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Posted: Mar 22, 2021

Clare Egan '10 Qualifies for 2022 U.S. Olympic Team

Egan returned to Wellesley to speak with students, faculty, and staff, following her first Olympic experience in 2018 (Miranda Yang).
Egan returned to Wellesley to speak with students, faculty, and staff, following her first Olympic experience in 2018 (Miranda Yang).

WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Wellesley's first U.S. Winter Olympian is on pace to be its next. Clare Egan '10, a former cross country and track & field student-athlete and founder of the Nordic Skiing Club at Wellesley College, is one of the first Americans to qualify for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

Per NBC Sports: Egan and U.S. Biathlon teammate Susan Dunklee earned their places on the Olympic team as the lone U.S. female biathletes to earn multiple individual top-12 World Cup or world championships finishes this season. Egan's top individual finish at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games was 61st in the Women's 7.5km Sprint. She is currenlty the top-ranked U.S. female biathlete for the second time in three years, placing 36th in the overall World Cup standings. The duo are the first athletes to qualify for 2022 U.S. Olympic team.

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.

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games are scheduled to take place February 4-20, 2022.

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