Caroline Løvhaug Harrison sits in a category that remains thin in Norwegian BJJ: women holding purple belt or above and teaching regularly at one of the country's major academies. She trains at Frontline Academy Hasle in Oslo and teaches both youth and adult BJJ classes.
Her competition record includes gold at the Herjer BJJ Open 2018 in the Adult Open Weight division — an absolute win that says more about her on-mat tenacity than her division titles do. Outside the academy she has ten-plus years of experience as a yoga instructor and is completing a bachelor's degree in coaching and sports psychology at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (NIH).
For Frontline Hasle, her presence at the front of a class is one of the practical ways the academy keeps women coming in the door and staying long enough to reach the higher belts themselves.