Completed Event: Skiing versus UNH Day 1 (EISA Championship) on February 21, 2025 , , 1st of 14 (515)
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Ava Thurston
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Height:
- 5-6
- Hometown:
- Waterbury, Vt.
- High School:
- Harwood Union
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First-Team All-America (2025 CL)
All-East First Team (2023, 2025)
2x All-America Second Team (2023 CL; 2023 FS, 2025 FS)
USCSA National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team (2023)
2x EISA Women’s Nordic Skier of the Week (Feb. 13, 2023; March 1, 2023)
JUNIOR (2025)
Competed in every carnival for the Big Green... Started season with first place finish in Bates 15K freestyle and third place in the sprint... Finished on the podium in all but two EISA races... Won five races: Bates 15K Freestyle, Dartmouth 7.5K Freestyle, Middlebury Freestyle Sprint, St. Michael's 3x5 Classic Relay, and the Middlebury 10K classic... Earned the most EISA freestyle points over the course of the season... Finished in the top ten in both NCAA Championship races... Earned Second-Team All-America in 20K freestyle (7th) and First-Team All-America in 7.5K Classic (4th).
SOPHOMORE (2024)
Finished twelfth in the 20K Classic and earned a top 20 finish in the 7.5k freestyle at the NCAA Championship ... Won the 20k women's classic mass start at the EISA Championship ... Placed on the podium in the 7.5k freestyle at the Colby Carnival and the classic sprint at the Vermont Carnival.
FIRST-YEAR (2023)
Finished in the top 10 at the NCAA Skiing Championships in both the freestyle and classic races to earn All-America Second Team honors in both events … raced in four EISA carnivals, reaching the podium in seven of her eight races while placing fifth in the other … won her last three classic races leading into the NCAA Championships … best freestyle finish came at Williams, taking second in the 5K … named the EISA Female Nordic Skier of the Week twice, after Harvard (Feb. 13) and the EISA Championships (March 1) … also the DartmouthSports.com Female Athlete of the Week following NCAAs … took gold at the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships in the junior women’s 10K classic and skied at the FIS World Junior and U23 Championships as well.
BEFORE DARTMOUTH
Attended Harwood Union from 2018-2022 ... won the individual D2 state titles in cross country, and Nordic freestyle and classic every year of her high school career … cross country team won the team title in three of her four years as well … made the Vermont all state teams for Nordic in 2019-2022, cross country in 2018-2021 and lacrosse in 2022 … captained the cross country team her final two years.
PERSONAL
Full name is Ava Elizabeth Thurston ... born on January 6, 2004 in Burlington, Vermont ... daughter of Thomas Thurston and Heidi Hill has one sister ... interested in reading, hiking, listening to music and podcasts ... can ride a unicycle.
John Steel Hagenbuch - 2025 7.5K Classic National Champion
Thursday, March 06
2024 Dartmouth Skiing Season Review: Big Green Back on Track
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Jasmine Drolet after Winning National Championship in 20K Classic, Mar. 9, 2024
Saturday, March 09
John Steel Hagenbuch after Winning National Championship in 7.5K Freestyle, Mar. 7, 2024
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