Olivia Gerrard

Position:
ALPINE
Height:
5-6
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Westport, Ct.
High School:
Burke Mountain Academy
Prev School:
Burke Ski Club/Ski & Snowboard Club Vail

Top Career GS Finish: 19th (2019 UAA Invitational)
Top Career Slalom Finish: 12th (2019 New Mexico Invitational)

Honors

Three-Time National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team (2019, 2020, 2021; 3.5 GPA, Participation In Regionals)
Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2021)

Career—Gerrard skied in 30 of a possible 34 races in her three seasons at CU, finishing 17 of those 30 races with nine top 20 performances, six of which came in slalom. She had started all 24 possible races in her first two seasons.

At Colorado: 2021 (Junior)—Gerrard did not race for the Buffs to open the 2021 season in Aspen for the DU Invitational and Eldora for the CU Invitational. She returned for the Utah series that included the final two regular season meets and the RMISA Championships, finishing three of six races with a best of 20th in a slalom race at Snowbird while she finished 23rd and 26th in the GS and slalom race, respectively, at the RMISA Championships. After missing the first four races and picking up three DNF’s in her first four races back, she did rebound to finish both races at the RMISA Championships. She picked up her third National All-Academic Ski Team honor and was named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll.

2020 (Sophomore)—Gerrard started all 12 races in 2020 and finished seven with three top 20 performances. She opened the season taking 21st and 19th in two GS races in Aspen, the second as part of the DU Invitational. She then hit some bad luck in Eldora, finishing just one of three races, neither as part of the CU Invitational, taking 21st in the slalom qualifier races. In Utah, she took 28th in the GS and 20th in the slalom race as part of the Utah Invitational before not finishing the qualifier race there, and in Bozeman, she took 18th in the GS qualifier and 21st in the GS as part of RMISA Championships before not finishing the slalom race. She was also named to the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team for the second straight season.

2019 (Freshman)—Gerrard started all 12 races in 2019 leading into the NCAA Championships and finished seven of them. She finished six of her last eight races, a giant slalom race and slalom race both at Bridger Bowl in Montana while finishing one of two slalom races at the New Mexico Invitational and three of four in Alaska to end the regular season and the RMISA Championships. She had her best GS finish in Alaska, her first top 20 taking 19th at the RMISA Championships. She also had two top 20 slalom finishes in Alaska, giving her three on the season after finishing 12th at New Mexico in one of the two slalom races there. She was also named to the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team.

Prior To CU/High School—Gerrard competed for Burke Mountain Academy from 2011-16, graduating in 2016 before moving to Colorado and skiing for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail from 2016-18. She has 23 NorAm Cup starts to her credit and At Burke, she was third at Regionals and Nationals in 2014 and in 2015, she was fifth overall at Nationals. She was invited to the National Training Group, the development group for the US Ski Team, but declined to stay in school. At SSCV, she traveled and competed in most of the RMISA meets in 2018, earning two top 20 slalom finishes at Red River in the New Mexico Invitational and taking 11th in slalom and 14th in GS at the Denver Invitational at Loveland. In other races, she had seven top 10 finishes in 2018 include a win in a slalom race at Winter Park in February. Since skiing in FIS sanctioned races in 2015, she has started more than 130 races and finished more than 90 of them. She has 25 top 10 finishes with 14 top 5's to her credit including two podium appearances and one win.

In the Classroom—Gerrard is pursuing a double major from the Leeds School of Business in Finance and Marketing and she is part of the honors program and the Dean's Leadership Fellows program. She was named to the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team in both 2019 and 2020 for maintaining above a 3.5 GPA and participating in Regionals.

Personal—Olivia Rachel Gerrard was born Feb. 3, 1998, in Norwalk, Ct. She has two sisters, Sofia and Isabelle, and one brother, Campbell. She enjoys soccer, hiking, making neckies and paddle boarding. She competed competitively in soccer and gymnastics until pursuing skiing full time. She moved from Connecticut to Colorado after graduating high school to compete for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail.

Why Colorado—"I chose Colorado because I wanted to surround myself with the best skiers on the circuit. I wanted to continue pushing my skiing and be on a team that would not only push me but push their limits toward a national title. After moving to Vail for my two gap years, I fell in love with the state and couldn't see myself leaving. CU was the perfect fit."