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DONNER SUMMIT, Calif. — A record Nordic performance and a sixth win from its star sophomore skier carried the University of Colorado ski team to the title here Friday in the 2006 RMISA Championships/NCAA West Regional. Colorado, ranked second in the nation, claimed its first NCAA west title since 2002, as the Buffaloes amassed 577 points to defeat runner-up New Mexico by nearly 30 points. The Lobos took second with 547½, edging top-ranked and defending...

Middlebury's Garrot Kuzzy followed up his huge 21km skate win from the day before with a solid 18-second victory in Sunday's 10k classic. UVM teammates Juergen Uhl and Anders Osthus took second and third. (Article on Saturday's mass-start skate races, with photos: Middlebury racer heads out of the start UVM's Kate Crawford crests one of the longer climbs in the woods where a healthy crowd of spectators and coaches were gathered

The Eastern college circuit is in full swing, despite less than ideal snow conditions at some recent carnivals. This weekend, Dartmouth is playing the “host away from home” as their carnival was moved north to the Craftsbury ski area in Vermont where snow–and freezing cold air–were plentiful. On the menu for Friday racers were mass-start skate races on a fresh, cold powder-covered, hilly 7km loop. The men raced first, skiing the loop three times for...

Western State College has announced the successful completion of an effort to privately fund its intercollegiate ski program through 2010. Alumni and friends of the college have made annual commitments of more than $135,000 for the next five years for a total of nearly $675,000 to ensure the program will continue. Tom Burggraf, Executive Director of the WSC Foundation, said college officials will “continue to work diligently to attract private investment so an endowment of...

UAA's Mandy Kaempf followed up her 5km classic win on Thursday with another clear victory in the 15km mass-start skate race which concluded the NCAA National Championships in Stowe, Vermont. Heavy snow made for soft conditions and an especially tough day on a demanding course. Nicole DeYoung Womens Podium: Left to Right Are Stursova, Kaempf, and DeYoung In the overall point totals which include two alpine events in addition to the xc races, Denver University...

Editor's Note: Women's race coverage will be posted soon. In the meantime, you can view the results at the links below. The final race of the NCAA National Ski Championships, the men's 20km mass-start freestyle, took place in a heavy snowstorm at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. Soft, slow conditions and a tough course made it an especially testing day for the 39 athletes who earned the chance to represent their university at...

The nordic side of the NCAA skiing nationals got underway today in Stowe, Vermont with 10km and 5km individual-start classic races for the men and women respectively. After several days of steady snow and cold, the weather cleared up nicely; conditions were great with bright sun, cool temperatures, and firm tracks. The men raced first on a two lap course which gave the large crowd of spectators and supportive teammates several chances to cheer on...

We are about two weeks late getting these results up. They came in to us during the World Championships and got overlooked. But since NCAAs start today, we thought that we better get these up first. 2005 WESTERN REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS MEN 10KM – CLASSIC RACE – RESULTS Place Bib First Name Country Affiliation Time 1 93 Rene Reisshauer GER DU 00:29:04.5 2 69 Henrik Hoye NOR CU 00:29:05.4 3 79 Haavard Selseng NOR DU 00:29:32.2...

NCAA QUALIFIER #4 Camp Ripley Trails, Little Falls, MN February 12-13, 2005 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2005 Jury: Course: Conditions: Staff Technical Delegate: Sten Fjeldheim Course Max Elev: Course Weather: Sunny Chief of Start: Jim Friedrich Course Min Elev: Course Temperature: 23 Degrees Staff Chief of Competition: Jeremy Frost Course HD Course Wind: 0-5 mph Staff Chief of Course: Dave Johnson Course MC Course TC Women's 5K Classic Results Place Cla Class No. Name Team Ussa#...

The University of New Mexico Lobos Nordic ski team demonstrated why they are the NCAA National Champions this past weekend, with a big win in the RMISA division on “home turf” here in New Mexico. UNM hosted ten schools in the RMISA at the Enchanted Forest XC ski area in Red River, NM. Conditions were great for the event, if not a little bit warm and wet from the constant barrage of wet, warm El...

Skiing on home turf at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, University of Vermont skiers took the top two spots in the men's 20km mass-start freestyle. On the women's side, it was a Dartmouth 1-2 which led the college to an overall carnival win. Lead Pack in the Men's 20km Ethan Foster Leads Lowell Bailey and Garrott Kuzzy For awhile it looked like things were shaping up for a sprint finish. However, the tough...

SALT LAKE CITY – The University of Utah ski team has hired Liechtenstein native Stephan Kunz as its new assistant cross country coach. Kunz will assist with the Ute cross country team's day-to-day management, training and race preparation. The annoncement was made today by ski team head coach Kevin Sweeney. “It is a fantastic day for the Utah ski team,” said Sweeney. “Bringing in a coach with the credentials Stephan has will certainly have a...

Solid arguments have been made to help answer the question of whether to attend an East Coast or West Coast school with a NCAA team ( me and my Colby-Sawyer teammates from Nationals held at Northstar at Tahoe,CA in 2003 I started skiing under USCSA as a freshman at Colby-Sawyer College where my teammates and I re-instituted a USCSA team after it died many years prior. Before my Junior year I transferred to Cornell University,...

Editor's Note: We received a number of emails in response to the East vs. West article we posted a week ago (

Picking a college as a young nordic skier can be a tough choice. Plenty of factors must be considered; one of the first decisions to be made is location. Where do I want to spend four years of my life skiing and studying? While there may be no need to intensify the east vs. west dispute (my respects to Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac), but to choose a college or university wisely, one must know the...

Last week, University of New Mexico (UNM) won their first ever NCAA skiing Championship, – quite an accomplishment from a team living in warm and sunny Albuquerque. landsted@unm.edu

DONNER SUMMIT, Calif. – New Mexico won its first NCAA championship in any sport with their capture of the 2004 NCAA Skiing Championships here at Auburn Ski Club Saturday. Sigrid Aas (UAF) and Henning Dybendal (UU) both repeated their victories from Thursday. The Lobos took the lead Friday following the men's and women's slalom events, over taking Denver, who led the first two days, and defending NCAA Champion Utah. New Mexico scored 623 points, followed...

Photos from last week's NCAA Championships. All photos by Mark Nadell, Far West Nordic Administrator. Thursday's Skate Race: Trini Lundamo – New Mexico Lowell Bailey – Vermont – 10k Skate second placeSaturday's race was grueling to watch, much less ski. VERY hard course, rocket conditions in the morning for the men that was hard to retain the klister, and then slush for the women, some of whom had to be treated for HEATSTROKE during the...

DONNER SUMMIT, Calif. – Henning Dybendal of Utah finished the 10K free technique course in 21:27.9, just in front of Lowell Bailey of Vermont and Erling Christiansen of Colorado and Alaska Fairbanks' Sigrid Aas beat Alaska Anchorage's Mandy Kaempf in the women's 5K freestyle race here at Auburn Ski Club Thursday to highlight the first day of cross country skiing at the 51st NCAA Skiing Championships. Aas zipped through the course in 11:55.5, eight seconds...

The Middlebury College ski teams have broken the nation’s longest conference winning streak by capturing the EISA (Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association) Championship last weekend, which also doubles as the Middlebury Carnival. Vermont had won the carnival for the previous 28 years before Middlebury took over the reins in ‘04. This marks the end of the carnival season for the Eastern college teams, with Midd capturing five of the six eastern carnivals this season. They return...