CU Ski Team Visits White House For College Champions Day

About 20 members of the 2024 NCAA Championship Ski team were in attendance for the Buffaloes along with six coaches and staff members.  The day began with a tour of the White House and culminated with speeches from NCAA Senior Vice President of Championships Lynda Taeler and Vice President Kamala Harris.

The tour began in the Entrance Hall included the State Dining Room, the Red Room, the Blue Room, the Green Room and finally the East Room on the main level before heading downstairs to the White House Library, the China Room and the Vermell Room. After going through the East Colonnade, the tour concluded on the South Lawn, where there was a volleyball net and cornhole before the speeches began.

Each team had one athlete selected to appear on the stage behind the speakers, and the honor was bestowed to Magnus Boee for the Buffaloes, and he ended up getting a prime location behind the speakers for a widely televised speech from Vice President Harris.

“It was pretty cool to talk with other athletes,” Boee said. “I spoke with some of the people who work at the White House. It was fun to be a part of the magnitude, we had to line up perfectly, there was no messing around.  At first I didn’t think about where I was standing, then I saw the podium just to the right of me, I was thinking I may be in the frame.  I was just thinking ‘let’s keep this setup,’ because they were moving people around. I got a message from my dad and from a lot of people I haven’t talked to in a long time who saw me on CNN.”