NCAA Skiing Championships

American collegiate snow ski tournament

Football tournament

The Denver Pioneers at the White House with President George W. Bush in June 2008. Through 2020, Denver owns the most team titles at 24.

The NCAA Skiing Championships are held annually to crown the National Collegiate Athletic Association combined men's and women's team skiing champion. Before 1983, the championship was only for men's skiing. Unlike many NCAA sports, only one National Collegiate championship is held each season with teams from Division I, Division II, and Division III competing together.

The University of Denver has won a record 24 team titles, including ten since 2000. The University of Colorado is second with 20 titles (plus one AIAW title), and the University of Utah is third with 14 (plus one AIAW title).

Denver won the first NCAA championship in 1954 at Reno with 384 points,^[1] 34.4 points ahead of runner-up Seattle University.^[2][3] The scoring system has been modified over the years; in 2012, Vermont scored a record 832 points, with a record margin of 161 points over second-place Utah.^[4]

The 2020 edition started on schedule, but was canceled in progress due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[5]

Team champions

1. The 2021 championships were originally scheduled for Middlebury College Snow Bowl in Hancock, Vermont, hosted by Middlebury College. The site was changed after Middlebury opted out of all athletic competition in 2020–21 due to continued COVID-19 concerns.^[12]

Titles by team

Colorado

Utah

Vermont

Dartmouth

Wyoming

New
Mexico

Denver

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Schools that have won the NCAA Championship
24, 20, 13, 6, 3, 2, 1

Appearances by team

Key

•  CH  National Champion
•  RU  National Runner-up
• Numbers indicate the placement of the team in that tournament beyond second
• The 2020 championships were abandoned due to the Covid-19 pandemic, so team appearances are credited, but no placements.

Individual Winners

Women's Alpine

• 4 wins: Kristine Gjelsten Haugen (GS: 2013, 2014, 2016; SL: 2013). 8 All American honors (4x1st, 2x3rd, 1x5th and 1x6th).
• 3 wins: Malin Hemmingsson (SL: 2007, 2009, 2010); Anke Friedrich (GS: 1989, 1990; SL: 1990); Christl Hager (GS: 1994, 1995, 1997); Lucie Zikova (GS: 2008; SL: 2006, 2008); Amelia Smart (GS: 2018; SL: 2018, 2021); Magdalena Luczak (GS: 2022, 2024; SL: 2024).
• 8 sweeps (GS and SL in same year): Bente Dahlum (1984), Anke Friedrich (1990), Lucie Zikova (2008), Kristine Gjelsten Haugen (2013), Amelia Smart (2018), and Laurence St. Germain (2019), Madison HOffman (2023), Magdalena Luczak (2024).

Men's Alpine

• 6 wins - Chiharu Igaya (1955–57)
• 5 wins - Otto Tschudi (1970–72)
• 4 wins - Buddy Werner (1961–63), Bill Marolt (1961–63), Mike Porcarelli (1970–72), Peik Christensen (1973–75)

Alpine Sweep (9): Chiharu Igaya (1955), Marvin Melville (1959), Joch Clough (1964), Otto Tschudi (1971), Stephen Heinzsch (1977), John Skajem (1987), Adam Cole (2007), John Buchar (2008), David Ketterer (2017)

Men's Nordic

4 Wins - Thorodd Bakken, Vermont (1996–98)
Nordic Sweeps: Egil Nilssen (1982), John Aalberg (1984), Hans Martin Sjulstad (1986), Osmund Driveness (1987), Per Kare Jakobsen (1988), Thorod Bakken (1998), Pietro Broggini (2000), Ola Berger (2002), Henning Dybendel (2004), Rene Reisshauer (2005), Mads Stroem (2016), Martin Bergstrom (2017), Magnus Boee (2021), Ben Ogden (2022)

Women's Nordic

4 Wins - Laura Wilson (1990–91), Katerina Hanusova, 2000–02), Antje Maempel (2009-10)
Nordic Sweeps: Brenda White (1988), Sari Argillander (1989), Laura Wilson (1990, 1991), Heidi Selnes (1995), Lisbeth Johnson (1996), Line Selnes (1998), Katerina Hanusova (2000), Mandy Kaempf (2005), Jana Rehemaa (2006), Maria Grevsgaard (2008), Antje Maempel (2009, 2010), Petra Hyncicova (2017), Katharine Ogden (2018), Sydney Palmer-Leger (2021), Novie McCabe (2023)

Men's combined

All four events (cross country, downhill, jumping, slalom)

Hosts

Host sites, by school (Includes co-hosts)

• Non-School Hosts: 1966-69, 1971, 1980, 1983

Host sites, by location

Individual events

Current events

Discontinued events

Individual Championships

• Results through 2024

Championships by coach

• Results through 2022, no team title awarded in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Source:^[15]

See also

• List of NCAA skiing programs
• AIAW Intercollegiate Women's Skiing Champions
• Pre-NCAA Intercollegiate Skiing Champions

References

1. Bennyhoff, Robert (March 8, 1954). "Denver cops national ski tourney". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). United Press. p. B4.
2. "Cougars, Vandals trail in ski mix". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 7, 1954. p. 2, sports.
3. "Denver ski birds win NCAA jump; Vandals fourth". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 8, 1954. p. 8.
4. "Skiing Champs Records" (PDF). ncaa.org. NCAA. 2014.
5. "2020 NCAA Championship Results FINAL (PDF)" (PDF). University of Colorado Athletics.
6. "1972 roster (PDF)" (PDF). University of Colorado Athletics.
7. "1977schedule1976record" (PDF).
8. "Colorado rallies to claim NCAA skiing title". USA Today.
9. "Utah to Host 2014 NCAA Skiing Championships - the Official Athletic Site of the University of Utah". Archived from the original on 2012-11-19. Retrieved 2013-05-30.
10. "2014-18 NCAA Championship Sites | NCAA.com". www.ncaa.com.
11. "RMISASkiing.com". www.rmisaskiing.com.
12. "UNH to Host 2021 NCAA Ski Championships" (Press release). New Hampshire Wildcats. March 1, 2021. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
13. "Host Sites 2022-2026" (PDF). ncaa.org. NCAA. 2020.
14. "NCAA News" (PDF). Denver Takes Second Crown In NCAA Skiing Championships. Franconia, New Hampshire. 1970.
15. National Collegiate Skiing Championships Records Book (PDF). NCAA. 2016.

External links

• NCAA sports Skiing