Clare Wise

Position:
Alpine
Height:
5-8
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Wenatchee, Wash.
High School:
Wenatchee/Mission Ridge

Top Career Slalom Finish: 17th (Three times, last 2016 RMISA Championships)
Top Career Giant Slalom Finish: 17th (2014 Colorado Invitationnal)

Honors

Received the distinguished 2016 Pac-12 Leadership Award
2013 Division I National All-Academic Ski Team (3.5 GPA, Participation In RMISA Championships)
2013 4.0 Club
2014 Division I National All-Academic Ski Team (3.5 GPA, Participation in RMISA Championships)
2014 Buffalo Leadership Award
2014 Laura Sharpe Flood Award
2015 Division I National All-Academic Ski Team (3.5 GPA, Participation in RMISA Championships)
2015 4.0 Club
2016 CU Female Senior Scholar Athlete Award
2016 National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team

2016 (Senior) – Was honored with the Pac-12 Leadership Award, one of just two student-athletes in the conference to receive the high honor, which granted her a $3,000 postgraduate scholarship. The award honors student-athletes who have not only been standout leaders on their campuses, within their athletic departments, and on their teams, but have also shown leadership on the Conference level in the areas of student-athlete welfare and student-athlete voice. Wise closed out her senior campaign with a run of her best career finishes, earning three top 20s in her final four collegiate races. In 11 races on the season, she finished 10 races and was three times in the top 20. She earned a top 20 at the RMISA Championships, taking 17th.

2015 (Junior) – She finished 11 races out of the twelve she raced in. She had two top 20 places, one placing nineteenth at the New Mexico Invitational in slalom event. She was on the National All Academic Ski Team and is a member of CU’s 4.0 Club.

2014 (Sophomore)—Wise continued to add depth to a very experienced women’s alpine team her sophomore season when she raced in all 12 races leading up to the NCAA Championships, finishing 10 of those with three top 20 performances. A true student-athlete, in 2014 she was honored with the Buffalo Leadership Award at CU’s Academic Breakfast, given to student-athletes that exhibit outstanding initiative and demonstrate a strong commitment to service to the CU and Boulder communities. An active member of CU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, she earned mention for the second time on the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team, given to those who maintain a cumulative 3.5 grade point average and participate in the RMISA Championships. At CU’s annual banquet, she was honored with the Laura Sharpe Flood Award, given to the skier who best exemplifies the spirit, enthusiasm and dedication, both on and off the mountain and in the classroom of the late Laura Flood, who tragically lost her life on April 3, 1989 on an early morning training run at Eldora Mountain Resort.

2013 (Freshman)—Wise came is as one of four newcomers to the women’s alpine team in 2013 and she participated in all 12 races leading up to the NCAA Championships. She finished nine of those with four top 20 finishes, two each in giant slalom and slalom action. She began the year off well with two straight top 20 finishes in giant slalom at Eldora, the first for a RMISA Qualifier race and then for the Colorado Invitational. She then had her best slalom performances at New Mexico, where she took home a 17th place and 20th place finish. One of the top student-athletes on CU’s campus, she earned mention on the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team for attaining a 3.5 GPA and participating in the RMISA Championships and she also earned mention on CU’s 4.0 Club.

Club—Wise participated on the Mission Ridge Ski Team since 2002 and the Pacific Northwest Elite Alpine Ski Team since 2009, where she was the 2010 giant slalom champion and the Northwest Skier of the Year. She won the Mission Ridge Ski Team Sportsmanship Award in both 2010 and ’12 and was a MRST Scholar Athlete with High Honors from 2006-10. She was the MSRT Most Improved skier in 2009 and Most Inspirational in 2006. She was on the PNSA Honor Roll from 2006-10. She has participated in FIS races since 2008 and has 147 races to her credit, finishing 113 of them with 66 top 20, 41 top 10, 20 top five, 13 podium appearances and four victories. She won a giant slalom race and slalom race at Mt. Hood in February 2010, a slalom junior race in March 2010 and a Super G race in Schweitzer, Idaho, in 2011. She has 17 North American Cup starts with 13 finishes.

High School—Wise graduated from Wenatchee High School in Wenatchee, Wash., in June 2010, with a perfect 4.0 grade point average as the school’s valedictorian. She was an AP Scholar with honors in 2010 when she was also a recipient of the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship, won a Washington State Honors Award and Washington State Principal Scholars Award and won her high school award for outstanding academic excellence in AP Human Geography and AP Statistics. In 2009, she was a National Merit Scholarship Board Commended Scholar and won the President’s Outstanding Academic Excellence Award in 2006.

In the Classroom—Wise is majoring in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado. She is a recipient of the Presidential Scholarship from CU in 2011. She was valedictorian of Wenatchee High School in 2010 and was also a national merit finalist her junior year. She would like to enter medical school after graduation to be an orthopedic surgeon. At CU she earned a spot on the CU 4.0 Club and was named to the Division I National All-Academic Ski Team as a freshman.

Personal—Clare Elizabeth Wise was born Oct. 14, 1992, in Richland, Wash., to Barry and Jill Wise. She enjoys running, yoga, baking, hiking and reading and chose CU because of the ski program and engineering school. She was a member of the National Honors Society in 2009-10, the Random Acts of Kindness Club from 2009-10 and the French Club from 2009-10.