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Hoffman and McCabe Round Out Ski Team’s CSC Academic All-America Honors
6/22/2023 10:00 AM | Skiing
Pair of Utes combined to sweep the four women’s races at the 2023 NCAA Championships
SALT LAKE CITY – For the first time in recorded program history, the Utah Ski Team has three Academic All-Americans in the same year as Madison Hoffman and Novie McCabe earned the nod on Thursday from College Sports Communicators. McCabe was voted to the First Team and Hoffman to the Third Team, a day after Samuel Hendry was announced as part of the Academic All-America First Team on the men's side.
The pair combined to sweep the four women's races at the 2023 NCAA Championships, leading Utah to its fourth straight team title. In alpine, Hoffman claimed both the women's slalom and giant slalom, while McCabe was the winner in both the 5K freestyle and 20K classic races.
McCabe, a political science major with a 3.98 grade-point average, has 19 career collegiate victories including wins in her final five starts of the 2023 season. The 2022 U.S. Olympian was named RMISA Women's Freestyle MVP and All-RMISA First Team in '23, going on to win both races at the RMISA Championships which also served as the NCAA West Regional. The Winthrop, Washington, native owns three NCAA individual championships in her career, which includes both women's Nordic races this year plus the 5K classic title in 2022. Her six NCAA Championships starts since 2021 have each resulted in First Team All-America status. She has previously been named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll and USCSCA All-Academic Team as well.
Hoffman, a finance major with a 3.87 GPA through her junior season, was one of the top comeback stories in collegiate skiing during 2023. After missing almost all of 2022 due to injury, she persevered through recovery and capped it off with individual NCAA championships both in women's slalom and giant slalom. It earned Hoffman a pair of NCAA All-America citations and made the Sydney, Australia, native the first Utah skier since 1990 to sweep the women's alpine NCAA titles. Hoffman totaled four collegiate wins on the year and was named All-RMISA First Team. Her past academic accolades include the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll and USCSCA All-Academic Team.
CSC's Academic All-America awards are prestigious in all sports, but to earn it in skiing is particularly special and is considered more difficult. Many sports have their own CSC Academic All-America category specific to that sport; skiing falls into the at-large category which is shared on the women's side with beach volleyball, bowling, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, rowing and water polo.
Follow the Utah Ski Team on social media @utahskiteam.
Utah Ski Team and the CSC Academic All-America Program
The pair combined to sweep the four women's races at the 2023 NCAA Championships, leading Utah to its fourth straight team title. In alpine, Hoffman claimed both the women's slalom and giant slalom, while McCabe was the winner in both the 5K freestyle and 20K classic races.
McCabe, a political science major with a 3.98 grade-point average, has 19 career collegiate victories including wins in her final five starts of the 2023 season. The 2022 U.S. Olympian was named RMISA Women's Freestyle MVP and All-RMISA First Team in '23, going on to win both races at the RMISA Championships which also served as the NCAA West Regional. The Winthrop, Washington, native owns three NCAA individual championships in her career, which includes both women's Nordic races this year plus the 5K classic title in 2022. Her six NCAA Championships starts since 2021 have each resulted in First Team All-America status. She has previously been named to the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll and USCSCA All-Academic Team as well.
Hoffman, a finance major with a 3.87 GPA through her junior season, was one of the top comeback stories in collegiate skiing during 2023. After missing almost all of 2022 due to injury, she persevered through recovery and capped it off with individual NCAA championships both in women's slalom and giant slalom. It earned Hoffman a pair of NCAA All-America citations and made the Sydney, Australia, native the first Utah skier since 1990 to sweep the women's alpine NCAA titles. Hoffman totaled four collegiate wins on the year and was named All-RMISA First Team. Her past academic accolades include the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll and USCSCA All-Academic Team.
CSC's Academic All-America awards are prestigious in all sports, but to earn it in skiing is particularly special and is considered more difficult. Many sports have their own CSC Academic All-America category specific to that sport; skiing falls into the at-large category which is shared on the women's side with beach volleyball, bowling, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, rowing and water polo.
Follow the Utah Ski Team on social media @utahskiteam.
Utah Ski Team and the CSC Academic All-America Program
- 1986 - Jeff Durtschi - Second Team
- 1988 - Henrick Smith-Meyer - Second Team
- 1998 - Hailey Wappett - Third Team
- 1999 - Markus Leunig - Second Team
- 2000 - Sabrina Lawrence - Third Team
- 2003 - Jernej Bukovec - Third Team
- 2010 - Eva Huckova - Second Team
- 2011 - Eva Huckova - First Team
- 2011 - Torjus Krogdahl - Second Team
- 2015 - Kristiina Rove - Second Team
- 2016 - Endre Bjertness - Second Team
- 2018 - Martin Bergström - Second Team
- 2018 - Julie Mohagen - Third Team
- 2019 - Julie Mohagen - First Team
- 2022 - Samuel Hendry - Second Team
- 2023 – Samuel Hendry – First Team
- 2023 – Novie McCabe – First Team
- 2023 – Madison Hoffman – Third Team
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