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Boee Wins National Skier Of The Year Honors
April 12, 2021 | Skiing
BOULDER - Magnus Boee picked up the largest of his many awards after a spectacular sophomore season, earning the National Men's Nordic Skier of the Year by the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association.
Boee had the most dominant season in CU history for men's Nordic skiers, winning 10 of 12 races and finishing third and fourth in the other two. His 10 wins matches the CU record for a men's skier with Dave Butts in 1960, and is the record for men's Nordic skiers by two wins, breaking Mads Stroem's total of eight in 2016. That season Stroem tied CU records for most freestyle and classic wins in a season with four apiece, and Boee broke both of those records, as well, picking up five wins in each discipline.
Boee had a streak of five straight wins in the regular season and won six of eight regular season races before sweeping both the Regional and NCAA Individual Championships in the postseason. He became just the fifth skier in CU history to sweep regional and national races, joining Stephan Heinzsch (men's alpine, 1977), Jana Weinberger (women's Nordic, 2006), Maria Grevsgaard (women's Nordic, 2008) and Stroem in 2016. Storem and Boee are the only two men's Nordic skiers to also sweep the NCAA Championships races.
To date, he has been honored with two RMISA MVP honors, picking up the award for both classic and freestyle, was first-team All-RMISA and the top seed at the NCAA Championships in both disciplines. He earned RMISA Skier of the Week honors for the first meet of the season and picked up CU Athlete of the Week honors four times.
Boee had the most dominant season in CU history for men's Nordic skiers, winning 10 of 12 races and finishing third and fourth in the other two. His 10 wins matches the CU record for a men's skier with Dave Butts in 1960, and is the record for men's Nordic skiers by two wins, breaking Mads Stroem's total of eight in 2016. That season Stroem tied CU records for most freestyle and classic wins in a season with four apiece, and Boee broke both of those records, as well, picking up five wins in each discipline.
Boee had a streak of five straight wins in the regular season and won six of eight regular season races before sweeping both the Regional and NCAA Individual Championships in the postseason. He became just the fifth skier in CU history to sweep regional and national races, joining Stephan Heinzsch (men's alpine, 1977), Jana Weinberger (women's Nordic, 2006), Maria Grevsgaard (women's Nordic, 2008) and Stroem in 2016. Storem and Boee are the only two men's Nordic skiers to also sweep the NCAA Championships races.
To date, he has been honored with two RMISA MVP honors, picking up the award for both classic and freestyle, was first-team All-RMISA and the top seed at the NCAA Championships in both disciplines. He earned RMISA Skier of the Week honors for the first meet of the season and picked up CU Athlete of the Week honors four times.