Eva Sever Rus Season 2014-15

Freshman (2014): Turned in one of the greatest freshman seasons in UNM Nordic history, twice earning First Team All-America honors, including winning the national championship in the 15K freestyle … was named First Team All-RMISA in Nordic and the was named the RMISA Women’s Nordic Athlete of the Year … finished in the top four in each of her last 11 races, with three wins and 10 podium finishes … ironically opened her career with a 16th place finish in the classical at the Pat Miller Invitational … she would not finish worse than fourth again for the season … bounced back from the 16th place finish to finish third in the freestyle, the first of 10 podium finishes … finished third in both the 5K classical and the 10K freestyle in the Montana State Invitational … earned her first win, and first of three out of her final four races in the freestyle, winning the 15K at the Colorado/Spencer Nelson Invitational … nearly swept both titles, finishing second in the classical … earned the RMISA Nordic Skier of the Week for her efforts in Colorado … at the Jade Enterprises/New Mexico Invitational, she finished second in the classical and then fourth in the freestyle … at the RMISA/NCAA West Championships, Sever Rus took home the title in the freestyle, and finished third in the classical … at the NCAA Championships, she earned First Team All-America honors with a third place finish in the classical … followed that up by becoming UNM’s first Nordic freestyle NCAA champion on the women’s side since Ivana Radlova in 1993.

Prior to UNM: Skiing competitively for TSK Valkarton Logatec in Solvenia … had only one title to her credit in her FIS career, winning the 5K freestyle at Dvorista-Pale in Bosnia-Hertogovenia

Personal: Born on August 27, 1992 … is undecided on a major … graduated from Gimnazija Ljubljana Šiška.