Cassidy GRAY

Canada

Alpine Skiing

Date of Birth: 25 Jan 2001

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Place of birth: CALGARY, AB

Birth Country:

Canada

Residence: INVERMERE, BC

Residence Country:

Canada

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Alpine Skiing	Women's Giant Slalom	DNF
	Mixed Team Parallel CAN Canada	9

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre - Technical	Women's Giant Slalom Run 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

World Championship
Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
7	Team Parallel Mixed	2021	Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA
23	Giant Slalom Ladies	2021	Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA	2:36.26

World Cup Rankings
Season	All	Giant Slalom
2020/2021	114	52

World Cup - Best Achievements
Season	Giant Slalom
2021/2022	1 x 58th
2020/2021	1 x 26th

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location
58	Giant Slalom	2021/2022	Courchevel, FRA

Nickname:

Cass.

Hobbies:

Cycling, hiking. "I love being outside, being in the mountains." (cubuffs.com; Girls Fast Forward Facebook, 9 Feb 2021)

Occupation:

Athlete

Education:

Integrative physiology - University of Colorado (USA).

Family:

Father, Rob Gray. Mother, Joanne Gray. Brothers, Brody, Dylan and Tayton. Sisters, Jacquelyn and Zoe.

Languages spoken:

English

Club name:

Team Panorama (BC, CAN)

Other sports:

Has been an avid football (soccer) player and a volunteer coach for three years.

Debut:

2017 FIS event in Norquay (Slalom - 2nd)
2021 World Cup in Kranjska Gora (Giant slalom - DNF2)

National team:

2021

Start:

She started skiing at a small hill with a magic carpet in Calgary. The first time she took a chairlift she didn’t know how to get off. Her family then moved to Invermore, BC where she joined Team Panorama when she was was seven, later graduating up to the Alberta Ski Team in 2019. She joined Alpine Canada’s NextGen program in 2018. (cubuffs.com; Girls Fast Forward Facebook, 9 Feb 2021)

Reason:

“I really enjoyed it and my parents saw that. Pretty much from the first year I started in Team Pano I just loved it.” (cubuffs.com)

Memorable:

Winning the national collegiate giant slalom title in her first season with the Colorado Buffaloes in March 2021. (cubuffs.com)

Award:

Named a first-team All-America selection (2020/21).
Colorado Buffaloes' Dick Schoenberger Award (2020/21).
University of Colorado's Female Freshman of the Year Award (2020/21).
Finalist for Female Athlete of the Year (2020/21).
Collegiate Skier of the Year by the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame (2020/21).

General Interest

FIRST NATIONS TRIBUTE
During the 2021/22 season, she is paying tribute to the Columbia Valley in Canada where she grew up. Her home is on the unceded territory of the Secwepemc, Ktunaxa, and Niitsitapi people, three bands that have been supportive of her as a young ski racer. Her helmet features a salmon and is designed by Trinda Cote, a member of the Shuswap Band. (alpinecanada.org)

FUTURE PLANS
Graduated from David Thompson Secondary School in Invermere in 2019 where she was an honour roll student. She is now enrolled at the University of Colorado (USA) where she plans to major in integrative physiology, hoping to go into the medical field, but is taking a break from her studies for the Olympic season. (cubuffs.com)

WORLD CUP DEBUT
In her World Cup debut weekend in January 2021 at Kranjska Gora, she finished 26th in her second race. She ended her season with a 27th in giant slalom at Jasna in March 2021. "Right off the bat it was really crazy - all of these people I’ve been watching on TV are now right next to me. I was almost star struck. Just such tough conditions like the pitch, the icy surface. But I just tried my best. Honestly, it was such a cool weekend - so many things I had waited for for so many years happened on those days.” (Alpine Canada YouTube, 25 Jan 2021)

Milestones

At her debut World Championships in 2021, finished 23rd in giant slalom and took seventh with Canada in the team parallel event.

She finished 20th in super-G and 21st in giant slalom at the 2020 Junior World Championships in Narvik.

In her World Cup debut weekend in January 2021 at Kranjska Gora, she finished 26th in her second race. She ended her season with a 27th in giant slalom at Jasna in March 2021.

She won the Canadian giant slalom national title in November 2020 at her home ski area of Panorama.

In her freshman year skiing for the Colorado Buffaloes, she picked up a collegiate giant slalom victory in February 2021 at Park City and went on to win the individual national giant slalom title in March 2021 at Franconia.

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Legend

DNF:: Did Not Finish

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