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1972 NCAA Skiing Championships
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1972 NCAA Skiing Championships College skiing Alpine skiing pictogram.svg 120 Colorado Winter Park, Colorado March 16 18, 1972 NCAA Colorado Winter Park Ski Area 16 4 (7 titles) Colorado (3rd title) Denver Wyoming 1971 1973
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.NCAA Skiing Championships Results http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/skiing_champs_records/2012-13/2012-13_ski_rec.pdf NCAA NCAA.org January 21, 2017
Host Colorado, coached by alumnus Bill Marolt, captured their third national championship (and first since 1960), finishing 5.2 points ahead of three-time defending champion Denver in the team standings.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=CNovAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LO0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5011%2C1902415 Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Associated Press Big Colorado finish captures ski crown March 19, 1972 9, sports
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.
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.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BtovAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LO0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3021%2C857841 Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Associated Press Utah racer is killed in NCAA downhill ski March 17, 1972 36https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tKUqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8FsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4580%2C3969404 Deseret News Salt Lake City, Utah UPI Ute skier killed March 17, 1972 B12NCAA Skiing Delayed A Day https://cubuffs.com/sports/2009/3/11/3690669.aspx U. of Colorado June 10, 2019February 2021 InternetArchiveBot yes
Venue
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
United States 1 WinterPark 39.887 -105.763 Location in the United States 5 230
Colorado 1 WinterPark 39.887 -105.763 Location in Colorado 5 160
Rank Team Points Colorado385.3 Denver 380.3 Wyoming 373.0 04 4 Middlebury 368.9 05 5 Dartmouth 367.0 06 6 Fort Lewis 360.9 07 7 New Hampshire 359.3 08 8 Nevada–Reno 324.6 09 9 Northern Michigan 310.5 10 10 Idaho 290.0 11 11 Michigan Tech 249.7 12 12 Montana 220.3 13 13 Weber State 181.3 14 14 Western State 93.0 15 15 Alaska Methodist 92.9 16 16 Utah 92.0
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Individual events
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.
Thursday: Downhill, Cross Country
Friday: Slalom
Saturday: Jumping
Event Champion Skier Team Time/ScoreAlpine Mike Porcarelli (2) Colorado 2:19.6Cross Country NOR Stale Engen Wyoming 52:24 Downhill NOR Otto Tschudi (3) Denver 1:09.22Jumping NOR Odd Hammernes (2) Denver 224.5Nordic Bruce Cunningham (2) New Hampshire 7:07.7Skimeister Kim Kendall New Hampshire 336.1Slalom Mike Porcarelli (2) Colorado 1:25.71
Source:https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B9ovAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LO0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5047%2C960755 Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Associated Press Colorado, Wyoming close in NCAA ski competition March 19, 1972 15
See also
List of NCAA skiing programs
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