BOULDER – Freshman Magdalena Luczak and would-be sophomore Cass Gray are both in Soelden, Austria, where the 2021-22 World Cup season will commence this weekend with giant slalom races.
Luczak, a true freshman, is making her third start on the World Cup stage, and second in GS. She skied at Spindleruv Mlyn in the Czech Republic in March 2019. For Gray, who's taking this season off from CU to prepare for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, it's her fifth World Cup start with the other four all coming last year, all in GS at Kranjska Gora, Slovakia; Kronplatz, Italy and Jasna, Slovakia.