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Utah Alpine Team Welcomes Four to Roster
9/9/2021 12:56 PM | Skiing
Defending National Champions bolster powerful team with new additions for 2021-22
SALT LAKE CITY – The defending national champion Utah Ski Team will be strengthened in 2021-22 with the addition of four newcomers to its Alpine roster, head coach JJ Johnson announced. This follows the addition of four to the Nordic squad, as the Utes reload to make another championship run under Director of Skiing Fredrik Landstedt.
Three of the alpine signees are incoming freshmen, and will be joined by one collegiate transfer, All-American Josefine Selvaag, from the University of Vermont. The fifth-year transfer from Oslo, Norway, earned two second-team All-America honors in 2021, by finishing seventh in both the slalom and giant slalom at the NCAA Championships. Selvaag helped lead Vermont to a sixth-place team finish. She had a first-place finish for Vermont in the giant slalom at the 2020 Bates Carnival.
Joining Selvaag on the women's team is incoming freshman Kaja Norbye, also from Oslo, Norway. Norbye was the overall GS-cup winner in the EuropeanCup, and earned two bronze medals in the giant slalom at the Junior World Ski Championships.
On the men's side, freshman Jeremy Mathers (Cottonwood Heights, Utah) joins the Utes after performing well in 2020-21 with 19 top 20 finishes in FIS and U.S. national championship races, including 11 top 10 finishes. He earned a win in the giant slalom at Big Sky Resort on Jan. 10, 2019.
Rounding out the incoming freshman signees is Oliver Parazette from Jackson, Wyo. Parazette registered 29 top 20 finishes in FIS and U.S. national championship races in 2020-21, including 18 in the top 10. He ranked first overall in the NPS slalom standings.
The Utah Ski Team has won the last two NCAA Championships, in 2019 and 2021, and was leading the 2020 competition after two days before the event was halted and not completed because of the pandemic.
Three of the alpine signees are incoming freshmen, and will be joined by one collegiate transfer, All-American Josefine Selvaag, from the University of Vermont. The fifth-year transfer from Oslo, Norway, earned two second-team All-America honors in 2021, by finishing seventh in both the slalom and giant slalom at the NCAA Championships. Selvaag helped lead Vermont to a sixth-place team finish. She had a first-place finish for Vermont in the giant slalom at the 2020 Bates Carnival.
Joining Selvaag on the women's team is incoming freshman Kaja Norbye, also from Oslo, Norway. Norbye was the overall GS-cup winner in the EuropeanCup, and earned two bronze medals in the giant slalom at the Junior World Ski Championships.
On the men's side, freshman Jeremy Mathers (Cottonwood Heights, Utah) joins the Utes after performing well in 2020-21 with 19 top 20 finishes in FIS and U.S. national championship races, including 11 top 10 finishes. He earned a win in the giant slalom at Big Sky Resort on Jan. 10, 2019.
Rounding out the incoming freshman signees is Oliver Parazette from Jackson, Wyo. Parazette registered 29 top 20 finishes in FIS and U.S. national championship races in 2020-21, including 18 in the top 10. He ranked first overall in the NPS slalom standings.
The Utah Ski Team has won the last two NCAA Championships, in 2019 and 2021, and was leading the 2020 competition after two days before the event was halted and not completed because of the pandemic.
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