Louison Accambray

Run one of the Slalom during the Denver Invitational at Loveland Ski Area on January 7th, 2025 in Georgetown, Colorado. - Matan Coll, Colorado Athletics.

Photo by: Matan Coll, CU Athletics

Position:
Alpine
Height:
5-4
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
La Clusaz, France
High School:
Lycee D'ete
Prev School:
Pole France Albertville/French National Team

Honors

Two-Time Second-Team All-American (2025 SL, 2025 GS)
RMISA MVP (Women's GS)
First-Team All-RMISA
CUSPY Winner Female Freshman of the Year
Outstanding Alpine Woman Award
RMISA Skier of the Meet (DU Invitational)
Two-Time CU Athlete of the Week (Jan. 12, 2025; Feb. 16, 2025)

At Colorado: 2025 (Freshman)—Accambray finished out one of the more successful freshmen seasons in CU history, not finishing lower than ninth all season and earning two second-team All-America honors while picking up three race wins along the way. She finished 12 of 14 races with eight top-five finishes that included five podiums and three wins. She had a run of five straight podiums spanning a month of action, starting with her first win in the first GS race of the season at the DU Invitational. Then at the Montana State Invitational, she took home third in both races before winning both GS races in Utah, the first a qualifier race and then as part of the Utah Invitational. In four races in Alaska, she finished three with two fourths and a seventh, and then at the NCAA Championships, she took home seventh in the slalom and ninth in the GS. On top of her two second-team All-America honors, she was named the RMISA Women’s MVP for the GS, first-team All-RMISA, and she won the CUSPY for Female Freshman of the Year amongst all CU student-athletes and was named the team’s Outstanding Alpine Woman. She was a multiple-time CU Athlete of the Week and won the RMISA Skier of the Meet for the DU Invitational.

Prior to CU—Accambray skied for Club Des Sports La Clusaz and the French National Team prior to coming to Colorado. She skied at the World Junior Championships in 2019 and had a 16th place finish in Alpine Combined despite a DNF in slalom. She had 15 starts on the European Cup before coming to Colorado with one top 30 finish to earn points in a GS in Zinal, Switzerland, in 2022. She also headed to Argentina to take part in South American Cup races in 2023 where she took fifth in a GS and seventh in a slalom race. She has taken part in the French National Championships since 2018 and she won the GS national championship in 2022 in Tignes. From 2022-24 at the French National Championships, she had 11 starts and finished nine of those races all in the top 20 with two top five performances, the other being a fourth place in slalom in 2024, also at Tignes. Entering CU, she had seven wins in FIS races dating back to 2019 and 40 total podium appearances as far back as 2018 when she took second in back-to-back GS races in Auron, France.