School Record 15 Named All-RMISA

DENVER – A school record 15 Colorado Buffaloes Ski Team members earned All-RMISA honors, including seven on the first team, the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association announced Wednesday.

The total matches that of a season ago, which set the CU record. Prior to last season, the record was 13 skiers in 1995 and 2012. This is the second straight season and the second time in program history that all 12 skiers selected to compete at the NCAA Championships earned All-RMISA honors.

Louison Accambray, Tilde Baangman, Jacob Dilling, Louis Fausa, Magdalena Luczak, Astri Lunde, and Filip Wahlqvist are the seven first-team honorees. The second-team honorees include Justin Bigatel, Ashley Campbell, Johannes Flaaten, Hugo Hinckfuss, Will Koch, and Etienne Mazellier. CU's Hanna(h)'s were named honorable mention with Hanna Abrahamsson and Hannah Saethereng picking up the honor.

The seven first-team honors are the most since 2020, and the last time CU had more was in 2009 when eight Buffs were honored. Before the last two seasons, the last time as many as 10 skiers earned league honors was in 2018.

Abrahamsson has five top-10 finishes and a podium appearance in the classic race at the DU Invitational.

Accambray has finished 10 of 12 races this season, all in the top eight. She won three GS races this season and had four podium finishes in GS and another podium in slalom, where she had three top-5 finishes.

Baangman has four career wins and 16 career podium appearances, five of which came this season. Each of the five was a second-place finish, with three in classic and two in freestyle races.

Bigatel finished his first season in Boulder, by winning 10 of 12 races, steadily improving throughout the season. In fact, he finished his season with his first two podium appearances, taking second and third in consecutive days as part of the UAA Invitational and RMISA Championships.

Campbell finished the season by winning two podiums in six of 12 races, finishing third in the first two slalom races, and finishing in the top 15 in all six races, four of which were in the top 10.

Dilling finished his final season in Boulder,, finishing nine of 12 races. In the second half, he regained the form he displayed throughout his career. He finished the season with six top-10 and two top-5 finishes, both podiums, and one race win, an emotional GS victory in Alaska on the one-year anniversary of his father's passing.

Fausa had his best collegiate season in his fifth season in Boulder and entering NCAAs has finished 11 of 12 races with three wins, all in GS, and six top-five finishes, two of which came in slalom. He finished the last 10 races, nine times in the top 10.

Flaaten has finished in the top 13 in nine of 10 finishes, which includes six top 10 and two podium appearances, including his first college win in the classic race at the Denver Invitational.

Hinckfuss took advantage of his four starts this season. He finished third and fourth to open the season in Alaska at the U.S. National Championships. He returned to Anchorage for the RMISA Championships, where he finished 13th in the classic race but rebounded for a second-place finish in the freestyle race.

Koch skied in the first three meets before traveling to Europe to participate in the U23 World Championships as well as other high-level races, and he didn't disappoint, finishing in the top five in all six races with two podiums, one each in classic and freestyle.

Luczak joined the Buffs for the recent Alaska series, winning both GS and fourth and sixth in her two slalom races. She is the defending individual champion in both disciplines and already has three individual NCAA championships.

Lunde first collegiate season has seen her finish in the top 10 in each of her eight starts with six top-5 finishes, including three podiums, two in classic and one in a freestyle race.

Mazellier has finished in the top 10 in each of his six finished races out of eight starts. He had his first collegiate win in the GS race at Utah and two other podium appearances, taking second and third to open the season in a pair of slalom races.

Saethereng finished her career in Boulder after four seasons at Westminster College and was impressive until suffering a season-ending injury in a GS race ahead of the Utah Invitational in Park City. She finished the first five races of the season with top 10 finishes in her two GS races, including one fourth place finish.

Walhqvist won all five slalom races in the regular season before a DNF at the RMISA Championships ended a seven-race win streak. He has finished 11 of 12 races this season, all in the top 10 and eight in the top 5, with five race wins.

Players Mentioned

Hanna Abrahamsson

Louison Accambray

Tilde Baangman

Justin Bigatel

Ashley Campbell

Jacob Dilling

Louis Fausa

Johannes Flaaten

Hugo Hinckfuss

Will Koch

Magdalena Luczak

Astri Lunde

Etienne Mazellier

Hannah Saethereng

Filip Wahlqvist

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