Aurora Cramer

Personal

Hobbies include running, mountain biking, hiking, drawing, painting and other outdoor activities such as fishing and backpacking...Family includes parents Jeff and Cheryl Cramer and younger brother Grayson...Competed in competitive soccer from first grade through sophomore year of high school...Played volleyball, tennis, and ran track and cross country for school teams throughout junior high and high school...Introduced to Nordic skiing at the age of 2, but did not train or compete seriously until age 16...First tried biathlon in June of 2020, through coach Eric Reynolds with the Bogus Basin Nordic Team...Graduated from Timberline High School in May 2021, and moved to Sun Valley a week later to begin a gap year training with the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Postgraduate team...Plans on attending college in Fall 2022, with the intended major of Molecular Biology or Neuroscience and goal of becoming a medical doctor

Career Highlights

• 2022 IBU Junior Open European Championships (Pokljuka, Slovenia): 45th in pursuit
• 2022 IBU Junior Cup (Pokljuka, Slovenia): 25th & 36th in sprints, 9th in mixed relay (w/ Wes Campbell, Nikolas Burkhart & Cheresa Bouley)
• Member of Team USA for the 2022 Junior IBU Cup and Junior Open European Championships
• Qualified as the 2nd overall Junior at 2021 US Youth and Junior World Trials, and 1st Youth (2nd overall 7.5K Sprint, 3rd overall 10K Normalized Pursuit, 1st overall 6K Sprint)
• Top-15 in Junior Women’s 7.5K Skate Mass Start at 2022 XC Senior Nationals
• 2021 US Biathlon Nationals, Youth classification (2nd Place 6K Sprint, 4th Place 8K Normalized Pursuit, 3rd Place Super Sprint)
• Qualification for the Intermountain Division team for the 2021 XC Junior Nationals, though cancelled due to COVID-19