Denise Dingsleder

Position:
Alpine
Height:
5-6
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Imst Pitztal, Austria
High School:
Schigymnasium Stams
Prev School:
SV Arzl/Westminster

Honors

First-Team All-American (2024 GS)
Second-Team All-RMSIA (2024)
RMISA Skier of the Meet (2024 RMISA Championships)
CUSPY Female Newcomer of the Year (2024)
National All-Academic Ski Team (2024; 3.5 Cumulative GPA)
Pac-12 Winter Honor Roll (2024)
Three-Time CU Athlete of the Week (Jan. 21, 2024; Feb. 25, 2024; March 11, 2024)
Lucie Hanusova Award (2024)
Letterwinner (2024)

At Colorado: 2024 (Graduate)—A one-year wonder for the Buffs after using her final season of eligibility after transferring from Westminster, she made the most of her final season by finishing 12 of 14 and being a key member in the Buffs' run to the NCAA Championship. In those 12 finishes, she was in the top 20 11 times with seven top 10 and four top 5 finishes, including three podiums and a race win. Her win came at the RMISA Championships, making her the individual RMSIA Champion in the GS and she also took second in that race behind teammate Magdalena Luczak to give CU a 1-2 finish and she picked up first-team All-America honors in the process. She also hit the podium in third place in a qualifier race ahead of the RMISA Championships, meaning she finished 3-1-2 in her final three collegiate GS races. She was also named All-RMISA.

At Westminster College—She skied for three seasons at Westminter College, 2021-23, and started 37 races, finishing 28 with 27 top 20, 19 top 10 and 10 top five finishes including five podium appearances and two race wins. In her first college season in 2021, she finished just four of 10 races but in the past two seasons she has finished 24 of 27 with 23 in the top 20, 18 in the top 10 and nine in the top five including four podiums and two wins. She was the 2022 RMISA GS Individual Champion and picked up two All-America honors at the NCAA Championships, skiing sixth in the GS for a second-team honor and fifth in the slalom for a first-team honor. Her slalom races in 2022 included two wins, four podiums and six top five finishes in six races finished out of seven.

Prior To College—She skied for Tiroler Skiverb for coach SV Arzi where she obtained multiple top five results in the Austrian Junior Championships. She earned three medals at the World University Games in Kransnojarsk, Russia, in 2019-20 and in 2021-22, she ranked as high as the Top 100 skiers in the world in slalom. She has more than 20 continental cup starts on the Nor-Am and European Cup circuits and has two top five slalom finishes on the Nor-Am circuit. She has more than 25 starts in national championships and her highlights include a third place podium finish in the slalom at the 2019 Austrian National Championships and ninth place slalom finish in the 2022 US National Championships. In FIS sanctioned races, she has finished over 200 in the top 30 including 96 in the top 10 with 31 total podium appearances including 11 race wins dating back to the 2015 season.

High School—She graduated from Schigynasium Stams in Stams, Austria, in 2017.

In the Classroom—She is earning a masters degree in Finance from Colorado after graduating from Westminster College with a Business degree as a six-time Dean’s List member.

Personal—Her birthday is Jan. 30 and she was born in Zams, Austria. Her parents are Mario and Sylvia Dingsleder and she has one brother, Marco. She enjoys hiking and biking and she loves to design and sew her own clothes. During the COVID Pandemic, she volunteered sewing masks.

Why CU—She chose CU because of the ski team and the school.