DURHAM, N.H. – Two-time All-American Emma Woodhouse (Collingwood, Ontario) and NCAA Championship competitor Will Bruneau-Bouchard (Quebec City, Quebec) earned alpine team MVP awards while three-time National Collegiate All-Academic team member Will Bodewes(Durango, Colo.) and freshman Eleonora Olsmats (Djursholm, Sweden) claimed Nordic team MVP honors to highlight the University of New Hampshire ski team's annual awards.
Woodhouse, a junior co-captain, placed ninth in giant slalom and 10th in slalom at the 2019 NCAA Championships, hosted by the University of Vermont, for her two All-American Second-Team accolades. The Collingwood, Ontario, native earned a berth on the All-East First Team courtesy of a No. 5 East ranking with a best-2-combined 270 points in SL and GS competition during the EISA season. She ranked fifth in SL (140 points) and eighth in GS (130 points). Woodhouse registered six Top-5 finishes and placed in the Top 10 in 11 of the season's 12 overall races. Her best weekend came at the St. Lawrence Carnival (Jan. 11-12), where she parlayed runner-up results in both GS and SL to earn the EISA Athlete of the Week award (Jan. 18).
Bruneau-Bouchard was EISA's No. 8-ranked racer in SL and was No. 24 in GS for No. 12 overall in the East to earn one of UNH's four sports at NCAAs. Three of his four Top-10s came in SL, including a tie for fourth place at St. Lawrence and fifth at UNH. The sophomore also recorded his top GS result (10th) at the UNH Carnival.
Bodewes was the Wildcats' top men's Nordic finisher six times this season, highlighted by a 17th-place result in the 20K classic at the EISA Championships, hosted by Bates College, and 10th place in the 3x5K relays alongside Jakob Velle (Oslo, Norway) and Anders Sonnesyn (Minneapolis, Minn.) at the Dartmouth Carnival. The junior mechanical engineering major (3.80 grade point average) leads all UNH skiers with three berths on the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team.
Olsmats, a multi-sport student-athlete who also competes for the Wildcats' cross country and track & field teams, notched the women's team's top Nordic score four times this season. Her season-high finish was 13th in the 3x5K relays at Dartmouth while teamed with Sarah Nadeau (Hopkinton, N.H.) and Ingrid Norton (Midway, Utah). Olsmats posted a perfect 4.0 GPA in her first semester as an engineering physics major to earn a spot on the National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team and the America East Fall 2018 Commissioner's Honor Roll.
Team MVPs Eleonora Olsmats, Will Bodewes, Emma Woodhouse & Will Bruneau-Bouchard
Senior Class Members Will McConville, Geneviève Frigon & Ben Allen
Here is a breakdown of the UNH ski team's notable performers in 2019:
