David Hansburg has been Director of Athletics at Colorado School of Mines since 2013-14.
In his time at Mines, Hansburg has presided over the most successful period in program history. Mines won seven consecutive RMAC All-Sports Competition Cups from 2016 through 2023, and no university has won more RMAC championships (78 through spring 2025) since Hansburg arrived at Mines. The Orediggers have recorded eight top-20 LEARFIELD Directors' Cup finishes including six consecutive top-10 showings, and the program's best-ever third-place finish in 2023. Mines also won the first four national team championships as the men's cross country team captured the 2015, 2019, 2022, and 2024 NCAA Division II Championships, and the only two programs to make tournament final four appearances - women's soccer in 2014 and football in 2021, 2022, and 2023 - have been during his career in Golden, with football advancing to the 2022 and 2023 national championship games.
The Orediggers have also enjoyed unparalleled academic success including 169 Academic All-Americans (the most in NCAA Division II during his tenure) and 38 Brechler Awards, which recognize the RMAC's top GPA teams in each sport annually.
Hansburg has also overseen significant growth in Mines' athletic facilities during his tenure, including the construction and completion of Marv Kay Stadium and the Korell Athletic Center, the soccer/track & field support building, the full renovation of Joe Coors, Jr. Softball Field, and numerous upgrades and additions to facilities around campus.
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.
