Clare Egan '10 will compete for Team USA next month in Beijing (Nordic Focus).
Clare Egan '10 will compete for Team USA next month in Beijing (Nordic Focus).
Posted: Jan 24, 2022

Clare Egan '10 Named to 2022 U.S. Winter Olympic Team

WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Clare Egan '10, a Wellesley College cross country and track & field alumna and founder of the Wellesley College Nordic Ski team, has officially been named to the 2022 United States Olympic Team for the Beijing Winter Games. Egan will compete in her second Olympics, representing the United States in the sport of biathlon.

Egan and U.S. Biathlon teammate Susan Dunklee were the first two Americans to qualify for the Beijing Olympic Games in March 2021. U.S. athletes will be seeking the country's first Olympic biathlon medal this winter in Beijing when biathlon is contested Feb. 5-19 at the National Biathlon Center in Zhangjikou, China. Egan's top individual finish at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games was 61st in the Women's 7.5km Sprint. 

Last Friday, Egan posted the second-best finish of her World Cup career with a fourth place result in the 15km Women's Individual competition in Antholz, Italy. Egan and her American teammates followed that result with a fifth-place finish in Saturday's 4x6-kilometer event at the BMW IBU World Cup in Antholz. It marked the best relay finish for the women's team in a World Cup since 1994.

Egan was Wellesley's first ever outdoor track & field All-American, when she finished sixth nationally in the 1,500m at the 2010 NCAA Division III Championships, and was the first Wellesley alumna to ever qualify for the Winter Olympic Games. She is the only runner in Wellesley cross country history to claim New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Runner of the Year, Rookie of the Year, and Seven Sisters Championship individual champion honors in the same season, doing so in 2006.

Egan went on to found the Wellesley Nordic Skiing club team and was the first athlete to represent Wellesley in NCAA Nordic skiing, competing in the NCAA Championships during her senior year. After graduating from Wellesley in 2010 with a degree in International Communication, she competed in Nordic Skiing for a year at the University of New Hampshire while working toward her graduate degree in Linguistics. She was named to the U.S. Biathlon team's World Championship team roster in 2015.

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