1972 NCAA Skiing Championships

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1972 NCAA Skiing Championships
Wyoming

The 1972 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested in Winter Park, Colorado at the nineteenth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine, cross country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States.[1]

Host

1960), finishing 5.2 points ahead of three-time defending champion Denver in the team standings.[2]

Colorado's Mike Porcarelli reclaimed the slalom and alpine titles he won two years earlier; the repeat champions were Otto Tschudi of Denver in downhill and Bruce Cunningham of New Hampshire in Nordic combined. Denver's Odd Hammernes won his second jumping title, three years after the first.[2]

In the downhill race,

Utah sophomore David Novelle was killed after he lost a ski, went off the course, and collided with a tree. As a result, the Utah team withdrew from the competition.[3][4][5]

Venue

Main article: Winter Park Resort

This year's championships were held March 16–18 in Colorado at Winter Park, west of Denver.

The nineteenth edition, these were the sixth NCAA Championships in Colorado and the third at Winter Park (

1956, 1959); the others were at Crested Butte (1966) and Steamboat Springs (1968, 1969
).

Team scoring

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Rank Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)
Colorado
 385.3
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Denver 380.3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Wyoming
 373.0
4
Middlebury
 368.9
5
Dartmouth
 367.0
6
Fort Lewis
 360.9
7
New Hampshire
 359.3
8
Nevada–Reno
 324.6
9
Northern Michigan
 310.5
10
Idaho
 290.0
11
Michigan Tech
 249.7
12
Montana
 220.3
13
Weber State
 181.3
14
Western State
 93.0
15 Alaska Methodist 92.9
16
Utah
 92.0
Source:[1][2]

Individual events

Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.

  • Thursday: Downhill, Cross Country
  • Friday: Slalom
  • Saturday: Jumping
Event Champion
Skier Team Time/Score
Alpine Mike Porcarelli (2)
Colorado
 2:19.6
Cross Country Norway Stale Engen
Wyoming
 52:24
Downhill Norway Otto Tschudi (3) Denver 1:09.22
Jumping Norway Odd Hammernes (2) Denver 224.5
Nordic Bruce Cunningham (2) New Hampshire 7:07.7
Skimeister Kim Kendall New Hampshire 336.1
Slalom Mike Porcarelli (2)
Colorado
 1:25.71
Source:[1][2][3][4][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "NCAA Skiing Championships Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d "Big Colorado finish captures ski crown". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 19, 1972. p. 9, sports.
  3. ^ a b "Utah racer is killed in NCAA downhill ski". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 17, 1972. p. 36.
  4. ^ a b "Ute skier killed". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). UPI. March 17, 1972. p. B12.
  5. ^ "NCAA Skiing Delayed A Day". U. of Colorado. U. of Colorado. Retrieved June 10, 2019.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Colorado, Wyoming close in NCAA ski competition". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 19, 1972. p. 15.

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