Rachel Roosevelt

Position:
Alpine
Height:
5-10
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Storrs, Conn.
High School:
Stratton Mtn. (Vt.) Academy

2005 Second Team All-American (Giant Slalom)

Top Career Slalom Finish: 1st (2005 New Mexico Invitational)

Top Career Giant Slalom Finish: 3rd (2005 Alaska Invitational)

This Season ? “Rachel is this year’s alpine team captain. In her senior year, Rachel is more focused and committed than ever before which is hard to imagine. Despite a very hard school load, Rachel decided to make the last year of her skiing career the best year and is dedicating all her effort in order to do so.”

2007 ? Roosevelt placed in the top-20 in all but one race, including three top-10 finishes. She finally cracked the top-10 in her fourth race when she took eighth at the Denver Invitational for her top giant slalom finish of the season. Her best finish of the season was at New Mexico where she claimed seventh in the slalom.

2006 ? Roosevelt got off to a solid start early in the season, but some late season falls kept her out of her second straight NCAA Championship meet. In the season opener she made the top 20 with a 14th place finish in the GS, and followed that up with a third place finish in the GS at the Montana State Invite. At the CU Invite she fell on her first run of the GS, and then took 35th in the slalom. In CU’s last regular season meet she managed two top 20 finishes, finishing 11th in the GS and 17th in the slalom. In the RMISA Championships, she fell on her second GS run and then did not compete in the slalom.

2005 ? The third Stratton Mountain School product in as many seasons, Roosevelt made an immediate impact in the season opener finishing third in the slalom and fourth in the GS at Utah. Her season and collegiate best third place GS finish was a week later in Jackson Hole before suffering a fall in the first slalom run but came back to post the 15th best second run time, but finished a disappointing 31st. Following the meet she joined teammates Erika Hogan, Kristin Taylor and Lucie Zikova at the World University Games in Innsbruck and came away with a 13th place GS finish and 19th place slalom effort. Her only DNF during the regular season was during the second GS run at Winter Park, but she rebounded with a sixth-place slalom finish. She claimed her first collegiate win in the slalom during the conclusion of the New Mexico Invitational the day before regionals. She entered her first NCAA Championships as the west’s No. 7 seed, coming away with a Second Team All-American 10th place finish in the GS in gusting 50 mile-an-hour winds before suffering a disqualification during the second run of the slalom for apparently straddling a gate near the end of the run. Prior to the DQ, she had posted a seventh-place time of 1:27.59.

High School ? Roosevelt is a 2001 graduate of Stratton (Vt.) Mountain school and is the former prep teammate of CU alums Erika and Brad Hogan. While attending Stratton she was the North American Junior National Champion and Junior Olympic slalom champion. Roosevelt chose the CU-Boulder campus, and the Rockies, over Dartmouth, Alaska-Anchorage, New Hampshire, Boise State and Utah.

Club ? Roosevelt was a member of the U.S. Ski Team for five years and competed on the World Junior Team from 2001-03. As a member of the U.S. Ski Team, she took both the slalom and GS events at the Eastern Cup on Sugarloaf (Maine), had a Super G win in February on the same mountain, and finished seventh in the slalom in Nor-Am competition at Georgian Peaks (Ontario) in 2004. Last year she had back to back GS wins, again on Sugarloaf, a runner-up effort in the downhill at Lake Louise (Alberta) and a fourth place finish in the event at U.S. Nationals at Whiteface (Lake Placid), N.Y. as well as an impressive 15th place finish in the downhill at the 2003 Europa Cup in France. She also took gold in the slalom at the North American Junior Championships on Sugarloaf. Prior to joining the U.S. Ski Team, she was a Junior Olympic champion in the slalom in Lake Placid in ’98.

In the Classroom ? Roosevelt graduated from Stratton Mountain with a 3.89 grade point average and was an academic honor roll student and recipient of the overall achievement award in athletics and academics. She is an international affairs major at CU and she would like to pursue a career at the United Nations as an international diplomat. Roosevelt was named to the 2007 NCAA Skiing All-Academic Team.

Personal ? Rachel Madeline Roosevelt was born Aug. 25, 1983 in Hartford, Conn. She is the daughter of Nick Roosevelt and Susan Cohen of Storrs, Conn. She has an older brother, Nick, who used to ski race in high school. Her hobbies include dancing, yoga, swimming and playing tennis. Her volunteer work includes working with a local young parent program (for teenage mothers), fundraising for the Boulder Food Drive and public speaking to high school students and bi-lingual elementary students. She is the great, great, great niece, once removed, of former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt. Her grandfather, Julian Kean Roosevelt, won an Olympic gold medal in sailing in the 1952 XV Olympiad in Helsinki, Finland.