Mary Rachel (M.R) Hostetter is set for her fifth season as the Alpine Associate Head Coach of the University of Denver Ski Team in winter 2026.
In her previous four seasons, she has helped guide the Pioneers to four top-four finishes at the NCAA Championship and first place among all alpine squads at the 2023 National Championships. Hostetter has also aided alpine skiers to 27 individual victories and 24 All-American honors.
Hostetter, 35, helped guide senior Sara Rask to eight individual victories in 2025, including a pair of national titles in women’s slalom and giant slalom and a season sweep in the collegiate slalom events (seven wins). Additionally, junior Mia Hunt joined Rask with a pair of All-American awards and made her FIS Alpine World Cup debut earlier in the season in Killington, Vermont.
The Steamboat Springs, Colorado, native returned to Denver prior to the 2022 collegiate season after previously being an alpine skier at the school from 2009-2011. Her most recent stint at DU comes after spending the previous three years as the head alpine ski coach for the under-19 and under-14 programs at Eldora Ski & Snowboard Club. Prior to Eldora, she was the head alpine coach at St. Olaf College (NCAA division III) in Northfield, Minnesota, for two seasons (2016-2018), helping the school to the USCSA National Championship each year and winning two President’s Cups.
Hostetter began her collegiate career at DU and helped the Pioneers win the 2010 NCAA National Championship before transferring to the University of New Mexico. She skied for the Lobos from 2011-2013, earning the school’s Scholar-Athlete and Mountain West Scholar-Athlete awards in both 2012 and 2013. Hostetter was also named to the Capital One All America Third-Team and the Capital One Academic All-District VII First-Team in 2013, was an honoree for the USCSCA National All-Academic Ski Team and earned NCAA All-Academic and Academic All-American accolades in both 2012 and 2013.
She graduated from New Mexico in 2013 with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and business management and earned her master’s in physical education and sports management from UNM in 2015.
Hostetter resides in Broomfield with her husband, Joonas.
