On Bredal: Two-time All-American, earning classic honors in 2018 and freestyle honors in 2020 … three-time All-RMISA, earning first-team honors in 2020 and 2021 … six career podiums and 15 career top-five finishes … 36 career top 10 finishes.
2021: first team All-RMISA ... Two podium finishes ... Eight top-five finishes ... 10 top-10 finishes ... season-best finish came in second in the 5K Classic at the Colorado Invite ... Came in third in the 10K Freestyle at the RMISA Invitational ... Finished every race in the top-8 through the season
2020: Earned All-America honors with an eighth-place finish in the 5-km freestyle NCAA Championships (classic cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic) … first-team All-RMISA … three podium finishes … season-best finish second in the 5-km freestyle at the Colorado Invitational … third in the 10-km freestyle at the Denver Invite and the 5-km freestyle at the Utah Invite … five top-five finishes … one of just two skiers in the RMISA to finish every race in the top 10.
2019: Alternate for the NCAA Championships … second-team All-RMISA … earned first career podium with a second-place finish in the 5-km freestyle at the Montana State Invitational … fifth in the 10-km classic at the Colorado Invitational … finished in the top 10 seven times out of eight races competed … Utah won the NCAA Championship … USCSCA National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team.
2018: Earned All-America honors with a seventh-place finish in the 5-km classic at the NCAA Championships while finishing 19th in the 15-km freestyle … eight top-10 finishes during the season … season-best finish of sixth place done three times: the 5-km classic at the Utah Invite, the 21-km freestyle at the New Mexico Invite and the 5-km freestyle at the Denver Invite.
Prior to Utah: Attended Jackson Hole Community School (Wyoming) before moving to Norway to train beginning with the 2014-15 season … 35th in U20 in the 5-km classic at the 2017 Norwegian National Junior Championship … three top-20 finishes in 2016-17 … 26th in the 10-km freestyle at the 2015 Norwegian National Junior Championship … three top-10 finishes in national races in 2014-15 … finished 15th in the 5-km freestyle at 2014 U.S. Junior Nationals … also ran cross country at Jackson.
Personal: Daughter of Erling Michael and Nola Bredal … father Erling Michael also attended Utah … two brothers … has dual Norwegian and American citizenship … kinesiology major.
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