Lucy Bruns
Our Athlete of the Week is Lucy Bruns, a Freshman at Castro Valley High School who is a nationally-ranked freestyle and moguls skier. Lucy comes from a family of skiers and started skiing when she was about 2 years old. She joined the NorthStar Freestyle team at age 10, loving to ski “bumps” but was not sure what a mogul course was. She began training with the team, traveling up and back every weekend. Winter training turned into summer training as well. Lucy trains on water ramps at Utah Olympic Park in Park City, and on snow at Mt. Hood in Government Camp, Oregon, and in Whistler, Canada. She sacrifices every weekend from November to April and most of her summer for her sport. Lucy’s first podium was at Palisades Tahoe in 2021. She qualified for US Junior National Championships in 2022 in Park City. This year, she got a spot on the US Ski Team Selections. She recently brought her backflip to the competition course and placed 9th overall at Snowbird, Utah, in February. She competed at the 2023 US Ski & Snowboard Junior Nationals last week and just got her first invitation to the 2023 US Ski Team National Championships at Waterville, New Hampshire, this week.
