Carmen Nielssen

Position:
Alpine
Height:
5-8
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Kongsberg, Norway
High School:
NTG Bærum
Prev Team:
Alaska Anchorage / Rælingen Skiklubb

Honors & Awards: 2025 First-Team All-American in Slalom … 2025 Second-Team All-American in Giant Slalom … 2024 Second-Team All-American in Slalom … 2025 All-RMISA Second Team – Women’s Alpine … 2025 NCAA Elite 90 Award … 4x National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team (2023, 2024, 2025, 2026) … 2025 CSC Academic All-America First Team … 2024 CSC Academic All-American Second Team … 2026 UAA Dresser Award (highest GPA in athletic department) … 2025 UAA Golden Dumbbell Award (work in the weightroom)

At Alaska Anchorage: Raced collegiately with the UAA Seawolves for four seasons from 2022-2026 … Earned a medical redshirt after missing most of 2026 with an injury … Owns 10 top-10s, 28 top-20s and has finished 33-of-42 career races … Owns five top-five placements and one podium—a runner-up finish in slalom at the 2025 Montana State Invitational … Finished two slalom races in 2026 at Loveland Ski Area where she placed eighth in the Denver Invitational and 18th in the Colorado Invite before getting hurt … Has raced at two NCAA Championships and owns three career All-American awards … Earned a pair of All-American accolades in 2025 in New Hampshire by placing fourth in giant slalom to garner a first-team honor and was selected to the second team in slalom after coming in 10th … Named a second-team All-American in 2024 by coming in eighth in slalom at the NCAAs in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

Other: Has 18 victories and 40 FIS Podium finishes entering the 2027 season … Has taken part in seven FIS Europa Cup races in her career … Won silver in super-G for Team Norway at the 2023 FISU World University Games in Lake Placid, N.Y. … Represented Norway at the 2022 FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships in Panorama, B.C., Canada.

Before College: Owns five medals at the Norwegian National Championships: one gold, one silver and three bronze medals … Finished third in slalom at 2020 National Championships ... Won the Super-G at 2021 National Championships ... Finished third in slalom at 2021 National Championships ... Finished third in downhill and was runner-up in super-G at the 2022 National Championships … Picked up three medals at Norway’s 2021 National Junior Championships, winning both slalom and alpine combined and placing second in downhill … Came in seventh in giant slalom at the 2020 Norwegian Junior Nationals … Also won multiple Norwegian age-group national championship titles between 2015 and 2021 … Named the best female student-athlete at her high school graduation at NTG Bærum … Recognized by Aftenposten as one of Norway’s top alpine skiing talents in November 2021 … Named Rælingen Ski Club’s Best Teammate Award in 2019.

Personal: Full Name is Carmen Sofie Lapingcao Nielssen … Has both an older sister and younger sister and a younger brother … Working on her Master of Science in Applied Quantitative Finance at DU and is expected to graduate in summer 2027 … Graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 grade-point average from Alaska Anchorage in 2026 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, majoring in finance and picking up a minor in economics … Received UAA’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 2026, which honors the top undergraduate finance student in the College of Business and Public Policy … Graduated high school from Norges Toppidrettsgymnas Bærum in 2022.

Why DU: “I chose Denver because of its great ski program and the opportunity to continue developing as an athlete, as well as my love for the Colorado mountains. Daniels College of Business also offers strong academics, and the Applied Quantitative Finance program was exactly the type of master’s degree I wanted to pursue.”