David Hansburg has been Director of Athletics at Colorado School of Mines since 2013-14.
In only a few short years, Hansburg has presided over one of the most successful periods in Mines athletics history. Mines has won three consecutive RMAC All-Sports Competition Cups in 2016, 2017, and 2018, capturing a combined 23 RMAC titles in that span. In 2017-18, Mines earned its best Learfield Director's Cup finish ever at sixth as the Orediggers won seven RMAC titles and combined for 40 all-Americans and a program-best 12 Academic All-Americans; in 2016-17, two Mines teams made the NCAA Elite Eight (men's basketball and women's soccer) with men's cross country winning the NCAA South Central Regional title as Mines was 14th in the Learfield standings.
The 2015-16 season was another for the record books, as the Orediggers claimed their first-ever team national title (men's cross country), won five RMAC regular-season championships, and three RMAC Tournament titles. In 2014-15, the women's soccer team became the first Mines team to make an NCAA Final Four, and Oredigger teams earned five RMAC Brechler Awards and the RMAC Sportsmanship Cup.
A native of Roslyn, N.Y., Hansburg came to Mines from the Alexander Dawson School in Lafayette, Colo., where he served as Director of Athletics. No stranger to collegiate athletics, Hansburg previously served as the Associate Athletic Director for Football Operations and Summer Camps for the University of Colorado in Boulder. There he was a member of the athletics leadership team and participated in a variety of committees.
Hansburg also served as Director of Football Operations for Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., Assistant Football Coach and Special Teams Coordinator at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, and as CU-Boulder’s Director of Football Operations, where he created and maintained the Buffs’ $1M football budget.
In 2007 he founded Rocky Mountain Day Camp, located in Superior and Boulder. His camp was named the Boulder County Gold Best Summer Day Camp each of the past five years and was also named the winner of the Mercury 100 Fastest Growing Companies in Boulder County in each of the last three years as well.
Hansburg received his bachelor’s degree in History from Amherst in 1990 and earned a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration and Social Policy from Northwestern in 1996.
He got his start in collegiate athletics as a graduate assistant with the football program at Northwestern, where he coached the defensive backs. He was with the Wildcats in that capacity from 1994 to 1997, during which time the squad captured the 1995 and 1996 Big 10 Championships and participated in the Rose Bowl (1995) and Citrus Bowl (1996).
Hansburg, his wife Holly, and their three children Paxton, Zoe, and Quincy, reside in Superior.
