411 REFERENCE · Wikipedia
1971 NCAA Skiing Championships
Reference material by Wikipedia contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
American college skiing competition
August 2023
1971 NCAA Skiing Championships College skiing Alpine skiing pictogram.svg 120 South Dakota 1963 Lead, South Dakota March 4 6, 1971 NCAA Terry Peak 12 4 (7 titles) Denver (14th title) Colorado Middlebury 1970 1972
The 1971 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at Terry Peak ski area in Lead, South Dakota, at the 18th annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States.NCAA Skiing Championships Results http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/skiing_champs_records/2012-13/2012-13_ski_rec.pdf NCAA NCAA.org January 17, 2018
Denver, under new head coach Peder Pytte, captured their fourteenth national championship and tenth in eleven years. They finished 21.6 points ahead of rival Colorado in the team standings.
Denver's Otto Tschudi, winner of the previous year's giant slalom, swept the three alpine titles; teammate Ole Hansen repeated as Cross Country champion,https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/05/archives/denver-takes-lead-in-ncaa-ski-meet.html New York Times Associated Press Denver takes lead in NCAA ski meet March 5, 1971 42 and John Kendall of New Hampshire repeated as Skimeister (all four events).
Despite Denver's impressive streak of success, the Pioneers' next team title came in 2000, nearly three decades later.
Venue
Terry Peak
The eighteenth edition, this year's NCAA skiing championships were held March 4–6 in South Dakota at Terry Peak, in the Black Hills near Lead.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gxpQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U1UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1486%2C1412762 Deseret News Salt Lake City, Utah Weber skiers in NCAA March 6, 1971 A4
Through 2020, these remain the only championships hosted in South Dakota.
Team scoring
United States 1 TerryPeak 44.329 -103.835 Location in the United States 5 230
Rank Team Points Denver 394.7 Colorado 373.1 Middlebury 368.8 04 4 Dartmouth 368.3 05 5 New Hampshire 367.0 06 6 Wyoming 360.8 07 7 Fort Lewis 358.5 08 8 Utah 328.8 09 9 Montana 326.3 10 10 Northern Michigan 317.7 11 11 Nevada–Reno 308.2 12 12 Michigan Tech 249.0
Source:
Individual events
South Dakota 1 Location in South Dakota 180 Terry Peak 6 44.329 -103.835
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.
Thursday: Downhill (2 runs), Cross Country
Friday: Slalom
Saturday: Jumping
Event Champion Skier Team Time/ScoreAlpine NOR Otto Tschudi Denver 3:21.68Cross Country NOR Ole Hansen (2) Denver 55:05 Downhill NOR Otto Tschudi (2) Denver 2:31.22Jumping NOR Vidar Nilsgard Colorado 222.5Nordic Bruce Cunningham New Hampshire 7:04.9Skimeister John Kendall (2) New Hampshire 346.8Slalom NOR Otto Tschudi Denver 1:33.40
Source:
See also
List of NCAA skiing programs
References
44.329 -103.835 title type:event
NCAA Skiing Championships
Category:NCAA Skiing Championships
NCAA Skiing Championships
NCAA Skiing Championships
NCAA Skiing Championships
NCAA Skiing Championships
NCAA Skiing Championships
Category:Skiing in South Dakota