Hannah Saethereng

Position:
Alpine
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Harestua, Norway
High School:
NTG Lillehammer
Prev School:
Harestua Il / Norwegian National Team

Honors

Honorable Mention All-RMISA (2025)
National All-Academic Ski Team (2025; 3.5 Cumulative GPA)
CUSPY Finalist Female Freshman of the Year (2025)

At Colorado: Career—Including four seasons at Westminster and her final half-season as a Buff, she ended her career with 57 race starts and she finished an astounding 54 of them with 51 in the top 20, 29 in the top 10 and 12 in the top five with eight podium appearances and two race wins. She was a first-team All-American and multiple time All-RMISA selection during her career.

2025 (Graduate)—Saethereng skied her fifth and final season with the Buffaloes as a graduate transfer, and after a solid start to the season, she saw her season and career come to an unfortunate conclusion with an injury that kept her out for the remainder of the season. She started strong, particularly in GS races, where she was fourth in her first GS and seventh in her second before being injured. She finished five of six races on the season with two in the top 10 and one top-five finish. She did enough in those six races to be named a CUSPY Female Newcomer of the Year Finalist, Honorable Mention All-RMISA, and in the classroom, she was named to the National All-Academic Ski Team.

At Westminster College (2021-24)—One of the top racers in the NCAA throughout her time at Westminster, she skied in 51 races and finished 49 of them with 46 top 20, 46 top 10 and 28 top 5 finishes including eight podiums and two race wins. She earned two All-America honors while at Westminster, including first-team honors in the GS in 2023 with a fourth-place finish. Her first race win came at the 2021 RMISA Championships in the GS making her the Individual RMISA Championships. In 2021 she finished all 12 races with 11 top 20, six top 10 and five top five including three podium performances and one race win. In 2022 she finished all 12 races in the top 20 and nine in the top 10 with one podium appearance. In 2023 she finished 12 of 13 races, all in the top 20 with four top 10 and two top five finishes including one podium. In 2024 she finished 13 of 14 races, 11 in the top 20 and eight in the top 10 with three podiums and one race win.

Prior to College—She skied for Harestua IL in Norway. She made her World Cup debut in 2019 in a Super G race in Grandvalira Soldeu - El Tarter, Angola and finished 18th place. She competed in the World Junior Championships from 2018-20 and won the Junior World Championship in ghe Super G in 2019 at Val di Fassa, Italy, where she also took sixth in the Alpine Combined and seventh in the Downhill. She had at least one top 20 in each of her three Junior World Championship appearances. She had 59 starts on the European Cup circuit from 2016-20 and had 22 top 30 finishes to score points. She had two top 10s on the European Cup, taking seventh in a Super G in Kvitfjell in 2019 and 10th in a Downhill in 2020 at Pila. She took part in four Norwegian National Championships from 2016-19 and had 14 total top 10 performances there including second in the Super G in 2019 after taking third in the same race two years earlier in 2017. She also took second in the Super G at the 2021 US National Championships. In all she had 22 FIS victories across all levels and 49 total podium appearances dating back to 2017.

In The Classroom—She graduated from Colorado in 2025 with a Master's Degree in Finance from the Leeds School of Business.

Personal—Birthday is April 20 and she was born in Norway.