STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo.—Sophomore Hanna Abrahamsson crushed the competition Friday as the Colorado Buffaloes Ski Team took the Day 1 lead in its own Spencer James Nelson Memorial Invitational, with 20K classic races held here at Howelsen Hill.
Abrahamsson took off early in the race and skied a majority of the 20K race alone and ended up winning the race by one minute and 47 seconds. Junior Weronika Kaleta and senior Anna-Maria Dietze battled out with Utah's Celine Mayer for the next three spots with Mayer edging both out and Kaleta beating Dietze by eight-tenths of a second.