2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America At Large Team
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Katharine Irwin, a junior on the UNM ski team with a 4.10 in biochemistry and molecular biology, was named a First Team Google Cloud Academic All-America, earning her spot on the at large team, generally regarded as one of the hardest teams to earn a spot on.
The Google Cloud Academic All-America At Large team consists of female student-athletes from the sports of beach volleyball, bowling, crew/rowing, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis and water polo.
Irwin is one of just two female skiers, and three overall, to earn 2018 Good Drive Academic All-America honors. She is the only skier on the first team.
Irwin picked up a pair of wins on the season in giant slalom for the Lobos in 2018, and then in the NCAA Championships she earned First Team All-America honors with a runner-up showing in the giant slalom at the championships held in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Irwin is the sixth Lobo women’s skier to earn Academic All-America honors, and combined with the men’s program, hers is the 16th Academic All-America award, all since 1998. The last women’s skier to earn Google Cloud Academic All-America honors was Emilie Cedervärn in 2016, and the last women’s alpine skier was Mary Rachel Hostetter in 2013.
Irwin joins fellow Lobos Simon Spangenberg and Jason Beaulieu of men’s soccer’s and Cherise Beynon of women’s basketball as Google Cloud Academic All-America selections for the 2017-18 academic year. All four student-athletes were first team selections.
Irwin is the 109th Academic All-America selection in UNM history (dating back to 1968), with 79 of those coming in the last 17 years.
| Women’s Skiing Academic All-America Selections | ||
| 1998 | Caroline Von Scheven | Second Team |
| 2004 | Martina Stursova | First Team |
| 2005 | Martina Stursova | First Team |
| 2013 | Mary Rachel Hostetter | Third Team |
| 2016 | Emilie Cedervärn | First Team |
| 2018 | Katharine Irwin | First Team |
| Men’s Skiing Academic All-America Selections | ||
| 1998 | Jimmy Renstroem | Third Team |
| 1999 | Stefan Lanziner | Second Team |
| 2005 | Lars Loeseth | First Team |
| 2006 | Lars Loeseth | Second Team |
| 2007 | Lars Loeseth | First Team |
| 2009 | Tor-Hakon Hellebostad | Third Team |
| 2011 | Tor-Hakon Hellebostad | First Team |
| 2012 | Armin Triendl | Third Team |
| 2014 | Mats Resaland | First Team |
| 2014 | Armin Triendl | First Team |