Race-by-Race Results
Honors & Awards: 2x First-Team All-American in Slalom (2023 & 2024) ... 2x Second-Team All-American in Giant Slalom (2023 & 2024) ... 2x All-RMISA First Team Women's Alpine (2023 & 2024) ... RMISA Skier of the Meet for Women’s Alpine (2024 RMISA Alpine Qualifiers) ... Team Captain (2024) ... DU Skiing’s 2024 Women’s Alpine Most Valuable Skier & 2023 Alpine Most Improved Skier ... 2023 Colorado Snowsports Museum Female Collegiate Athlete of the Year ... 2x National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team (2021, 2022) ... 2x DU Athletics Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award winner (2022-23 & 2023-24) ... 2024 CSC Academic All-American First Team ... 2024 CSC Academic All-District Team
2024 (Senior): Served as a Denver skiing team captain during her senior campaign … Grabbed two wins while earning five podiums, eight top-five results and placed in the top 10 in 11 races … Began the season by winning the Westminster Invitational’s slalom on Jan. 17 before placing fourth in the same discipline the next day on Jan. 18 in the Utah Invite … Came in 11th in her first giant slalom event of the year at the Westminster Invite on Jan. 19 … Bettered her GS result on Jan. 20 by coming in seventh in the Utah Invitational … Was ninth in the RMISA Alpine Qualifier and 13th in the Colorado Invitational’s giant slalom events on Feb. 1-2 … Earned her second win of the season and fourth of her career by finishing first in the CU Invite’s night slalom on Howelsen Hill on Feb. 3 in Steamboat Springs, Colo. … Placed fourth in both slalom races at the Denver Invitational at Loveland Ski Area on Feb. 5-6 … Came in second in giant slalom at the RMISA Alpine Qualifier and third in GS at the RMISA Championships on Feb. 22-23 in Big Sky, Mont., to wrap up a stretch of five straight top-five results … Came in 12th in slalom at the RMISA Championships on Feb. 24 … Made her second straight NCAA Championships squad and also picked up two All-American awards for the second consecutive year … Posted the second-fastest second run to move from 14th to seventh in giant slalom on March 6 and earned a spot on the podium in third in the night slalom on March 8 at the national championships in Steamboat Springs … Finished her collegiate career with 32 top-20 finishes, 23 top-10s, 16 top-fives, 11 podiums and four victories (all in slalom).
2023 (Junior): Placed in the top 10 in all 11 races she finished, recording eight top-five results, six podiums and two wins … Finished 11-of-13 races … Seven of her eight top-five finishes were in slalom, along with five of her podiums and both victories … Recorded the fastest run four times, with each coming in run 1 in slalom … Opened the season with her best career result at the time with a pair of fourth-place finishes in two slalom races at the Westminster Invitational on Jan. 26 … Placed sixth and seventh respectively in both giant slalom races at the CU Invitational on Feb. 9-10 … Recorded her first career podiums by coming in third in both slalom events at the Denver Invite on Feb. 11-12 … Had her best career finish in giant slalom by placing third at the Alaska Anchorage Invitational on Feb. 21 … After posting a DNF on Feb. 22 on the first day of the RMISA Championship, finished the races in Alaska by earning her first two career victories—winning slalom at both the UAA Invite on Feb. 23 and the RMISA Championship on Feb. 24 … Made her NCAA Championship debut with a seventh-place result in giant slalom on March 8 in Lake Placid, New York … Was national runner-up in second place in slalom at the NCAA Championships on March 10.
2022 (Sophomore): Finished eight-of-12 races during the 2022 season, her first in collegiate racing … Made her debut with the Pioneers in giant slalom at the Montana State Invitational on Jan. 18, finishing 21st … Did not finish the slalom race at the MSU Invite on Jan. 19 … Had a season-best, eighth-place finish in slalom at the RMISA Invitational in Bozeman, Mont., on Jan. 20 … Placed 16th in GS at the RMISA Invite on Jan. 23 in Park City, Utah … Did not finish either the slalom or giant slalom at the Utah Invitational on Jan. 24-25 … Placed 13th in giant slalom at the RMISA Alpine Qualifier at Copper Mountain, Colo., on Feb. 17—her best result in GS during the year … Came in 14th in giant slalom on Feb. 18 but was DQ’d in slalom on Feb. 21 in the Denver Invitational … Finished 17th in giant slalom and 16th in slalom at the RMISA Championships on Feb. 23-24 in Steamboat Springs, Colo. … Closed the season in 13th in a RMISA Alpine Qualifier slalom competition on Feb. 25 at Steamboat … Member of the 2022 National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team.
2021 (Freshman): Did not compete due to injury ... Named to National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team by USCSCA.
Before Denver: Attended CJD Gymnasium Berchtesgaden ... Member of the Ski club Starnberg.
Personal: Daughter of Sofia Brand and Volker Kuchler ... Chose DU because it offers the best academic program combined with a strong ski team to achieve her goals ... Planning on majoring in International Studies.
