Justin Bigatel

Photo by: Matan Coll, CU Athletics

Position:
Alpine
Height:
6-0
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Park City, Utah
High School:
Burke Mountain Academy
Prev School:
US Ski Team

Honors

Second-Team All-RMISA (2025)
RMISA Skier of the Meet (2025 UAA Invitational)
CUSPY Finalist for Male Freshman of the Year (2025)
National All-Academic Ski Team (2025; 3.5 Cumulative GPA)

At Colorado: 2025 (Freshman)—Bigatel put the wraps on a successful freshman season by being at his best late in the season, picking up podiums in each of his last two races of the season, the first two podiums of his career. He finished 10 of 12 races on the season with nine in the top 20, five in the top 10 and two in the top 5, both podiums when he took second and third place in consecutive slalom races in Alaska, first part of the UAA Invitational and then as part of the RMISA Championships. His honors including being named second-team All-RMISA and he was the RMISA Skier of the Meet for the UAA Invitational, when he also took sixth in the GS race, his best finish of the season in that discipline. He was also named a finalist for the CUSPY for Male Freshman of the Year and named to the National All-Academic Ski Team.

Prior to CU—He skied for Park City Ski & Snowboard Club and the US Ski Team. He participated in the Junior World Championships in both 2023 in Austria and 2024 in France and had his best finish of 18th in the slalom in Morzine in 2024. He has skied in four different Continental Cup circuits with almost 100 starts in those races. On the NorAm Cup, he has 89 starts and 50 top 30 starts earning points, including nine top 10 finishes. On the Australian New Zealand Cup, he had two starts, one a 19th place GS finish in 2022 at Coronet Peak, New Zealand. On the European Cup, he had two starts, one slalom and one downhill, in 2023. In the South American Cup, he had four starts, including a second place GS finish in Cerro Castor, Ushuaia, Argentina, in 2025. He also took 10th in a slalom there. He has four wins in FIS races, three in slalom and one in GS, from 2021-24, and 20 total podiums in FIS races in his career. He has finished in the top 25 in the NorAm Cup standings in 2023, '24 and '25, and he was eighth in slalom in 2025 with 167 points.

Personal—Birthday is April 29.