Nine Programs Reach National Postseason to Highlight 2024-25

• Denver men's soccer reached the College Cup for the second time in program history (2016) after earning the No. 3 overall seed and earning NCAA Tournament home wins over Gardner-Webb, No. 14 Indiana and UMass.
• The Pioneer hockey program made its 20th trip to the Frozen Four in April, including its sixth trip to the national semifinal in the last nine full seasons.
• When the hockey program reached the Frozen Four, the athletic department played in its fourth national semifinal in 12 months (hockey twice, men's lacrosse, men's soccer), tied for the fourth most in the country during that span (behind only UCLA, Stanford, Ohio State).
• Including the women's lacrosse Championship Weekend appearance in 2023, Denver ranked eighth in the country for the most different programs to make the national semifinals since January 1, 2023, with four.
• Denver Athletics finished with 104 home wins this season (104-39-4), the department's third-consecutive 100-win season in the Mile High City. Prior to 2022-23, Denver had just three 100-win home seasons total since turning Division I in 1998-99.
• Denver gymnastics was a perfect 10-0 at home which included Power-4 wins over Michigan, Missouri, Georgia, West Virginia, BYU and Arizona State.
• DU men's tennis was perfect at home for the second-consecutive season, going 13-0 at the Denver Tennis Park, combining with the women to go 20-1 at DTP this season.
• The Pioneers recorded 32 wins against Power-4 programs in the 2024-25 season, led by 13 from gymnastics, and five from both hockey and women's lacrosse.
• Senior Sara Rask swept the women's alpine races at the 2025 NCAA Skiing Championships, earning Denver's 97th and 98th individual national championships, and became the 19th skier in program history to sweep NCAA titles in the same championship.
• Denver's athletic programs combined for eight NCAA Tournament appearances, 108 all-conference selections, 14 All-Americans, four conference regular-season titles and six conference tournament championships.
• DU had six coaches earn conference coach of the year honors.
• The Pioneers collected conference regular-season titles from men's soccer, women's lacrosse and men's and women's tennis.
• Denver won conference tournament titles in men's and women's swimming and diving, women's golf, women's lacrosse and men's and women's tennis.
• Nordic skier Sidney Barbier was named the winner of the 2025 Honda Inspiration Award by the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards, recognizing a female collegiate athlete in NCAA Division I, II or III that has triumphed in the face of extraordinary physical and/or emotional adversity, injury, illness or personal sacrifice during her collegiate experience, and who has returned to achieve athletic success. See Barbier's story below.
• The prestigious Gold Vest was awarded to the gymnastics program at the 2025 Crimson Carpet Awards Night, given to the program that best exemplifies superior community service, leadership, academic achievement and spirit.
• Sam Bassett (men's soccer) and Sara Rask (women's alpine skiing) were named Denver's Male and Female Athletes of the Year.
• Russell Overly (men's lacrosse) and Cecilia Cooley (women's gymnastics) were awarded the Men's and Women's Comeback Player of the Year awards.
• Denver earned an A- rating from the Tucker Center, which represents the department having a significantly higher proportion of women in head coaching roles compared to its peers. The Pios have eight women in head coaching positions to lead its 18 varsity programs.
• For its record-setting national championship in 2024, Denver hockey and Denver athletics were awarded a City of Denver Tourism Star in March for having a signifcant impact on Denver's tourism industry during the 2024 calendar year.

Capturing the Conference

Many Pioneer teams extended impressive conference championship runs in 2024-25

• DU women's lacrosse won its fifth-straight BIG EAST Tournament title and its sixth conference tournament title overall.
• Denver women's golf won its sixth-straight Summit League Tournament Championship and its 20th conference title in the last 21 appearances.
• Denver women's swimming and diving won its 12th-straight Summit League Championship and its 14th conference championship in the last 15 years.
• The Pioneer men's swimming and diving program won its fourth-straight Summit League Championship and its 11th in the last 12 years.
• Denver women's tennis won its 11th-straight Summit League Championship.
• The Pios' men's tennis program claimed its second-straight title.
• Since turning DI in 1999, Denver's programs have combined to make 208 NCAA Tournament appearances and win 126 conference tournament titles and 95 regular season championships.

Community Focused

• Denver men's and women's swimming and diving partnered for the second-consecutive year with "No More Under," an organization that partners with groups to facilitate learn-to-swim programs for children. According to "No More Under," participation in formal swimming lessons can reduce the likelihood of drowning deaths by 88%.
• The entire athletic department once again participated in the Together for Colorado Toy Drive, in partnership with CBS Colorado. The drive encourages fan support to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Denver.
• Women's basketball spent the year partnering with the Sportswomen of Colorado, visiting schools and hosting a basketball clinic to welcome them to campus. The Pios also partnered with The Action Center in their adopt a family for Christmas program and partnered with Team Impact to host a teammate last season.
• Women's soccer hosted a 30-student clinic with U-Park Elementary at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium. The program also volunteered with Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver on National Girls and Women in Sports Day, running soccer drills for middle school students.

Pioneer Partnerships

• On June 3, Denver Athletics announced its new partnership with Under Armour, along with Game One, for UA to become the official athletic apparel supplier for the Pioneers. Along with the University's new partnership with Barnes and Noble College, UA will be able to provide a more expanded selection of officially licensed retail apparel for fans supporting the Pioneers.
• Denver Athletics extended its partnership with Sidearm Sports as its official athletic department website provider and will be launching a redesigned website in the summer of 2026.
• Denver Athletics partnered with the SOLON Corporation to expand its Ritchie Center Solar project. In total, 8,485 solar modules now power DU facilities—including 18 campus buildings and the Ritchie Center—supporting the University's long-term environmental goals. These installations combine to generate 3.3 megawatts (MW) of clean energy and are projected to produce more than 113 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) over the next 25 years.
• Playfly Sports/Denver Sports Properties provides Multimedia Rights and Sponsorship assistance to the department, bringing best practices from across the country to the DU campus. Denver Sports Properties provided sponsorship revenue growth of 6% in 2024-25 compared to the season prior. DSP Secured an exclusive multi-year bank partnership with Huntington Bank. The group also extended a multi-year exclusive automobile partnership with the Denver Area Toyota Dealers. DSP extended an exclusive health care partnership with Common Spirit Health. The Playfly arm signed 25 new sponsors to the corporate partner portfolio. DSP re-signed Altitude Sports as the television home (broadcast partner) of DU Athletics.

2024 Triathlon Highlights

• Defending individual national champion and sophomore Maira Carreau fought her way from 40th after the swim and through the field to earn a seventh-place finish to lead the Pioneers at the 2024 national championships.
• As a result of her performance at the championships, Carreau became Denver’s fourth multi-year All-American and first back-to-back first-team member.
• Denver finished fifth as a team at the 2024 national championships and has placed in the top five each year.
• The Pioneers got the job done in the classroom as well with seven triathletes earning Scholar All-American honors from the coaches’ association, the most in program history.
• During spring 2025 in the leadup to the fall championship season, Denver earned three individual victories at the 2025 Clermont Challenge.
• Sophomore Alex Campbell earned her second career victory with a win in the day one under-25 elite development race at the Clermont Challenge.
• Carreau won the under-25 elite development day two race at the challenge.
• Junior Elizabeth Harita won the super sprint for her first career victory as a Pioneer at the Clermont Challenge.
• Ahead of the 2025 fall campaign, head coach Barbara Perkins signed a multi-year contract extension.

2024 Women's Soccer Highlights

• Denver opened the season with a one-goal loss at home to eventual national champion North Carolina.
• The Pios continued non-conference play with a Power-4 come-from-behind road win at No. 24 Texas A&M, their first road win at a top-25 opponent since September 26, 2013, and their first-ever road win at an SEC opponent.
• DU finished 5-1-2 in Summit League play to earn the league’s No. 2 seed in the postseason.
• For the first time ever, Denver earned a road win at Summit League rival South Dakota State with its 2-1 victory on October 24.
• Ella Frost was named the Summit League Midfielder of the Year to highlight a group of eight on All-Summit League Teams.
• Frost and Riley Baker were named to the All-Summit League First Team, while Michaela McGowan and Hannah Tate earned All-Summit League Second Team honors.
• Frost (first) and Baker (second) were named to the United Soccer Coaches All-West Region teams.
• For their work in the classroom, Liv Moritz, Baker and Frost earned Academic All-Summit League honors.
• In August, DU women’s soccer was recognized for having the second-highest grade point average in the country in 2023-24 with a 3.81.

2024 Volleyball Highlights

• The Pioneers finished 13-15, including 7-9 in Summit League action.
• After a 0-3 start to the league campaign, the Pios rattled off four of the next five to get back in the mix in the Summit League standings.
• Denver earned a four-set win over North Dakota State to book a spot in the Summit League semifinals before falling to top-seed South Dakota State in a five-setter to close out the season.
• Graduate student and outside hitter Cassie Davis was named to the All-Summit League First Team after ranking second in the conference with 4.19 points per set during the league campaign.
• Grad middle blocker Molly Mirabelli was voted All-Summit League Honorable Mention, hitting .332 and averaging 1.18 blocks in her 100 sets played.
• Freshman Jamia Johnson was named to the league’s All-Freshman team.
• Davis represented the program on the Summit League Academic All-League team.

2024-25 Men's Basketball Highlights

• Denver finished 11-21 and 5-11 in Summit League play to earn the seventh seed for the second year in a row in the Summit League Tournament.
• The Pioneers season came to a close in the Summit League quarterfinals against St. Thomas.
• In April, Denver hired former Minnesota State Moorhead head coach Tim Bergstraser to take over the reigns of the program as the program’s 34th head coach.
• Sebastain Akins was named the 2024-25 Summit League Freshman of the Year, the first major award winner for the program since Chris Udofia was named Summit League Defensive Player of the Year in 2013-14. Akins was the third different DU student-athlete to earn a player of the year award at the conference level.
• Interim head coach Shammond Williams picked up his first career head coaching win in Denver’s 78-62 win over league preseason favorite South Dakota State, Denver’s second-consecutive year knocking off the preseason favorite in Hamilton.
• Denver completed a regular-season sweep of Oral Roberts, its first since defeating the Golden Eagles in all three meetings between the two programs in 2018.
• Incoming freshman Trajan Thompson was named a McDonalds All-American Nominee.
• Senior Pedro Lopez-Sanvicente represented the program on the 2024-25 Summit League All-Academic Team with his 3.62 grade point average in psychology, his second-consecutive league academic honor.

2024-25 Women's Basketball Highlights

• The Pios finished 9-21 and 2-14 in the Summit League before falling in the 8 vs. 9 game in Sioux Falls to Omaha.
• For her work on the court and in the classroom, Jordan Jones was named to the DI-AAA Scholar-Athlete Team.
• Jones set the program’s single-season scoring record, pouring in 597 points in her junior season.
• Jones went on to be named to the All-Summit League Second Team, her second all-league award in as many seasons.
• Classmates Angelina Robles and Emma Smith helped co-lead the Pios, averaging 9.8 and 9.6 points per game, respectively.
• Laia Monclova was voted to the Summit League’s All-Newcomer Team.
• Denver ended 2024 with its best stretch of basketball, winning three of four in Hamilton Gymnasium to close out the calendar year, including a victory over in-state foe Northern Colorado.

2024-25 Hockey Highlights

• In its national-title defense in 2024-25, Denver returned to the Frozen Four for the sixth time in the last nine seasons.
• On their path back to the national semifinals, the Pioneers defeated No. 2 seed Providence (5-1) and No. 1-overall seed Boston College (3-1) to punch their ticket to St. Louis.
• Jack Devine and Zeev Buium were named Hobey Baker Award top-10 finalists before Buium went on to be recognized as a Hobey Baker Hat Trick Finalist.
• Devine was just the third DU skater ever to lead the nation in scoring (57 points) while Buium tied for first in the country in points by a defenseman with 48.
• The Pios’ season came to an end in double overtime against eventual national champion and No. 1 seed Western Michigan in the Frozen Four semifinals.
• Denver finished the campaign 31-12-1 for its fourth-straight 30-win season to extend a program record streak. The Pioneers went 15-8-1 in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and finished 15-5-1 inside Magness Arena.
• The Pioneers had the best start in program history with wins in their first 12 games and continued a 21-game winning streak that began the previous season on March 9 and went through Nov. 16, 2024.
• The Crimson and Gold secured the Gold Pan for the sixth-straight year and the 19th time overall by winning the regular season series 3-1 over in-state rival Colorado College.
• Following the season, six Pioneers signed professional contracts in Aidan Thompson (Chicago - NHL), Devine (Florida - NHL), Buium (Minnesota) - NHL, Carter King (Calgary - NHL), Jared Wright (Los Angeles - NHL) and Matt Davis (San Jose Barracuda - AHL).
• Richard and Kitzia Goodman Head Hockey Coach David Carle signed a multi-year contract extension in May to remain behind the Pioneers' bench. Carle also led the U.S. to its second straight U20 gold medal at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship in December/January.
• In May, Carle became the first DU head coach to join the Gold Standard Giving Society.
• Buium won consecutive gold medals with the David Carle-coached Team USA squad at the 2025 World Juniors and also represented the United States after the season in May at the IIHF World Championship in Denmark and Sweden. Buium went on to help the USA end a 92-year drought by winning its first goal medal at the senior men's event since 1933.
• Denver had six student-athletes named to All-NCHC Teams in Buium (first), Devine (first), Thompson (second), King (third), Sam Harris (third) and Eric Pohlkamp (third).
• Buium was named the NCHC Player of the Year and repeated as the conference’s Offensive Defenseman of the Year.
• Davis was named the Senior Scholar-Athlete Award winner in the NCHC in 2024-25.
• For his work in the classroom, Boston Buckberger was recognized as the NCAA Elite 90 Award winner for having the highest grade-point average of a student-athlete at the NCAA Frozen Four (4.0).
• Buium and Devine were both named AHCA First Team All-Americans, becoming the first Pioneers to repeat with the award since Henrik Borgstrom in 2017 and 2018.
• In conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the hockey program, the Murray Armstrong Hockey Student-Athlete Endowment reached more than $3.25 million in commitments, providing a long-term funding source for the program and ensuring they are equipped with the resources required to develop and empower Pioneers to compete for championships, while becoming leaders and great men on and off the ice.

2025 Gymnastics Highlights

• Following an up-and-down regular season, the Pioneers shined brightest when it mattered most, recording their third-highest postseason score of all time in the NCAA Second Round, a 197.650 to tie for first with No. 4-ranked Utah – the first-ever non-loss in 22 meetings with the storied Utes – and punching their ticket to their sixth-straight regional final.
• With their performances at NCAA Regionals, Rosie Casali (vault), Rylie Mundell (bars) and Madison Ulrich (all-around) qualified for the NCAA National Championships as individual event specialists.
• Ulrich went on to collect WGCA Second Team All-America honors in the all-around, on bars and on beam for her performance in the first national semifinal session, making her just the third DU gymnast to earn three All-America nods in a single season as an individual qualifier (joining NCAA national champions Lynnzee Brown and Nina McGee).
• Denver finished the season with a 17-8-1 record, including a perfect 10-0 inside Magness Arena and featuring wins over NCAA Finalist Missouri, and top 20-ranked opponents Minnesota, Stanford, Oregon State, Georgia, Michigan and N.C. State.
• Graduate students Bella Mabanta and Rylie Mundell earned All-Big 12 Conference honors on vault and bars, respectively, while sophomore Madison Ulrich earned all-conference honors in the all-around. Mabanta and junior Mila Brusch tied atop the vault podium at the Big 12 Championship to earn the first Big 12 event titles of their careers.
• DU wrapped up the 2025 campaign ranked 13th in the final Road to Nationals rankings, marking the 11th consecutive season with a top-15 final national ranking.

2025 Skiing Highlights

• Senior Sara Rask swept the 2025 women’s alpine national championship races with wins in slalom and giant slalom in Lyme Center, New Hampshire.
• Rask became the first Pioneer to earn the NCAA Championship double since Amelia Smart did it in her 2018 freshman campaign.
• Rask became the 19th Pioneer to sweep the NCAA title events with the 97th and 98th individual national championships in the program’s history.
• Rask won all seven slalom events during the season and finished the year with eight victories and 10 podiums in 14 races.
• Rask was one of six Denver skiers to earn All-America honors after the 2025 National Championships. Junior Mia Hunt picked up the first All-America accolades of her career, taking home second-team honors for her work in the alpine races. Nordic grad student Lea Wenaas earned First Team All-America honors in the women’s 20-kilometer freestyle, taking fourth in the race in what was also the highest placement by a DU women’s Nordic skier in five years at the national championships.
• On the men’s side, Andreas Kirkeng earned Nordic All-America honors for the fourth-straight year, taking seventh in the men’s 20K. In men’s alpine, Thomas Hoffman earned his second career All-America award, and freshman Pietro Motterlini earned Second Team All-America honors. Both men’s alpine skiers shined in Alaska in the end of February with Hoffman winning slalom at the conference championships/NCAA Regionals and Motterlini placing third in Giant Slalom in the UAA Invite, securing his spot to nationals.
• Kirkeng won five races and earned seven podiums and 10 top-five results in 14 races in 2025. He won the U.S. Cross Country National Championships in classic sprints and 20K classic, marking his third-straight season with a U.S. National Title. He finished his career with 17 race victories, the most among men in Denver skiing history.
• Wenaas won the Denver Invitational 10K freestyle pursuit for the first women’s Nordic victory by a Pioneer since the 2020 NCAA Championships.
• Junior Mia Hunt made her FIS Alpine World Cup debut in women's slalom with Team USA in Killington, Vermont on December 1.
• Denver had five current or former skiers named to their national ski teams in May as Loic Chable was selected to the Swiss Ski Team and Florian Knopf was picked to the German National Ski Team. Sophomore Liv Moritz is also a member of the U.S. Ski Team and made her FIS Alpine World Cup debut in January. Moritz will be joined on the 2025-26 US Ski Team by former national-champion Pioneers Katie Hensien and Jett Seymour.
• Denver had four skiers compete in the World University Games in January in Torino, Italy: Loic Chable (Switzerland), Pietro Motterlini (Italy) and Pio alums Jack Bowers (United States) and Hanna Ray (Finland).
• Following the season, Otto Tschudi Alpine Skiing Coach Joonas Rasanen signed a multi-year contract extension.

2024-25 Men's Swimming and Diving Highlights

• Denver men’s swimming and diving claimed its 11th Summit League Championships in its 12 seasons in the league, finishing more than 275 points ahead of the next closest program.
• Zyad Morsy was named the Summit League Diver of the Championship for the second-straight year, sweeping both diving events. Diving head coach Aaron D’Addario earned his fourth-straight Summit League Men’s Diving Coach of the Year honor.
• Morsy led the Pioneers in the NCAA postseason, finishing 11th in the men’s 1-meter dive and 20th in the 3-meter dive at the NCAA Zone E Diving Meet.
• Brandon Chapman was named the Summit League Swimming Championship MVP after being responsible for 57 points at this year’s championship.
• Head coach Alicia Hicken-Franklin earned her third-straight Summit League Men’s Swimming Coach of the Year honor, and her ninth coach of the year honor overall.
• Hamish McLellan accounted for 50 points to earn the Summit League’s Newcomer of the Championship Award.
• Denver’s men’s program had 17 student-athletes named to the All-Summit League teams for their performances at the championship.
• In the overall Summit League postseason awards, Dylan Wright earned Summit League Swimmer of the Year honors, leading the Pioneers in both dual meet points (98) and all-meet points (303).
• Morsy claimed his third-straight Summit League Men’s Diver of the Year award in April.
• For their work in the pool and in the classroom, Brandon Chapman, Joseph Hancock and Nico Morton earned spots on the 2025 Summit League All-Academic Team.
• Chapman also went on to be named a College Sport Communicators Academic All-American, the first DU men’s or women’s swimmer to earn the award since 2005-06.
• In international summer swims, Finn Holdredge finished 26th at the 5K National Championships and 27th at the 10K USA Open Water National Championships in April.
• At the 2025 South African National Championships, Wright earned a Worlds Qualifying B-Cut for his time in the men’s 200 back (2:01.67). Chapman also swam at the championships, earning three different top-five finishes at the event. Wright went on to qualify for South Africa's World University Games team.
• Hamish McLellan finished 19th in the 100 fly at the Australian Trials.
• A new endowment for the swimming programs was kickstarted by a record-setting gift for the program from the Watson Family after son Kieran Watson’s final season of eligibility concluded this spring.

2025 Men's Tennis Highlights

• Denver finished 18-7 and a perfect 5-0 in the Summit League slate, winning the final home-site Summit League Men’s Tennis Championship and making a return to the NCAA Tournament.
• The regular-season conference title was the program’s sixth-straight and its 11th overall.
• DU’s conference tournament title won at Denver Tennis Park was its second-straight and its eighth overall.
• The 2025 NCAA Tournament appearance was the program’s 10th since turning Division I in 1999.
• Denver earned Power-4 wins over Louisville and BYU.
• DU finished ranked a season-high No. 59 nationally before its season came to an end in an NCAA Tournament loss at No. 10 Arizona.
• Senior Daniel Sancho Arbizu was named the Summit League Player of the Year after going a perfect 5-0 in league play at the No. 1 spot in Denver’s lineup, part of a 2025 campaign that saw him finish 21-2 in dual singles matches and 30-5 overall in 2024-25.
• Sancho Arbizu's season also included wins over three-consecutive top-40 players from Power-4 programs in the fall and ending the year on a 16-match unbeaten run in singles to finish No. 45 nationally, the third-highest ranked player in program history.
• Sancho Arbizu was named the Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportmanship award winner for the ITA Mountain Region and the ITA Region Senior Player of the Year.
• Joining Sancho Arbizu at the 2024 NCAA National Singles Championships in November was junior Raffaello Papajcik, who became the first Pioneer men’s player to win an NCAA singles match in program history.
• Papajcik was named the ITA Mountain Region Most Improved Player of the Year for the second-consecutive season.
• Drew Eberly was named the Summit League Coach of the Year for the third year in a row after guiding the Pioneers to its 11th regular season title.
• Denver put six on the All-Summit League Team in Sancho Arbizu, Papajcik, Rikuto Yamaguchi, Samuel Rovai, Ryoma Mishiro and Connor Robb-Wilcox.
• Following the season, head coach Drew Eberly signed a multi-year contract extension to remain the Pioneers' head man.

2025 Women's Tennis Highlights

• The Pioneers finished the 2025 spring season 12-10 and a perfect 6-0 in the Summit League slate, winning the final home-site Summit League Women’s Tennis Championship to make their 11th consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament.
• DU’s regular-season title for the program was its 11th-straight Summit League title and continued the Pioneers’ unbeaten streak against Summit League opponents since joining the conference in 2013-14.
• Denver’s Summit League tournament title won at Denver Tennis Park was the program’s 11th-straight and its 13th conference tournament championship since turning Division I in 1999.
• Denver’s season came to an end with an NCAA Tournament First Round loss at No. 6 Oklahoma.
• Andrea Burguete Beltran advanced to the NCAA National Singles Championships in the fall, and won her first-round match in straight sets over the No. 31-ranked opponent, becoming DU's fourth women's player to win a singles match at NCAAs.
• DU put all six of its active student-athletes on the All-Summit League awards list, while Marley Lambert took home Summit League Newcomer of the Year honors and head coach Paul Wardlaw won his fourth-straight Summit League Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year honor.
• Joining Lambert on the All-Summit League Team were Burguete Beltran, Louise Wikander, Claudia Martinez de Velasco, Hana Bečirovič Novak and Natálie Cinková.

2024-25 Women's Golf Highlights

• Denver won its sixth-consecutive Summit League Championship to earn a spot in the NCAA Norman Regional.
• The conference championship was its 20th since the program turned Division I in 1998-99 to earn the Pioneers their 23rd-consecutive NCAA postseason appearance.
• The Pios finished 10th at the regional, besting No. 25 Duke in the final leaderboard. Denver shot the sixth-best final round in the field to move up the leaderboard on the final day.
• Clara Gestsdottir earned individual medalist honors for the second straight season at the Summit League Championship with an even-par 209.
• The two-time individual champion was also named the Summit League's Women's Golfer of the Year after the completion of the NCAA regional.
• Emma Bryant tied for a spot on the podium with a third-place finish of 3-over par.
• For their performances in the regular season, five Pioneers earned spots on the 2024-25 All-Summit League teams in Bryant, Gestsdottir, Haven Ward and Maren Farbu. Logan Hale was named to the league’s All-Freshman Team.
• In the program’s postseason tune-up, the Pioneers earned a runner-up finish at the 2025 Boilermaker Spring Classic, led by a second-place finish from Gestsdottir at six-under par.
• Following the season head coach Martha Richards, who was named the Summit League Coach of the Year for the fourth-straigh year, signed a multi-year contract extension.
• Bryant, Gestsdottir, Farbu and Hale were named to the WGCA All-American Scholar Team for their work on the course and in the classroom in 2024-25.

2024-25 Men's Golf Highlights

• Denver’s best result in a full-field tournament this season came in February at the Wexford Intercollegiate in Hilton Head, S.C., where the Pios finished fourth in an 18-team field.
• The Pioneers finished in the runner-up spot at the 2025 Santa Barbara Collegiate’s 11-team field in April.
• Denver closed out its season with a fifth-place finish at the Summit League Championship.
• Willis Panzarello tied for first place at the Summit League Championships, shooting 7-under at the final tournament of the season. Panzarello went on to earn a spot on the all-tournament team.
• Jack Dozer shot even-par to finish 13th.
• For their performances in the regular season, Panzarello and Dozer earned spots on the All-Summit League Second Team.

2025 Women's Lacrosse Highlights

• Denver made its seventh-straight trip to the NCAA Tournament after bringing its fifth-consecutive BIG EAST Women’s Lacrosse Tournament Championship back to the Mile High City.
• The Pioneers finished the year at 14-6, including 5-1 in BIG EAST play to claim the program’s sixth-straight BIG EAST regular-season title and its 12th conference regular season title in its program history.
• DU’s non-conference slate was highlighted by a home win over No. 5 Michigan on March 5 and a road victory at No. 9 Stanford on April 13.
• Olivia Ripple had a record-breaking afternoon in a 23-10 win at Marquette on April 2, scoring 10 goals to set the program’s single-game record and tie for the fourth-most goals in a game in NCAA DI women’s lacrosse history.
• In the 2025 BIG EAST regular season awards, Lauren Black was named the BIG EAST Attacker of the Year, Emelia Bohi was voted the BIG EAST Goalkeeper of the Year, and Liza Kelly and her staff were tabbed the co-BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year.
• Black and Bohi were joined on the All-BIG EAST First Team by Ripple and Sarah Pokorny. Caroline Colimore, Alex Dorr, Megan Klingenberg and Maddie Montgomery were named to the All-BIG EAST Second Team.
• The Crimson and Gold won their two BIG EAST Tournament games by a combined 16 goals.
• For their performances in the BIG EAST Tournament, Ripple (Most Outstanding Player), Bohi, Klingenberg, Reagan Wilson and Black were named to the BIG EAST All-Tournament Team.
• Ripple went on to be recognized as the IWLCA National Offensive Player of the Week following the conference championship week, scoring 11 goals, picking up eight ground balls and forcing three turnovers in the two-game tourney run.
• Following the season, Ripple was named to the IWLCA All-West/Midwest First Team, while Black and Pokorny were named to the second team.
• Black was named a 2025 Lacrosse Media All-America honorable mention selection.

2025 Men's Lacrosse Highlights

• In a season that included wins over No. 7 Duke and No. 13 Georgetown, the Pioneers finished 7-7 in 2025.
• Senior close defenseman Jimmy Freehill was named one of 25 nominees for the men’s Tewaaraton Award, given to the national player of the year.
• The Pioneers put a conference-high four student-athletes on the 2025 All-BIG EAST First Team in Freehill, Mic Kelly, Casey Wilson and Noah Manning. Cody Malawsky was voted to the All-BIG EAST Second Team.
• Wilson (second), Freehill and Kelly were all named to the 2025 USA Lacrosse All-America teams in May.
• Denver had two seniors from this year’s team selected in the 2025 Premier Lacrosse League Draft when Kelly was taken 12th overall by Boston and Freehill was picked 25th by Philadelphia. The Pios have had 35 outdoor lacrosse professional draft picks in their Division I history.
• Manning netted a sock trick in a neutral-site game in Dallas to lead the Pios to their first nationally-ranked upset of the season against Duke. Denver used a 12-1 run in the game to improve to 28-33 all-time against top-seven teams.
• In the Pios 7-3 win at No. 13 Georgetown in April, Denver held a ranked opponent to three goals or less for the first time since limiting No. 20 Providence to two tallies on April 22, 2017.