The stellar NMU women's team did it again today. They swept the podium in both NCAA Championship races this week. Today, Lindsey Weier led the charge, followed by Lindsay Williams and Morgan Smyth.
In the men's 20K Classic, the same three skiers from Wednesday took today's podium as well. Snorri Einarsson of Utah and DU's Rene Reisshauer were again the top two, but this time Einarsson was the winner by two seconds. UAF's Marius Korthauer earned third for the second time this week. Dartmouth's Ben True was the first US skier to cross the line in fourth.
In the team competition, Dartmouth extended its lead thanks to a strong effort by its XC team today. Dartmouth placed all three of its women in the top 12, while closest rival Denver had its top skier in 13th place. In the men's race, True was joined by teammate Mike Sinnott (8th) in the top ten. Dartmouth now has a 38 point lead over Denver with only the slalom races still to come. Denver gained 19 points on Dartmouth in the giant slalom event, and will need to double that margin tomorrow to catch the Big Green.
More reports and photos to come.
NCAA SKIING CHAMPIONSHIPS WOMEN'S 15K CLASSIC OFFICIAL RESULTS 03/09/2007 TECHNICAL DATA TD JOHN FILANDER (USA) 15K CHIEF OF RACE THOM PERKINS (USA) HD 0 m TEMP JURY MEMBERS JENNY RYAN (NMU) MC 0 m AIR: 0 SCOTT JEROME (UAF) TC 0 m SNO 0 CHUCK BROOMHALL (USA) PL BIB NAME TEAM TIME PTS 1 3 WEIER, Lindsey NMU 47:21.0 39.0 2 6 WILLIAMS, Lindsey NMU 47:22.0 38.0 3 14 SMYTH, Morgan NMU 48:11.4 37.0 4 1 GREVSGAARD, Maria Moe CU 48:12.2 36.0 5 9 KORTHAUER, Aurelia UAF 49:19.0 35.0 6 4 ERMOSHINA, Polina UNM 49:27.2 34.0 7 13 DUNKLEE, Susan DAR 49:27.5 33.0 8 17 OWEN, Kristina MTU 49:33.8 32.0 9 10 RICE, Kasandra UAA 49:59.4 31.0 10 11 SCHWEIGER, Sara UU 50:20.1 30.0 11 8 STUDEBAKER, Sara DAR 50:33.3 29.0 12 5 SARGENT, Elsa DAR 50:40.1 28.0 13 15 BAILLY, Annelise DU 50:40.6 27.0 14 2 HAMEL, Carina UVM 50:42.5 26.0 15 16 HAMILTON, Jenny MID 50:44.6 25.0 16 7 ROENNESTRAND, Kristin CU 51:01.8 24.0 17 29 LAPOINT, Kara DU 51:21.9 23.0 18 12 WOELK, Jamie MSU 51:47.2 22.0 19 31 SPIKA, Devon WHT 51:51.1 21.0 20 23 GREER, Brittany UAA 51:59.1 20.0 21 25 DALE, Linn STO 52:03.9 19.0 22 18 MACCARTHY, Sarah UU 52:04.1 18.0 23 20 COULTER, Julia UAF 52:24.4 17.0 24 30 BOWDEN, Mandy MSU 52:30.6 16.0 25 37 KLEIN, Jenna MTU 52:35.6 15.0 26 22 ZEMP, Melanie UNM 52:50.4 14.0 27 27 DEMARCHIS, Emilia UVM 52:59.5 13.0 28 34 COULTER, Anna UAF 53:01.5 12.0 29 26 RENNIE, Claire MSU 53:02.3 11.0 30 39 PALANOVA, Lenka CU 53:12.6 10.0 31 19 EDWARDS, Cassidy MID 53:15.3 9.0 32 35 HOLMES, Chelsea UNR 53:18.4 8.0 33 24 BEDNAR, Kristen SLU 53:25.5 7.0 34 28 QUINLEY, Elizabeth MTU 53:27.0 6.0 35 33 HOWE, Katrina UVM 54:06.8 5.0 36 21 COOK, Annelies UU 54:08.0 4.0 37 32 BRADY, Paige UNR 55:22.0 3.0 38 36 DUNN, Kalie SLU 55:24.0 2.0 39 38 VAN ALST, Laura UNM 58:04.6 1.0 MEN'S 20K FREE CLASSIC OFFICIAL RESULTS 03/09/2007 TECHNICAL DATA TD JOHN FILANDER (USA) 20K CHIEF OF RACE THOM PERKINS (USA) HD 0 m TEMP JURY MEMBERS WOLF WALLENDORF (DU ) MC 0 m AIR: 0 ANDREW GARDNER (MID) TC 0 m SNO 0 CHUCK BROOMHALL (USA) PL BIB NAME TEAM TIME PTS 1 4 EINARSSON, Snorri UU 55:06.0 39.0 2 1 REISSHAUER, Rene DU 55:08.1 38.0 3 3 KORTHAUER, Marius UAF 55:15.9 37.0 4 5 TRUE, Benjamin DAR 55:19.8 36.0 5 10 GELSO, Matt CU 55:41.6 35.0 6 7 STENE, John DU 55:50.7 34.0 7 9 BANERUD, Martin NMU 55:58.5 33.0 8 2 SINNOTT, Michael DAR 56:06.8 32.0 9 8 UHL, Juergen UVM 56:07.8 31.0 10 11 WUNDERLE, Raphael UAA 56:09.3 30.0 11 22 FIGI, Fabian UU 56:23.2 29.0 12 17 VIOLETT, Phillip NMU 56:26.8 28.0 13 32 SAETRE, Erlend UNM 56:26.9 27.0 14 20 SLETTEN, Even UU 57:04.4 26.0 15 25 NYGREN, Karl CU 57:06.7 25.0 16 15 RICHMOND, Kit CU 57:12.3 24.0 17 16 RANDALL, Glenn DAR 57:14.4 23.0 18 12 SELSENG, Haavard DU 57:30.9 22.0 19 14 LANG, Jesse MTU 57:33.2 21.0 20 28 COE, Christian MSU 58:18.3 20.0 21 26 KLINE, Nick CBC 58:24.4 19.0 22 18 LIEBNER, Andy UAA 58:26.0 18.0 23 19 HAMILTON, Simeon MID 58:34.3 17.0 24 24 BOWLER, Bill NMU 58:55.1 16.0 25 39 PARK, Nathan MSU 59:09.5 15.0 26 30 SCHAUER, Paul UAA 59:15.3 14.0 27 23 ELLEFSON, Sylvan BAT 59:18.4 13.0 28 34 HEGLUND, Kevin MTU 59:24.1 12.0 29 29 BAILEY, Fred CBC 59:27.4 11.0 30 6 TEPPAN, Vahur UAF 59:39.8 10.0 31 36 REYNOLDS, Tim MID 59:55.4 9.0 32 21 PREUSSLER, Lutz UNR 59:56.7 8.0 33 13 FOLLERAAS, Anders UVM 1:00:06.5 7.0 34 35 DE CARUFEL, Matt UNR 1:00:17.2 6.0 35 31 RICHMOND, Andrew R WSC 1:01:18.7 5.0 36 33 ZIEGLER, Chris UVM 1:01:31.0 4.0 37 37 OCARIZ, Santiago UWGB 1:04:19.9 3.0 38 38 NEEL, Patrick WSC 1:05:44.9 2.0 Did Not Finish SOOM, Henri UAF : 0.0