Marguerite (Margie) Thorp
’11

Hometown: Denver, CO
High School: Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s School, Salt Lake City, UT
House: Eliot
Concentration: Social Studies
Favorite Book: Mountains Beyond Mountains
Favorite Ski Area: Keystone, CO or Snowbasin, UT
Favorite Movie: Gladiator
Favorite Athlete: Emi Briggs
Favorite Harvard Skiing legend: Tim’s trips to Dunkin’ Donuts (surely fiction!)
Favorite Former Mens’ Team Captain: sorry, Kinner…
Skiing Highlights: Alpine — J2 Nationals (2005 – i.e. a million years ago), RMD Junior Olympic team (even longer…), 3rd place in the GS at J3 Junior Olympics (more epic than World Cup – seriously); Skicross — two World Cup starts (2008, 2009), 2nd place Europa Cup 2006-2007)

I suppose I went too many years of ski racing without major injuries, because I’ve really made up for it recently: a crash at Jiminy Peak last February has left me with a huge chunk of metal in one knee and a new ACL in the other (I like to think of them as an expansion pack).  I won’t be doing much skiing this year, but I’ll be making up for it by snowshoeing up to the finish, cheering wildly, bringing the team hot cocoa, and assuming other mom duties — they don’t call me Margamom for nothing.

After witnessing the Harvard Ski Team’s best year in history (get ready!) I’ll be graduating this spring, and while applying to medical school for entrance in 2012, I hope to work in Boston as a “community organizer” of sorts (thank goodness for Barack Obama who made community organizing into a glamorous, parentally acceptable occupation).  In my free time, I satisfy my addictions to Farmville and wedding planning.