FAIRBANKS - The Alaska Nanooks Nordic ski team is excited to welcome Luise Graef to Fairbanks for the 2023-24 season. Graef hails from Oberhof, Germany, and will ski in the blue and gold. 

"We are so excited to bring Luise on to the team. She brings a high level of experience to Fairbanks after racing internationally as a junior athlete with the German National Team." Said head coach Eliska Albrigsten. "We have a long history of success with student-athletes from Germany, including Anni Uhl, Max Olex, Marius Korthauer, Alex Eckert, Michael Fehrenbach, and current Nanook skier, Philipp Moosmayer. We look forward to watching her make her own mark on Nanook Skiing!"

Graef is a 5'3" incoming freshman who had two top-10 finishes at German Nationals in 2022 in Oberhof. In the junior division in the 5k classic individual start, she finished 10th out of 52, and in the 10k freestyle mass start, she was 10th out of 49.

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