied in 10 races as a redshirt freshman on the men’s Nordic squad and finished with seven top 20 and two top 10 performances. He made marked improvement as the season wore on and proved to be a top 10 skier in freestyle races by season’s end, finishing eighth in the freestyle race at the Nevada Invitational and seventh at the RMISA Championships, qualifying as an alternate for NCAA Championships. The first two races of the season, he proved to be stronger in the classical races and after the Buffs returned from New Mexico, where coach Bruce Cranmer emphasizes as the second half of the season, he had his four best races, first finishing 18th in classical and eighth in freestyle at the Nevada Invitational and following those performances with 15th and seventh place finishes, respectively, at the RMISA Championships.

2009 (Fr.)—Mallams chose to redshirt his first season at Colorado.

Other—Mallams skied for the U.S. Scandinavian Cup Team in 2007 and raced to a top 20 finish in the classic sprint in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden. His career best finish came in 2006 when he took sixth in the 15K classic race at Junior Nationals in Houghton, Mich. Mallams also took eighth in the skate at the 2007 Junior Nationals, as well as 15th in the 15K classic at the ’07 Supertour in West Yellowstone, Mont.

High School—Mallams lettered four years in cross country and three years in track at Whitefish High School in Whitefish, Mont. He was a three-time cross country MVP selection and helped his track team to a state championship in 2006 where he took fourth place as an individual. His 2007 third place finish in the 1600m in 4:26 is still a school record at Whitefish.

In the Classroom—A two-time academic all-state selection in high school, Mallams is pursuing degrees in environmental studies and geography at Colorado. He has been named to the Division I National All-Academic team four times and earned mention on the CU 4.0 Club as a junior.

Personal—Ian Mallams was born on Aug. 28, 1989 and is the son of Russell and Debbie Mallams of Whitefish, Mont. His father, Russell, was an Olympic track cyclist in 1980 at the Summer Games held in Moscow. Mallams was recruited by Bates, Whitman and Montana State, but chose Colorado because of the campus and the ski program. Other than skiing, he enjoys running, biking and mountaineering.