Rose McGrandle applied for the nationwide talent search Girls4Gold in 2008 and was selected for the sport of skeleton, in which she finally gained her first experience in 2009. She competed in her first international races at the start of the 2010/11 European Cup . In her first race in Cesana in November 2010 , she finished eighth and immediately made it into the top ten. A day later she was sixth in the same place. The final breakthrough came in the two following races in Igls , where she finished second behind Elizabeth Yarnold and ahead of Laura Deas . At the next race in Winterberg she also achieved a podium finish with second place behind Deas and ahead of Yarnold. A fourth place on the podium in the seventh race of the season after consistently results among the top eight followed in December of that year behind Sarah Sartor and Tina Hermann with third place in Altenberg . In the overall standings, she took fourth place. In January 2011 she also started the last two races of the season in the Intercontinental Cup in Lake Placid and was fifth twice.
In winter 2011/12 she started again in the Intercontinental Cup and celebrated her first victory in the fourth race of the season in Sigulda . She then took part in four races of the European Cup and celebrated two victories in Igls and Winterberg. In February 2012 she was second and three times winner in the second half of the season of the Intercontinental Cup, whereupon she won the overall standings in front of Donna Creighton and Sophia Griebel . At the Skeleton World Championship in Lake Placid in 2012 , she finished 16th. In the following season, she was also used in the Intercontinental Cup , drove in Whistler in 3rd place and also came third in the overall standings.
Rose McGrandle started the 2013/14 season with two wins in the Intercontinental Cup , whereupon she made her World Cup debut in Winterberg in January 2014 , which she finished in 10th place. At the European Championships she was eighth; she could not qualify for the 2014 Olympic Games . At the beginning of the winter of 2014/15 McGrandle was again only at the start in the Intercontinental Cup and was once first and twice second in the first three races of the season. In the Skeleton World Cup 2014/15 , she started with two sixth places in Lake Placid and Calgary . In February 2015 she finished 3rd in Igls, her first podium finish in the World Cup and at the same time won bronze at the European Championship . In the overall World Cup ranking she achieved the best result of her career with seventh place. McGrandle finished ninth at the 2015 Skeleton World Championship . In September 2015, her retirement from competitive sports was announced.
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