Magnus Boee

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Sondre Bollum, Magnus Boee and Andrew Potyk

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Position:
NORDIC
Height:
5-11
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Oslo, Norway
High School:
Norges Toppidrettsgymnas Geilo
Prev School:
South Korean National Team

Olympian (2018)
World University Games (2023 Lake Placid)
National Skier of the Year (2021 Men’s Nordic)
Three-Time Individual National Champion (2021 Classic, 2021 Freestyle, 2024 Classic)
Eight-Time All-American
Five-Time First-Team All-American (2021 CL, 2021 FS; 2022 CL, 2023 CL, 2024 CL)
Three-Time Second-Team All-American (2020 FS, 2023 FS, 2024 FS)
National All-Academic Ski Team (2020; 3.5 GPA, Participation In Regionals)
Two-Time RMISA MVP (2021 Classic, 2021 Freestyle)
Two-Time RMISA Individual Champion (2021 Classic, 2021 Freestyle)
Five-Time All-RMISA (2020, ‘21, ‘22, ‘23, '24)
Four-Time First-Team All-RMISA (2020, ‘21, ‘22, '24)
Second-Team All-RMISA (2023)
Four-Time RMISA Skier of the Week (2020 RMISA Qualifiers, 2021 RMISA Invite #1; 2022 RMISA Invite; 2024 CU Invitational))
Three-Time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021, ‘22, ‘23)
Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame Collegiate Skier of the Year (2021)
CU Male Athlete of the Year (Winner 2021, Finalist 2023, Finalist 2024 CUSPYs)
CU Career Athletic Achievement (Winner 2024, CUSPYs)
12-Time CU Athlete of the Week (Jan. 27, 2020; Feb. 10, 2020; Jan. 25, 2021; Feb. 8, 2021; March 1, 2021; March 15, 2021; Jan 2, 2022; Jan. 9, 2022; Feb. 22, 2022; Jan. 8, 2023; Feb. 5, 2023; March 11, 2024)
CU Academic Student-Athlete of the Month (April 2020)
Tom Hansen Conference Medal (Pac-12, 2024)
Dick Schoenberger Memorial Award (2024)
Three-Time Buddy Werner Award (2021, ‘22, ‘23)
Five-Time Letterwinner (2020, ‘21, ‘22, ‘23, '24)
Five-Time NCAA Qualifier (2020, ‘21, ‘22, ‘23, '24)

At Colorado: Career—Boee had one of the most dominant careers in CU history, and thus NCAA history, and perhaps one of the best storybook endings in collegiate ski history, as well. After not winning a race in his first 10 tries in his fifth and final season, he won the 20K classic race at the NCAA Championships, his third individual NCAA Championship, but more importantly put the finishing touches on the team title during which the Buffs came back from the second-largest final-day deficit in NCAA history to win by the smallest margin under the current scoring system. Boee finished his career with 58 starts in Nordic racing, finishing outside of the top 20 just one time (in a race he easily could have quit and earned a DNF), and he had an astounding 50 top 10 finishes and 40 top 5 finishes that included 30 podium appearances and 16 race wins. His 16 race wins ranks tied for fourth all-time, third most among men’s skiers and second most among men’s Nordic skiers. His 10 wins as a sophomore rank tied for third all-time, is just the fourth time a CU skier has won 10-plus races in a season, and tied for the most wins by a men’s skier, behind only Dave Butts in 1960 when skiers skied both disciplines. His 83.3 win percentage that season is the most by a men’s skier and second all-time at CU. He is just the sixth skier to hit the podium 30 times in a career, the third men’s skier and second men’s Nordic skier. His 40 top 5 finishes ranks second all-time at CU and is the most in 65 seasons and the most within any one discipline at CU. He has the most top 5 finishes among any skier in any discipline in both genders, and his 23 classic top five finishes is also the most among any gender and discipline in CU history. His 50 top 10 performances ranks third at CU and again the most in over 60 years, the most of any skier in any discipline or gender by four such finishes.

2024 (Graduate)—Boee made the most of his extra season of eligibility due to the COVID-19 pandemic and put together one of the best storybook endings to a career in CU history. After a simply dominant career, Boee was putting together another solid season in 2024, but for the first time in his career, he had not won a race throughout the regular season. He not only continued that streak to become the first CU skier to win a race in five different seasons, he won the most important race of the season, the 20K classic race, the final race of the season, at the NCAA Championships. Boee’s win enabled the Buffs to pull off the second-largest final day deficit in NCAA history and win the team championship by two points. If he had even finished in second place, the Buffs would not have won the championship. On the season, he finished all 11 races he competed in and in the top 10 in nine of those 11 races with seven top five finishes including four podiums and that all-important race win. He was especially dominant in classic races, finishing outside the top 10 just once while battling illness, and finishing with three podiums and his win in the discipline. He opened the season with a five-race stretch in Utah that included the Westminster Invitational, with results pulled from the US National Championships, a qualifier race and the Utah Invitational. He finished with three top six finishes at those three races from the US National Championships. In February, he opened strong by taking fourth and second in two races at the Colorado Invitational and then didn’t ski in the Denver Invitational the following week. At the RMISA Championships, he took second in the freestyle race, his best finish of the season, and fourth in the 20K classic race before picking up two more All-America honors at the NCAA Championships with a sixth-place finish in the freestyle race and the win in his final collegiate race. On top of picking up his third individual NCAA Championship and two All-America honors, one first team, he was also named first-team All-RMISA and given the CUSPY for Male Career Athletic Achievement. He also was named the team’s Dick Schoenberger Memorial Award winner, the team’s Outstanding Career Award and the prestigious Tom Hansen Conference Medal, the top honor in the Pac-12 Conference.

2023 (Senior)—Boee continued his assault on the CU record book with another fantastic season in 2023, during which he finished all 12 races in the top 20 with eight top 10 and five top-five finishes which included three podium appearances and one race win. He won a race for the fourth straight season and had at least three podium appearances for the fourth straight season, as well. Early in the season, he got that victory, in the classic sprint race at the US National Championships, not only winning among college skiers, but among all skiers in the race. He continued his dominance with a third and fourth-place finish at the CU Invitational, taking third in the 20K classic race and fourth in the 10K freestyle there. A little up and down from there, he had two solid races in Alaska with a third place in the freestyle sprint race and then finished the season with two All-America honors, the second time he’s accomplished that feat, finishing 10th in the 10K freestyle race and fifth in the 20K classic race to pick up his fourth career first-team honor. He also skied well at the World University Games, becoming the first skier in CU history to medal three times at the games in January in Lake Placid. He was named second-team All-RMISA and was a finalist for CU Athlete of the Year. He won the team’s Buddy Werner Award and lettered for the fourth time while also earning Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll mention for also getting it done in the classroom.

2022 (Junior)—Boee remained one of the top skiers in the nation, even if he didn’t win as many races as he did his sophomore season. He had just one finish outside the top seven in his third season on the college circuit and ended the year finishing all 12 possible races with 11 top 10, nine top-five and seven podium appearances with one race win. He looked to be getting stronger as the season wore on, finishing second in both races at the RMISA Championships and then hitting the podium in third at the NCAA Championships in the classic race. He struggled the final day, as did the entire team, finishing 17th in the freestyle race, his only finish outside the top seven. His race win was in the classic sprint race at the U.S. National Championships. He earned first-team All-America honors for his classic race at the NCAA Championships, was the RMISA Skier of the Meet for the RMISA Invitational, named CU Athlete of the Week three times and earned the team’s Buddy Werner Award for the second straight season. He lettered and qualified for the NCAA Championships for the third time each. He was also named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll for his work in the classroom.

2021 (Sophomore)—Boee, simply put, had the best men’s Nordic season in CU history. He won 10 of 12 races with 11 podium appearances. His 10 wins matched the CU record for men’s skiers set by Dave Butts in 1960 and is two better than Mads Stroem’s record of eight wins in a men’s Nordic season. He won five races in each classic and freestyle races, setting new men’s records in each discipline. He swept the races at both the RMISA and NCAA Championships, as well as at the Denver and CU Invitationals. He opened the season with five straight wins, the most since Stroem won six straight in 2016, and he finished the season with four straight wins. He was named the National Skier of the Year, earned both RMISA Men’s Freestyle and Men’s Classic MVP honors and was the top seed out of the RMISA for both disciplines, earning first-team All-RMISA honors for the second-straight season. He was CU’s Male Athlete of the Year and took home the Ski Team’s Buddy Werner Award while winning CU Athlete of the Week four times. He was a member of the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll and was named the CU Academic Student-Athlete of the Month in April 2020. He was also named the Collegiate Skier of the Year by the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame.

2020 (Freshman)—Boee immediately established himself as one of the nation’s top skiers in his first season, finishing the season as an All-American and first-team All-RMISA performer. He finished second in the RMISA MVP race and was the No. 2 qualifier for the NCAA Championships out of the RMISA, and he was the top seeded skier in classic races from the league for the Championship. He competed in all 11 races with 10 top 10 and seven top five finishes including five podium appearances and three race wins. He became the 10th men’s Nordic skier to win three or more races in a season and produced the 17th season among those 10 skiers of winning three or more races, including just the second freshman to accomplish the feat behind Rune Oedegaard’s five wins in 2012. He was the Buffs top finisher in seven races and second in two others, easily earning his first letter. His best race was perhaps the 10K Classic race at the DU Invitational, which he won by over a minute, believed to be the largest margin of victory in a 10K race in recent memory. That performance propelled him to the freestyle win and meet sweep, which for the DU Invitational was a pursuit race, so he had over a minute’s head start and held on for the win. His other win was the Owl Creek Chase, a 21K classic race from Aspen to Snowmass now over 50 years old. He won that race by 48.1 seconds. He opened the season by finishing fifth in the freestyle race at Steamboat Springs and followed that up with a second place finish in the classic race. After winning both races at Maloit Park for the DU Invitational, he took second in the freestyle race in Aspen ahead of the Owl Creek Chase, which by winning the next day gave him three wins in the span of four races. He then hit some bad luck at Soldier Hollow and finished 30th in the freestyle race. Suffering from illness, once he knew he wasn’t going to be in the mix, he slowed up and saved energy for the next day, which paid off in his eighth place finish the next day in the classic race. At the RMISA Championships he was getting back into shape as ht took 10th in the freestyle and fifth in the classic race. He seemed to be back for the NCAA Championships where he finished eighth in the freestyle race, earning a second-team All-America nod. He was one of the favorites for the classic race, but the NCAA cancelled the championship shortly after the conclusion of the freestyle race due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He was also named to the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team for the first time for maintaining above a 3.5 GPA and participating in Regionals, and was honored by CU's Herbest Academic Staff as the CU Student-Athlete of the Month for April 2020.

Club—A 2018 Winter Olympian for Korea, he has skied for Fossum IF in Baerum, Norway, since 2011 for Nordic skiing and for Try IL for biathlon since 2013 … His top cross country results include two golds and two silvers from an unofficial National Championship in 2013 and 2014, a win in the freestyle sprint race at the Norwegian Championships in 2015 and a third place in the NorgesCup Junior level in 2018-19 … He has 143 starts in FIS-sanctioned races with 128 finishes, including 49 top 20, 37 top 10 and 22 top five finishes with 17 podium appearances and eight race victories … He participated in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, earning a 45th place finish in the 15K freestyle and 47th place in the 50K classic races … He has 24 World Cup starts to his credit since 2014 with his best finish coming in Drammen, Norway, in 2018, taking 19th in the classic sprint final … He took part in the 2016 and 2018 World Junior Championships, earning three top five finishes in Rasnov, Romania, taking fifth in the 15K freestyle and second in both the 10K classic and 1.3K freestyle sprint final earning two silver medals … He has 15 starts in National Championship races in both Norway and Korea, with his best finish a 32nd in the 10K classic race at Alta, Norway, in 2018 … He also has six Scandinavian Cup race starts to his credit, earning 23rd in the 1.7K freestyle sprint race at Madona, Latvia, in 2019 … He hit the podium three times in the Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer in 2016 with two golds and a silver … At the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo in 2017, he had three podiums with one gold, one silver and one bronze in Japan.

High School—He graduated from Norges Toppidrettsgymnas in Geilo, Norway, in 2017 … He won the individual Norwegian Championship in the freestyle sprint in 2015 and was first overall in the NorgesCup Junior biathlon for the 2014-15 season.

In the Classroom—He graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering at Colorado in 2023 and earned a Master's Degree in 2024. He was named to the National All-Academic Ski Team in 2020 and has been mentioned on the Pac-12 Academic Honor roll twice in 2021 and ‘22.
Personal—Magnus Boee was born July 21, 1998, in Busan, South Korea … His parents are Age Boee and Kim Ju Hyeon … He has dual citizenship in Korea and Norway … He has one brother, Young Woo Park, and a sister, Marie Boee … He wants to study International Affairs because he finds differences in societies and cultures interesting due to his multicultural background … He enjoys watching quality movies, visiting art galleries, making art and all kinds of sports … He is trilingual and fluent in Norwegian, Korean and English … He has volunteered at various sports clubs.

Why CU—” Because it’s a place that will suit my sporting and training desires, is a really good school, an open-minded community and has good weather and climate."