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Wyatt Gebhardt

Position:
NORDIC
Height:
5-6
Weight:
null
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Steamboat Springs, Colo.
High School:
Steamboat Springs
Prev School:
Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club

Last updated on March 5, 2021

Top Career Classic Finish: 6th (2019 Montana State Invitational)
Top Career Freestyle Finish: 4th (2019 Colorado Invitational)

Honors

Letterwinner (2019)

Career—Gebhardt has finished all 30 races in his career and he has 19 top 20 and six top 10 finishes, five in freestyle action. He has one top five performance, which also came in freestyle.

2021 (Junior)—Gebhardt finished in the top 25 in all 10 races on the season, earning five top 20 and one top 10 finish, the sixth of his career, finishing ninth in the freestyle sprint races at the CU Invitational in Aspen. Prior to that meet, he was 22nd in freestyle and 24th in classic at the RMISA Invitational at Utah, and 11th in freestyle and 20th in classic at the DU Invitational. The other race at CU, he was 14th in the classic race. Closing out the season at Solider Hollow for both the RMISA Invitational at Soldier Hollow and the RMISA Championships, he was 22nd in classic and 23rd in freestyle in the former meet and 24th in classic and 19th in freestyle at the latter.

2020 (Sophomore)—Gebhardt continued his solid skiing into his sophomore season, especially at the start of the season were he opened with a top 10 finish and six straight top 20 finishes before suffering from illness down the stretch. He finished all 10 races with six top 20 and one top 10 finish. That top 10 came straight out of the gate when he took seventh place in the freestyle race at Steamboat Springs in the CU Invitational. He took 18th in the classic race the next day. At the DU Invitational, he finished 15th in the classic race and 19th in the freestyle race at Maloit Park and then had solid races in Aspen in the RMISA Noridc qualifier races, taking 13th in the freestyle race and 17th in the Owl Creek Chase, a 21K race from Aspen to Snowmass. He then fell ill, and struggled a bit down the stretch finishing 25th and 29th in races at Soldier Hollow as part of the Utah Invitational and 26th and 25th in the races in Bozeman as part of the RMISA Championships.

2019 (Freshman)—Gebhardt had four top 10 finishes his freshman season, three in freestyle and one in classic. He opened his career with an impressive sixth place finish in the 10K freestyle race at the Colorado Invitational in his hometown of Steamboat Springs. He followed that up a week later with a ninth place finish in the 10K freestyle race at Crosscut Mountain during the Montana State Invitational. In classic races, he opened with a 19th place finish in the CU Invitational and improved four spots to 15th at the MSU Invitational. He had his two best finishes of the season at New Mexico, earning his first top 10 in classic action with a sixth place finish and then earned his first career top 5 finish, taking fourth in the freestyle race. He added two more top 15 freestyle finishes in Alaska, giving him eight top 20 finishes in 10 races as a freshman with four in top 10 and one in the top five. He lettered by scoring for the team a total of five times, all in the first six races of the season.

Prior To CU—Gebhardt has skied for the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club since 2004. He took second at Junior Nationals in the freestyle sprint in 2018 and was the top qualifier for the junior national team. He has competed at the US National Championships since 2016, taking 37th in the 15K freestyle race at Soldier Hollow in 2017. He had three top 20 finishes in the Junior World Ski Championships, also at Soldier Hollow in 2017, including a ninth place finish in the 4x5K mixed relay. He's also has 15 US Super Tour starts to his credit with two top 30 finishes, a 27th place in the 10K freestyle at Craftsburty in 2018 and a 30th place in the 1.3K freestyle sprint finals at Rendezvous this past December. He has competed in 54 FIS sanctioned races with 18 top 20 finishes and seven top 10s to his credit. He has two top 5 finishes; a fourth place finish at Maloit Park in the 10K Classic race as part of last year's Denver Invitational, and his one podium is a third place finish in a juniors 30K classical race at Craftsbury in 2018.

High School—Gebhardt graduated from Steamboat Springs High School in 2018.

In the Classroom—Gebhardt is majoring in Environmental Science at Colorado and his goals after college are to work on ways to improve the planet.

Personal—Gebhardt was born August 29, 1999, in Greeley, Colo. His parents are Wade and Tiffany Gebhardt and he has one sister, Waverly. He enjoys hunting, fishing, backpacking, backcountry skiing and mountain biking in his spare time.

Why Colorado—Colorado has everything I was interested in and I was able to expand my interests and hobbies."