Eva Sever Rus - 2014 Female Athlete of the Year
Eva Sever Rus – 2014 Female Athlete of the Year Courtesy: New Mexico Athletics
Release: 11/25/2014
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Eva Sever Rus
Eva Sever Rus turned in one of the greatest true freshman ski campaigns in school history, finishing in the top three in 10 of her 12 races on the season, earning First Team All-America twice, and winning the NCAA National Championship in the 15k Freestyle.
Sever Rus, who didn’t enroll at UNM until after Christmas, finished 16th in her very first race, the 10K Classical at the Pat Miller Invitational in Utah. She would finish finish lower than third just once the rest of the season, and that was a fourth place finish.
Three times she won freestyle events. Her first title was at the 15K Colorado/Spencer Nelson Invitational, and then she won the RMISA/NCAA West Region championship, also in the 15K freestyle. Sever Rus then came from behind to win the NCAA title by 1.8 seconds.
Not only was Sever Rus a two-time First Team All-America, she earned First Team All-RMISA and was also named RMISA Skier of the Week and the RMISA Women’s Nordic Athlete of the Year. She became the first female Nordic individual race winner in nine years, and she became the first female to win three Nordic races in a season in 20 years, since Ivana Radlova in 1993.?