Three Alpine Buffs Earn RMISA MVP Honors

DENVER – Three Colorado skiers, Louison Accambray, Louis Fausa and Filip Wahlqvist, won RMISA MVP honors on the alpine side as the top skiers in their discipline throughout the 2025 regular season. Accambray won for women's GS, Fausa for men's GS and Wahlqvist for men's slalom as the Buffaloes picked up three of the four alpine honors.

From 2006-2020, the RMISA honored four skiers a year as MVP, combining disciplines, and starting in 2021, the league began to recognize MVP's by each discipline, honoring eight skiers a year. Since 2006, CU has racked up 26 such honors, and nine since it was broken down by discipline five years ago. This is the first time three Buffs have been honored as MVP.

Accambray had a stellar open to her collegiate career and finished the season winning of her first four GS races and taking third in the other. She closed the regular season with a fourth place finish at the UAA Invitational. She finished with 185 out of a possible 200 points in the MVP standings, easily taking the title by 40 points over second place. She had clinched the titled before even skiing in the final race of the season at UAA.

Fausa saved his best collegiate skiing for last, in his fifth season he won two GS races in the regular season. He held a healthy lead in the MVP standings entering the final race at UAA, but a mistake on his second run moved him into a tie for 18th. Utah's Johs Herland was able to catch him and the two finished the season with exactly 152 points. Essentially if Fausa had finished that last race even one-hundredth of a second slower, he would not have been named MVP.

Wahlqvist repeats as the men's slalom MVP, becoming the fifth skier to earn multiple MVP honors, first accomplished by Lucie Zikova, CU's only three-time winner in women's alpine from 2006-08, Maria Grevsgaard (Women's Nordic, 2006, '08), Magnus Boee (2021 CL, FS) and Filip Forejtek (Men's GS, 2021-22).

He put together the first perfect regular season in men's alpine history at CU, winning all five slalom races in the regular season and putting together a 160-0 record against the field in those races. In the history of the RMISA MVP honor, he is just the second skier to post a perfect MVP score along with Utah's Wilhelm Normannseth, who won every slalom race in 2023. Normannseth finished tied for third on this season's slalom list.

Players Mentioned

Louison Accambray

Magnus Boee

Louis Fausa

Filip Wahlqvist

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