Karen Annette Budge (born November 14, 1949) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.

At the 1972 Winter Olympics she placed 14th in the downhill and 23rd in the giant slalom events.

[1] Born and raised in Jackson, Wyoming, Budge married Gordi Eaton, a former alpine ski racer and coach.

[1][2] At the 1968 Winter Olympics in France, eighteen-year-old Budge was testing her wax on a practice course an hour before the women's downhill at Chamrousse, and narrowly avoided a full collision with a member of the Moroccan men's team, Said Housni, who had been warned once before to stay off the hill.

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