Race-by-Race Results
Honors & Awards: 2024 Second-Team All-American in Nordic 7.5K Freestyle … Team Captain (2025) ... DU Skiing’s 2024 Women’s Nordic Most Valuable Skier ... DU Skiing’s 2023 Nordic Rookie of the Year … 3x National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team (2023, 2024, 2025)
2025 (Junior): Finished all 10 races she started, earning seven top-20 placements and placed twice in the top 10 while leading as the women’s Nordic team captain … Served as an alternate for DU’s women’s Nordic team for the 2025 NCAA Championships … Had season-best results at Denver’s home meet at Maloit Park on Feb. 8-9, placing ninth in the 7.5K classic interval start before coming in eighth in the 10K freestyle pursuit … Began the season at the U.S. Cross Country National Championships by coming in 22nd in the Alaska Anchorage Invitational’s 10K freestyle on Jan. 2 … Did not start the 20K classic at the UAA Invite/U.S. Nationals on Jan. 5 … Came in 23rd in the 7.5K classic and 18th in the 15K freestyle at the Utah Invitational on Jan. 18-19 … Was 11th in the 20K freestyle and 20th in the 7.5K classic at the Montana State Invite on Jan. 24-26 … Did not race in classic sprints on Feb. 16 but placed 11th in the 10K freestyle on Feb. 17 to help Denver to the meet win at the Alaska Fairbanks Invitational … Placed 21st in the 7.5K classic and 13th in the 20K freestyle at the RMISA Championships on Feb. 22 … Transferred to Utah after the season … Finished her time at Denver with 12 top-10s and one top-five while finishing 31-of-32 races.
2024 (Sophomore): Recorded a career-best seven top-10 finishes, including six in a row from Feb. 3-March 7 … Finished all 12 races she’s participated in … Earned second-team All-American honors by placing 10th in the 7.5K freestyle at the NCAA Championships on March 9 … Registered her first career top-five finish by placing fourth in the 10K classic on Feb. 9 at the Denver Invitational … Placed 10th in the 5K freestyle at the DU Invite on Feb. 10 … Picked up a pair of 10th-place results in the 7.5K freestyle and 20K classic at the RMISA Championships on Feb. 24-25 … Began the season on Jan. 2 at the U.S. Cross Country National Championships by coming in 10th in the 10K classic in the Westminster Invitational … Did not race in freestyle sprints at the Westminster meet on Jan. 4 … Placed 18th in classic sprints at a RMISA Nordic Qualifier during U.S. Nationals on Jan. 7 … Was 24th in the 7.5K freestyle and finished 22nd in the 10K classical pursuit at the Utah Invitational on Jan. 12-13 … Scored for the Pioneers in both races at the CU Invitational, placing 12th in the 7.5K freestyle and 10th in the 20K classic … Led Denver by finishing 20th in the 20K classic at the NCAA Championships on March 11.
2023 (Freshman): Recorded three top-10 finishes in the classical and posted five top-15 finishes, with two of those results coming in freestyle … Finished nine of her 10 races and placed in the top 20 in eight of them … Scored in all nine races she finished and was DU’s top women’s Nordic scorer in five of the events … Did not race in the first four events of the year: the RMISA Nordic Qualifiers/U.S. Cross Country National Championships on Jan. 2-4 and the Montana State Invitational on Jan. 13-14, the latter of which was due to representing her home country of Norway at the FISU World University Games in Lake Placid, New York … Was DU’s top scorer in her collegiate debut in the 20K classic at the Colorado Invitational on Feb. 3 in Steamboat Springs … Did not finish the 5K freestyle on Feb. 4 at the CU Invite … Tied a season-best result in freestyle in 11th in the 5K at the Denver Invite on Feb. 10, which she matched with another 11th-place result in the 5K freestyle at the RMISA Championships on Feb. 24 … Posted her second top 10 of the season in ninth in the 10K classic at the DU Invite on Feb. 11 … Was 18th in freestyle sprints and 22nd in the 10K classic at the Alaska Anchorage Invitational on Feb. 20-21 … Had her best finish of her freshman campaign in sixth in the 20K classic at the RMISA Championships on Feb. 25 … Was one of two Denver skiers in women’s Nordic at the NCAA Championships, finishing 20th in both the 5K freestyle on March 9 and 20K classic on March 11 in Lake Placid.
Before Denver: Previously competed for Røa IL and Fossum Elite … Placed sixth in the Norwegian national team sprint with her sister in 2022 … Earned a top-30 result in 21st in the 20K classic in the Scandinavian Cup in Otepaa, Estonia, on Feb. 12, 2022 … Came in 19th in the 30K freestyle and 32nd in the 10K classic at Norway's National Championships on March 26-29, 2022 … Finished 19th in the Skiathlon (7.5K classic/7.5K freestyle) on April 7, 2022 at the Norwegian Nationals.
Personal: Daughter of Jon and Elin Rugnes Andersen … Has a sister, Nora … Graduated from Persbråten VGS in 2020 … Father was a Nordic combined skier for the Norwegian National Team.
Why DU: "I wanted to have the opportunity to combine both studies and skiing, and I think Denver is perfect for that."
