UNIVERSITY OF DENVER SKIING - HOME TO 24 NATIONAL CHAPMIONSHIPS TABLE OF CONTENTS 2020 NCAA Qualifi er Results ..................3 university information Name ................................University of Denver 2020 Season Results ............................4-7 Location ................................Denver, Colorado Denver Invite ........................................4 Address ........................2201 East Asbury Ave. Colorado Invite .....................................5 Denver, CO 80208-0320 Utah Invite ............................................6 Founded ........................................................1864 RMISA Championships .......................7 Enrollment ................................................ 11,500 Coaching Staff ....................................8-11 Nickname .............................................. Pioneers Colors ........................................ Crimson & Gold Andy LeRoy ..........................................8 Conference.............................Rocky Mountain Tyler Shepherd .....................................9 Intercollegiate Ski Association Toni Roponen ......................................10 Affi liation ................................. NCAA Division I Rogan Brown ......................................11 Chancellor ............................... Jeremy Haefner 2020 Pioneers ...................................12-38 University of Iowa ‘79 Eleri Smart ...........................................12 University of Wisconsin ‘86 Vice Chancellor of Athletics.. Karlton Creech Reece Bell............................................13 North Carolina State University Katie Hensien ......................................14 Website .............. www.DenverPioneers.com Amelia Smart .......................................15 Andrea Komsic ...................................16 team information Serina Kidd ..........................................17 Home Ski Areas ................Winter Park Resort Storm Klomhaus .................................18 Devil’s Thumb Cross Country Center Head Alpine Coach ......................Andy LeRoy Cole Puckett ........................................19 University of Colorado ’03 Colby Lane ..........................................20 Associate Head Alpine Coach ........Tyler Shepherd Simon Fournier ...................................21 Colorado ‘05 Tristan Lane.........................................22 Head Nordic Coach....................Toni Roponen Tobias Kogler ......................................23 University of Jyvaskyla Jett Seymour .......................................24 Assistant Nordic Coach ............Rogan Brown Nick Santaniello ..................................25 Vermont, ‘15 Emma Larsson ....................................26 media information Eveliina Piippo ....................................27 Dir. of Media Relations .....Niko Blankenship Vera Norli .............................................28 Offi ce Phone ......................(303) 871-3942 Sadie Cotton ........................................29 Cell Phone ...........................(513) 225-6560 Gracie Shanley ....................................30 Email [email protected] Skiing Contact ........................ Seth Goodman Kristine Karsrud ..................................31 Cell Phone ...........................(224) 723-9645 Bernhard Flaschberger ......................32 E-mail .................. [email protected] Jimmy Colfer .......................................33 Website ..........................DenverPioneers.com Ole Marius Kirkeng .............................34 Twitter ID ........................................... DU_Skiing Borgar Norrud .....................................35 Facebook ..... University of Denver Ski Team Evan Barbier........................................36 media guide credit The 2020 Denver Pioneers Skiing NCAA Nick Sweeney ......................................37 Championship Guide was published by Simon Zink .........................................38 the University of Denver Media Relations NCAA Champ. Results .....................39-40 Offi ce. This guide was written, designed Denver All-Americans ..................... 41 and edited by Ryan Syrkus and Seth Goodman. Photos provided by Clarkson Denver Olympians ...........................42 Creative, Gepa Images, the University Ind. NCAA Champs ................................43 of Utah, Jeff Shiff rin, Alicia Carter, Steve Ind. NCAA Champ. Record ...................44 Shanley, Ryan Syrkus, Mike Kennedy and Denver Athletics. TWITTER: @DU_SKIING | INSTAGRAM: DU_SKIING UNIVERSITY OF DENVER SKIING - HOME TO 24 NATIONAL CHAPMIONSHIPS S/GS S/GS C/F C/F DU Invitational 3rd 3/4 3/5 6/6 5/4 CU Invitational 4th 1/3 3/5 6/6 5/5 Utah Invitational 2nd 1/3 2/4 3/2 4/3 RMISA Championships 1st 1/2 1/3 1/3 4/2 Eveliina Piippo --/-- --/-- 4/1 1/3 1/1 Vera Norli 10/16 10/23 5/22 6/13 2/18 Emma Larsson 27/23 24/22 18/-- DNS/18 13/17 Ole Marius Kirkeng 11/12 10/13 9/19 7/16 13/24 Borgar Norrud DNF/-- 20/20 22/26 --/-- 12/7 Bernhard Flaschberger 9/4 --/17 10/2 4/1 9/1 Amelia Smart --/-- DNF/-- 1/-- 1/13 1/11 1/5 Storm Klomhaus --/-- 1/5 3/-- 4/6 12/1 2/2 Andrea Komsic 2/4 6/6 5/DNS 6/7 2/7 5/7 Tobias Kogler 4/1 8/5 DQ/3 9/4 DNF/1 1/2 Simon Fournier --/-- --/-- --/-- 6/15 4/18 3/13 Jett Seymour --/-- --/-- --/-- 21/23 7/6 22/10 TWITTER: @DU_SKIING | INSTAGRAM: DU_SKIING UNIVERSITY OF DENVER SKIING - HOME TO 24 NATIONAL CHAPMIONSHIPS TWITTER: @DU_SKIING | INSTAGRAM: DU_SKIING UNIVERSITY OF DENVER SKIING - HOME TO 24 NATIONAL CHAPMIONSHIPS TWITTER: @DU_SKIING | INSTAGRAM: DU_SKIING UNIVERSITY OF DENVER SKIING - HOME TO 24 NATIONAL CHAPMIONSHIPS TWITTER: @DU_SKIING | INSTAGRAM: DU_SKIING UNIVERSITY OF DENVER SKIING - HOME TO 24 NATIONAL CHAPMIONSHIPS TWITTER: @DU_SKIING | INSTAGRAM: DU_SKIING UNIVERSITY OF DENVER SKIING - HOME TO 24 NATIONAL CHAPMIONSHIPS Andy LeRoy 14th Season • Colorado (2003) Andy LeRoy enters his 14th season as head alpine coach at the University of Denver, continuing a lifetime on the slopes in his home state. LeRoy led the Pioneers to their 24th overall NCAA Championship in 2018 and sixth in his tenure. Alpine skier have registered 19 individual National Championships during his 13 appearances. Denver has had ve athletes go on to be Olympians and 106 All-Americans coached by LeRoy. He was named Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association Coach of the Year for alpine in each of his rst three seasons at Denver. From 2003-06, LeRoy served as alpine coach for the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, where he was named the Rocky Mountain Regional Coach of the Year in 2005 and Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club Coach of the Year in 2006. Before moving to Steamboat to coach at the club level, LeRoy served as an assistant at the University of Colorado from 2001-02, helping the Buff s to a second-place nish at the 2001 and third-place nish at the 2002 NCAA National Championships. A former alpine skier at CU, LeRoy was a First Team All-American and individual national champion in the slalom at the 2000 NCAA National Championships and named CU Athlete of the Year that same year. LeRoy was a member of the U.S. Ski Team from 1993-99 and was on the 1998 U.S. Winter Olympic team that competed in Nagano, Japan. He won the North American Cup Slalom title in 1999. He also holds the British National Slalom Championship from 1997. LeRoy is happily married with two children. TWITTER: @DU_SKIING | INSTAGRAM: DU_SKIING UNIVERSITY OF DENVER SKIING - HOME TO 24 NATIONAL CHAPMIONSHIPS Tyler Shepherd Eighth Season • Colorado (2005) Tyler Shepherd joined the Pioneers coaching staff as an assistant in the summer of 2012 and enters his eighth season in 2020. In 2018, he was named the Alpine Coach of the Year by RMISA. He helped the Pioneers capture their 24th NCAA title in 2018. Overall, he has helped the University of Denver to three NCAA Championships and eight top- ve nishes. Shepherd has coached 11 individual National Champions, 64 All-Americans, and ve olympians. Prior to coming to Denver, Shepherd served as the alpine head coach at the University of New Mexico. His coaching career started off in 2007 as the ski cross head coach for the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA). Shepherd led the team in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010. The USSA dropped the ski cross program, allowing Shepherd to return to the NCAA, taking the alpine head coaching position at UNM in the fall of 2010. Shepherd, a member of the U.S. National Team from 1998-2001, skied collegiately at University of Colorado from 2001-03. In 2002 he raced to First Team All-American honors in the slalom. Shepherd continued skiing after graduation in the skiercross, competing in the X-Games and on the World Cup circuit. Shepherd received his B.S. in Advertising in 2005 from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Colorado. TWITTER: @DU_SKIING | INSTAGRAM: DU_SKIING UNIVERSITY OF DENVER SKIING - HOME TO 24 NATIONAL CHAPMIONSHIPS Toni Roponen First Season • TWITTER: @DU_SKIING | INSTAGRAM: DU_SKIING UNIVERSITY OF DENVER SKIING - HOME TO 24 NATIONAL CHAPMIONSHIPS Rogan Brown First Season • Vermont (2015) Durango, Colorado Rogan Brown enters his rst season as the Nordic assistant coach for the 2020 season. A former professional Nordic ski racer, Brown joins the staff as an assistant coach after spending the last 13 months in Bozeman, Montana, working both as a head coach of the elite and postgraduate Nordic team with the Bridger Ski Foundation. Prior to Brown’s time in Bozeman,