Henrik Hoye

Position:
Nordic
Height:
6-3
Weight:
178
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Oslo, Norway
High School:
Handelsgym/II Hemind

Top Career Classical Finish: 2nd (four times, last at 2005 West Regionals)

Top Career Freestyle Finish: 2nd (2003 Montana State Invitational)

2003 Second-Team All-American (classical)

2004 Second Team All-American (freestyle)

2005 First-Team All-American (classical, freestyle)

2003, 04 All-Rocky Mountain Ski Association Team

This Season ? “It is difficult to improve on last years NCAA Championships performance of two podiums, but we are expecting the same and more from him this year because he is capable of it. We believe he can be an NCAA Champion!”

2005 ? With a pair of third place finishes at the NCAA Championships, Hoye became CU’s second straight two-time first-team All-American in the discipline in a single championships, following teammate Erling Christiansen’s performance a year earlier. Hoye turned in all but one top-10 finish in nine races in ?05 and scored in all six meets. Following a 13th place freestyle finish in the season opener, he’s posted all top-10 finishes. After matching a course-best fourth-place classic finish at New Mexico, he sat out the freestyle loops due to illness. He’s went into his third NCAA Championships as the No. 9 seed out of the west, coming off the strongest west regional meet of his career with a seventh place freestyle finish before a runner-up classical effort, falling short of his first career win by nine-tenths of a second to Denver’s Rene Reisshauer.

2004 ? Hoye had top-10 finishes in all but one race in ’04, and finished fourth in five of his last eight attempts. He had four straight entering the NCAA Championships where he finished in a second-team All-American 10th place finish in the 10k freestyle and 11th in the 20k classical race. His only miss of the season was due to illness in the freestyle portion of the New Mexico Invitational. He was named to the All-Rocky Mountain Ski Association Team.

2003 ? Hoye joined the team in January, in time for the remote Alaska-Anchorage meet in Soldier Hollow, Utah and after a 15th place finish in the freestyle and not finishing the classical, he has seen all but one top-10 finishes since from the Oslo, Norway native. He had a team-best effort (third) at the Montana State Invitational and finished sixth in the freestyle portion the next day. The team’s strongest single meet effort of the season came from Hoye when he posted a runner-up finish in both races in the CU Invitational, almost taking the freestyle from New Mexico’s Jimmy Vika who edged Hoye by one-tenth of a second. Like three other nordic teammates, he missed the Western State meet, but unlike the other three, it was due to injury as he subluxed his right shoulder prior to the first race. He rebounded at the West Regional to finish 11th in the freestyle and overcame a stomach virus to post a runner-up finish for the third time this year in the classical race. He would go on to finish 19th in the 10k freestyle in Hanover, before turning in a sixth-place All-American effort in the 20k classical in his first NCAA Championships. He was an RMISA All Conference selection.

Club? Hoye skied for the same club team as teammate Erling Christiansen, I.L. Heming, from 1994-03. He was also a member of the Junior National Flatwater Kayaking Team from 1999-01. In 1999 he finished sixth in a 15k classical race and matched that finish a year later on a 10k course and finished fifth in a 20k classical race in ’01.

Academics? Hoye is an economics and finance major at Colorado.

Personal? Born April 18, 1982 in Oslo, Henrik Wold Hoye is the son of Trond Hoye and Kari Wold and is the older brother of Kristin (20) and Adreas (15).