DENVER – The University of Denver ski team had six student-athletes named to the 2026 College Sports Communicators’ Academic All-District Men’s and Women’s At-Large Teams, with Adrian Minde Hunshammer, Mia Hunt, Sondre Oestervold, Sara Rask, Nicola Rountree-Williams and Christian Soevik all earning honors for their performance on the snow and in the classroom.
CSC Academic All-District Teams recognize the top student-athletes in the nation based on their combined athletic and academic performances. Hunt and Rask both earned All-District honors last season, with Rask also being recognized on the 2025 CSC Academic All-America First Team.
To be eligible for CSC Academic All-District honors, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade-point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his/her current institution. Nominated student-athletes must have participated in at least 90 percent of their team’s games this season or started 66 percent of the games.
All schools were limited to six nominees each for the Men’s and Women’s At-Large Academic All-Districts Team, which includes athletes from the NCAA sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, volleyball, water polo and wrestling. The Pioneers’ six student-athletes on the All-District Teams are the fifth-most among all skiing programs in the nation and the third-most in the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association (Alaska Anchorage, 10; Nevada, 7).
Hunshammer produced a career season as a senior with the Pioneers, placing in the top 10 in 11 of the 14 races he finished (16 total events), which included recording his first career top-fives (four) and his first collegiate podium. He earned his first career All-American award by being named to the second team after placing eighth in giant slalom at the NCAA Championships on March 11 in Utah. The Skedsmokorset, Norway, native picked up his first career podium finish by coming in third in GS at the Colorado Invitational on Jan. 15 at Aspen Highlands, which was part of four consecutive top-10 results in the state to start the year.
Hunt had the best season of her career as a senior, which featured six podiums and a pair of first-team All-American awards at the NCAA Championships. Hunt placed in the top 20 in 11 of the 12 events she participated in, and each of her six top-10 finishes saw her end up on the podium. Competing in her hometown of Park City, Utah, for the national championships, she produced her first career podium in giant slalom with a third-place finish on March 11. Hunt wrapped up her collegiate career at the NCAA Championships on March 13 by placing second in slalom, marking her fourth podium and third runner-up placement in the last five events of the campaign.
Oestervold recorded three top-10 finishes, six top-15s and placed in the top 20 nine times in 10 races during his only collegiate season with the Pioneers. The graduate student earned one top-five finish by coming in fifth in the Denver Invitational’s Nordic 10K classic on Feb. 7 and posted back-to-back, top-10 results by coming in ninth in the 7.5K freestyle on Feb. 8 to close the Pioneers’ home meet. From Kristiansand, Norway, Oestervold qualified for the NCAA Championships and posted two top-20 finishes at the even in Utah, including 12th in the Nordic 7.5K classic.
Rask led the Pioneers with five wins, eight podium finishes and 10 top-five results while finishing 12-of-15 races during her final collegiate campaign. The Stockholm, Sweden, native totaled three victories in slalom and two in giant slalom while placing on the podium four times in each discipline. Rask set the school record for the most career individual victories during the season with 20, as she broke Roberta Pergher’s (women’s alpine) overall wins record at DU with her 19th career victory on Feb. 23 at RMISA Alpine Qualifier giant slalom in Utah. She qualified for her fourth NCAA Championships and finished her collegiate career by placing in the top 20 in 50-of-56 overall races (51 finishes), earning 48 top-10 results, coming in the top-five 41 times and picking up 35 podium spots.
Rountree-Williams registered four top-10 finishes and finished 12-of-14 races during her final collegiate season and second with the Pioneers. From Edwards, Colorado, Rountree-Williams qualified for her second NCAA Championships and served as an alternate for the event. She began her senior campaign with a season-best result in slalom by coming in ninth in the Denver Invitational at Loveland Ski Area on Jan. 12. Her best results in giant slalom came with a pair of eight-place results in Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe in Renoe at the RMISA Alpine Qualifier and Nevada Invite on Feb. 2-3.
Soevik recorded a career high with 10 top-10 finishes in his senior campaign, with five such results in both slalom and giant slalom. He earned a pair of second-team All-American honors after qualifying for his second NCAA Championships, placing ninth in giant slalom on March 11 and seventh in slalom on March 13. Soevik registered a season best with his only top-five finish of the campaign in fourth in the RMISA Alpine Qualifier slalom at Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe in Nevada on Jan. 31. From Oslo, Norway, Soevik also competed at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Italy, representing his birth country of Brazil.
All six of Denver’s skiers were also recognized on the 2026 National Collegiate All-Academic Ski Team for competing during the season and for registering a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or better.
Hunshammer, Hunt, Rask and Soevik have also been named finalists for this year’s CSC Academic All-America awards and will advance to the national ballot to be voted on by CSC members. This year’s All-America honorees will be announced next month, with the women on July 7 and the men on July 8.
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