INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Skiing Committee announced the 74 men and 74 women selected to participate in the 2011 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Skiing Championships, to be held March 9-12, at the Stowe Mountain Resort and Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. The championships will be hosted by the University of Vermont.
Participants are selected on a regional basis from two designated regions for Alpine skiing (East and West Regions) and three designated regions for Nordic skiing (Central, East and West Regions). Bids are awarded to regions using a formula determined by the skiing committee. A maximum of 12 student-athletes (three per gender per discipline) may participate from an institution.
Nordic events will be held March 9 and 11 at Trapp Family Lodge. The men’s 10-kilometer and women’s five-kilometer freestyle cross-country races will be conducted March 9. The women’s 15-kilometer and men’s 20-kilometer classical races will be held March 11.
Alpine events will run March 10 and 12 at Stowe Mountain Resort. The men’s and women’s giant slaloms will be held March 10, with the men’s and women’s slaloms conducted March 12.
This year’s skiing championships will be webcast live on NCAA.com. In addition, highlights of the skiing championships will be shown on CBS at 1 p.m. ET, Saturday, April 30.
| ALPINE | |
|---|---|
| NORDIC | |
| East Region – Men | East Region – Women |
| Peter Ankeny, Dartmouth | Catherine Blanchard, New Hampshire |
| Paul Atkinson, New Hampshire | Laurel Carter, Williams |
| John Canney, Bates | Ashley-Kate Durham, St. Lawrence |
| Zach Clayton, New Hampshire | Nicole Dvorak, Middlebury |
| Sam Coffey, New Hampshire | Erin Fucigna, Dartmouth |
| Rob Cone, Middlebury | Courtney Hammond, Dartmouth |
| Evan Diamond, Dartmouth | Micaela Holland, Bates |
| Kevin Drury, Vermont | Lyndee Janowiak, Vermont |
| Bump Heldman, Bates | Annie Leiter, Williams |
| Tim Kelley, Vermont | Marie-Elaine Lepine, New Hampshire |
| Trevor Leafe, Dartmouth | Geordie Lonza, Williams |
| Ben Manter, Bates | Rebecca Nadler, Harvard |
| Marc Massie, Colby | Annie Rendall, Dartmouth |
| Andrew McNealus, Middlebury | Laura Rozinowicz, New Hampshire |
| Brian Morgan, Colby | Kate Ryley, Vermont |
| Jonathan Nordbotten, Vermont | Meg Ryley, Vermont |
| Hig Roberts, Middlebury | Catherine Sheils, Harvard |
| Jim Ryan, Colby | Tasha Woodworth, Middlebury |
| West Region – Men | West Region – Women |
| Chris Acosta, New Mexico | Karen Bell, Montana State |
| Andreas Adde, Alaska Anchorage | Ida Bjerka, Alaska Anchorage |
| Chris Barber, Montana State | Anne Cecilie Brusletto, New Mexico |
| Petter Brenna, New Mexico | Lindsay Cone, Denver |
| Eric Davis, Colorado | Stefanie Demetz, New Mexico |
| Jeremy Elliot, Utah | Ida Dillingoen, Denver |
| Halfdan Falkum-Hansen, Alaska Anchorage | Erika Ghent, Colorado |
| Kitt Flowers, Denver | Sterling Grant, Denver |
| Andreas Haug, Colorado | Sara Hjertman, Colorado |
| Geoff Irwin, Montana State | Kayla Hoog-Fry, Alaska Anchorage |
| Andreas Kilde, Denver | Eva Huckova, Utah |
| Christopher Kollenborg, Alaska Anchorage | Anna Kocken, Utah |
| Torjus Krodgahl, Utah | Carolina Nordh, Colorado |
| Gabriel Rivas, Colorado | Alex Parker, Alaska Anchorage |
| Seppi Stiegler, Denver | Marissa Riopelle, Montana State |
| Armin Triendl, New Mexico | Tii-Maria Romar, Utah |
| Ryan Wilson, Utah | Kate Williams, New Mexico |
| Central Region – Men | Central Region – Women |
| Martin Banerud, Northern Michigan | Malin Eriksson, Michigan Tech |
| Jens Brabbit, Gustavus Adolphus | Carolyn Freeman, Green Bay |
| Mikko Harju, Michigan Tech | Monica Markvardsen, Northern Michigan |
| Tyler Kornfield, Alaska Fairbanks | Theresia Schnurr, Alaska Fairbanks |
| Andy Liebner, Northern Michigan | Raphaela Sieber, Alaska Fairbanks |
| David Norris, Alaska Fairbanks | Marie Helen Soderman, Northern Michigan |
| Erik Soderman, Northern Michigan | Christina Turman, Northern Michigan |
| Alexander Treinen, Alaska Fairbanks | |
| East Region – Men | East Region – Women |
| Jake Barton, Colby | Rosie Brennan, Dartmouth |
| Franz Bernstein, Vermont | Sophie Caldwell, Dartmouth |
| Wyatt Fereday, Colby | Clare Egan, New Hampshire |
| Harrison Harb, New Hampshire | Erika Flowers, Dartmouth |
| Alex Howe, Vermont | Lucy Garrec, Vermont |
| Keith Kantack, Williams | Kirsten Gill, Bates |
| Nils Koons, Dartmouth | Amy Glen, Vermont |
| Ben Lustgarten, Middlebury | Elizabeth Guiney, New Hampshire |
| Dimitri Luethi, Williams | Leah Hart, St. Lawrence |
| Chase Marston, Middlebury | Tasha Kullas, New Hampshire |
| Eric Packer, Dartmouth | Caitlin Patterson, Vermont |
| Scott Patterson, Vermont | Corrine Prevot, Middlebury |
| Welly Ramsey, Maine-Presque Isle | Natalie Ruppertsberger, Bates |
| Sam Tarling, Dartmouth | Alena Tofte, Harvard |
| Sarah Tory, Williams | |
| West Region – Men | West Region – Women |
| Erik Bjornsen, Alaska Anchorage | Jaime Bronga, Alaska Anchorage |
| Andrew Dougherty, Denver | Makayla Cappel, Denver |
| Lukas Ebner, Alaska Anchorage | Ase Carlson, Montana State |
| Tor-Hakon Hellebostad, New Mexico | Kate Dolan, Denver |
| Miles Havlick, Utah | Mari Elden, Denver |
| Martin Kaas, New Mexico | Maria Graefnings, Utah |
| Vegard Kjoelhamar, Colorado | Eliska Hajkova, Colorado |
| Trygve Markset, Denver | Christina Hellberg, New Mexico |
| Jesper Ostensen, Colorado | Steffi Hiemer, Alaska Anchorage |
| Christian Otto, New Mexico | Sofie Jonsson, New Mexico |
| Reid Pletcher, Colorado | Casey Kutz, Montana State |
| Tyler Reinking, Montana State | Marta Larsen, Utah |
| Bernhard Roenning, Montana State | Joanne Reid, Colorado |
| Ryan Scott, Montana State | Laura Rombach, Alaska Anchorage |
| Didrik Smith, Utah | Zoe Roy, Utah |
| Tom Smith, Utah | Alexa Turzian, Colorado |
| Kristian Soerlund, Denver | Martine Weng, New Mexico |
| INSTITUTION | MEN’S ALPINE | WOMEN’S ALPINE | MEN’S NORDIC | WOMEN’S NORDIC | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Anchorage | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| Alaska Fairbanks | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Bates | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Colby | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Colorado | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| Dartmouth | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| Denver | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| Green Bay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gustavus Adolphus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Harvard | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Maine-Presque Isle | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Michigan Tech | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Middlebury | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Montana State | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| New Mexico | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| Northern Michigan | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| St. Lawrence | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Utah | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| Vermont | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| Williams | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
The University of Denver enters the 2011 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Skiing Championships as the three-time defending champion after claiming its record 21st title at last year’s championships in Colorado. The Pioneers earned 785.5 team points, finishing more than 70 points ahead of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who claimed the second-place position. The University of New Mexico finished third at 677 team points.
Denver’s Antje Maempel claimed individual titles in both of the women’s Nordic events for the second year in a row, becoming only the second female skier in NCAA history to do so. Last year’s men’s Nordic titles were split between Colorado’s Matt Gelso, who claimed the 10-kilometer classical title, and Vermont’s Franz Bernstein, who won the 20-kilometer freestyle race.
On the Alpine side, giant slalom titles were won by Eva Huckova of the University of Utah and Leif Kristian Haugen of Denver. Andreas Adde claimed the men’s slalom individual title for the University of Alaska Anchorage while Malin Hemmingsson claimed her second consecutive women’s slalom title for New Mexico.

