2012 Skiing Roster
Mary Rose
- Position:
- Nordic
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Steamboat Springs, Colo. (Steamboat Springs/SSWSC)
• Top Career Classic Finish: Fifth (2012 RMISA Championships)
• Top Career Freestyle Finish: Fifth (2013 Denver Invitational)
Honors
• 2012 CU Athlete of the Week (Feb. 20-26; RMISA Championships)
• 2012 Finalist CUSPY Moment of the Year
• 2013 Second-Team All-RMISA
• 2013 CU SAAC Distinguished Service Award (CUSPY)
• 2013 CU Laura Sharpe Flood Award (Ski Team, Spirit, Enthusiasm and Dedication)
• 2013 CU Athlete of the Week (Feb. 18-24; RMISA Championships)
Career at Colorado—Rose concluded her career as one of the top female Nordic skiers in the country, continuing momentum that she created at the RMISA Championships her junior season and continuing that success through her final campaign as a Buff. She raced 38 times with 21 top 20 finishes. She finished her career with six top 10 finishes and two top five, one in each discipline.
2013 (Senior)—Rose continued on the success of her clutch RMISA performance from the end of her junior year and made herself one of the top women’s Nordic skiers in the country. Having one top 5 and one top 10 finish in her career prior to the 2013 season, she opened the season by finishing seventh in both the freestyle and classic races at the Colorado Invitational and then improved up on that with a career best fifth place finish in the freestyle race at the Denver Invitational, where she also finished ninth in the classic race. After falling ill, missing the New Mexico Invitational and finishing 24th and 20th at the Utah Invitational, her steady improvement was evident in her final collegiate races, the RMISA Championships, where she finished 12th in the classical race and eighth in the freestyle. She earned second-team All-RMISA and was the CU Athlete of the Week along with her women’s Nordic teammates for the RMISA Championships. She won the SAAC Distinguished Service Award at the annual CUSPY celebration and was given the Laura Sharpe Flood Memorial Award by the CU coaches for her spirit, enthusiasm and dedication.
2012 (Junior)—Rose turned in one of the most clutch performances in CU history in any sport when she brought home a fifth place finish in the classical race at the RMISA Championships and secured qualification by two points to ensure the Buffs a full squad for the NCAA Championships. It was her best career finish in either discipline by eight spots, topping two 13th place classical finishes earlier in the season. That performance earned her CU Athlete of the Week honors and was a finalist for the CUSPY for Moment of the Year at CU’s all-sports banquet. With four top 20 finishes entering the season, she finished in the top 20 in each of the 10 races leading up to the NCAA Championships. Other than her fifth place finish, she had three top 15 performances, including a 14th place freestyle finish at the Alaska Anchorage Invitational, matching her career best.
2011 (Sophomore)—Rose closed out her sophomore season at CU having raced in all five meets leading to the NCAA Championships, one of just three CU skiers to accomplish that feat. In those 10 races, she finished in the top 25 nine times with three top 20 finishes. In five freestyle races, she finished between 14th and 17th three times, with a career best 14th place finish at the Denver Invitational, a 16th place finish at the Utah Invitational and a 17th place finish at the RMISA Championships, also on Utah’s course. Consistent in classical action, in her five races there she finished 24th or 25th four times.
2010 (Freshman)—Rose finished her first season at Colorado racing in four of the five regular season meets and finishing all eight of those races. She steadily improved throughout the season and ended the season in her hometown with her best performance of the season, taking 18th in the classical race at the RMISA Championships. She opened her career with two top 25 performances at the Montana State Invitational and after a 31st in the classical race and 29th in the freestyle race at the Utah Invitational the next weekend, she placed in the top 24 the rest of the season. After 23rd and 21st place finishes at New Mexico, she missed the Nevada Invitational but had her best performance at the RMISA Championships with a 24th place finish in the freestyle race along with her 18th place finish in the classic race.
High School—Rose came to Colorado after one year at Colorado Mountain College, although she did not compete on the ski team there. She graduated from Steamboat Springs High School in 2009 and she skied for the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club from 1998-2009, the Rocky Mountain Junior National Team from 2005-09 and the Rocky Mountain Select Team in 2009. She won the Hakan Lindgrez Memorial Scholarship in 2008.
In the Classroom—Rose graduated in Sports Psychology at Colorado and is also interested in Environmental Studies.
Personal—Mary Buntrock Rose was born June 2, 1991, in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and is the daughter of Nicholas and Deborah Rose. She has two siblings, Paul, and Olivia.
