- 2023 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, fall semester
- 2023 CSC Academic All-District
- 2023 Academic All-RMAC honor roll
- 2023 D2ADA Academic Achievement Award
- 2022-23 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative
- 2022 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, fall semester
- 2022 Academic All-RMAC honor roll
- 2022 D2ADA Academic Achievement Award
- 2022 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, spring semester
- 2021-22 MSU Denver Academic Athlete of the Year (junior female)
- 2021 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, fall semester
- 2021 Academic All-RMAC honor roll
- 2021 D2ADA Academic Achievement Award
- 2021 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, spring semester
- 2020-21 Academic All-RMAC honor roll
- 2020 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, fall semester
- 2020 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, spring semester
- 2019 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, fall semester
- 2019 Athletic Director's Honor Roll, spring semester
2023: Outside back played all 19 games, starting 18, and ranked third on the team among field players with 1,494 minutes of action. ... Had one goal and one assist for three points. ... Took 11 shots, putting four on goal. ... Played an average of 79 minutes per game for team with nine shutouts and a 1.11 goals-against average. ... Played the full 90 minutes in three consecutive games, culminating with the big 1-0 win at Westminster on Oct. 6 that was the team’s fifth shutout of the season. ... Scored her first career goal, shooting from the top right corner of the box to the top left corner of the net, at 78:15 to give MSU Denver the final goal of its 2-0 win at Black Hills State on Sept. 24. ... Assisted on Sami Spring’s goal at 14:03 with a free kick into the box as the Roadrunners tied #9 Point Loma (Calif.) 1-1 on Sept. 16 in an eventual 2-1 defeat. ... Played all 90 minutes in the season-opening, 0-0 tie at Midwestern State (Texas) on Aug. 31.
2022: Outside back effective with three assists in just 379 minutes of action, putting two of her three shots on goal. ... Played in 15 games, starting one. ... Assisted on goals by Isa Durkin at 82:00 and Elli Zimmer at 88:47 in a 6-0 win at Adams State on Oct. 9. ... Earned first start of the season and picked up first career assist on Zimmer’s goal at 40:06, the opening score in an eventual 3-3 tie with Colorado School of Mines on Sept. 25. ... Played 25 minutes and put her first career shot on goal, in the 1-0 season-opening 1-0 loss at Simon Fraser (B.C.) on Aug. 26.
2021: Played in 17 games, starting two, for a total of 756 minutes. ... Provided steady play in outside back rotation with starters Katy Harris and Kate Giordano, including during starts in the final two games of the season. ... Played the full 90 minutes for the first time as a defender in a 1-0 loss to No. 10 UCCS in the first round of the RMAC Tournament on Nov. 7. ... Her 65 minutes in the 6-0 win over Adams State on Oct. 17 represented a career high when appearing as a field player. ... Played a career high (as a field player) 64 minutes off the bench in the 2-1 loss at CSU-Pueblo on Oct. 10. ... Played back-to-back career highs in minutes (other than one game as goalkeeper in 2020-21), with 33 against Texas A&M-Commerce in a 3-0 win Sept. 2 and 57 against Simon Fraser (B.C.) in a 1-1 tie on Sept. 4.
2020-21: Pressed into service as goalkeeper in the March 3 season opener against Colorado School of Mines, made four saves. ... Did not play in any other games.
2019: Appeared in five games, playing a total of 78 minutes. ... Made her MSU Denver debut against St. Mary’s (Texas) on Sept. 7, playing 15 minutes.
High School: Fairview High School, class of 2018...All-Front Range League second team as a senior...Had three goals and two assists during her senior year, helping the Knights to the Class 5A round of 16...Also played for team that reached the 5A quarterfinals in 2017 and 2016...Coached by Jeff Frykholm...Lettered three years in soccer...Completed high school with a 4.0 GPA.
Club: Was team captain of FC Boulder, which finished as state runners-up in 2018…Member of the 2016 U.S. Club Soccer national champion FC Boulder 99 team.
Personal: Born Danielle Erin Nelson in Boulder, Colo...Birthday is July 24...Daughter of Will and Mary Nelson…Has one brother, Cory…Majoring in exercise science.
