NCAA MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SKIING COMMITTEE



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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Mark Bedics

Associate Director of Media Coordination and Championships

317/917-6222

NCAA MEN’S AND WOMEN’S SKIING COMMITTEE

ANNOUNCES SELECTIONS FOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Skiing Committee announced today the 74 men and 74 women selected to participate in the 2010 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Skiing Championships, to be held March 10-13 at the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and Howelsen Hill Ski Area in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The championships will be hosted by the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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.

Alpine events will run March 10 and 12 at Steamboat Springs. The men’s and women’s giant slaloms will be held March 10 at Mt. Werner, with the men’s and women’s slaloms conducted March 12 at Howelsen Hill.

Nordic events will be held March 11 and 13 at Howelsen Hill. The men’s 10-kilometer and women’s five-kilometer classical cross-country races will be conducted March 11. The women’s 15-kilometer and men’s 20-kilometer freestyle races will be held March 13.

Highlights of the skiing championships will be shown on CBS at 1 p.m. Eastern time, Saturday, May 1. CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA will feature highlights of 17 different NCAA championships, each taking place during the winter season.

PARTICIPANTS BY DISCIPLINE AND REGION (listed alphabetically by name):

ALPINE

|East Region – Men |East Region – Women |

|Paul Atkinson, New Hampshire |Veronique Archambault-Leger, New Hampshire |

|Chris Colpitts, Vermont |Dana Breakstone, Colby |

|Mike Cremeno, New Hampshire |Laurel Carter, Williams |

|David Donaldson, Vermont |Ashley-Kate Durham, St. Lawrence |

|Alex Dyroff, Williams |Nicole Dvorak, Middlebury |

|Willie Ford, New Hampshire |Aileen Farrell, New Hampshire |

|Erik Gilbert, Vermont |Courtney Hammond, Dartmouth |

|Brad Harden, St. Michael’s |Lyndee Janowiak, Vermont |

|Bump Heldman, Bates |Valerie Kechian, Vermont |

|Josh Kernan, Colby |Marie-Elaine Lepine, New Hampshire |

|Trevor Leafe, Dartmouth |Geordie Lonza, Williams |

|Vincent Lebrun-Fortin, Colby |Emily Porter, Williams |

|Jacob Lund, Middlebury |Annie Rendall, Dartmouth |

|Ben Manter, Bates |Kelsey Roddick, Dartmouth |

|Luke McLaughry, Dartmouth |Meg Ryley, Vermont |

|Bobby Poehling, Middlebury |Tasha Woodworth, Middlebury |

|Bryan Shpall, Middlebury | |

|Ace Tarberry, Dartmouth | |

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|West Region – Men |West Region – Women |

|Christopher Acosta, New Mexico |Anne Cecilie Brusletto, New Mexico |

|Andreas Adde, Alaska Anchorage |Lindsay Cone, Denver |

|AJ Avrin, Denver |Ida Dillingoen, Denver |

|Chris Barber, Montana State |Kayla Fry, Alaska Anchorage |

|Petter Brenna, New Mexico |Petra Gantnerova, Alaska Anchorage |

|Halfdan Falkum-Hansen, Alaska Anchorage |Erika Ghent, Colorado |

|Martin Harris, Nevada |Amy Harris, Nevada |

|Andreas Kilde, Denver |Katie Hartman, Colorado |

|Leif Kristian Haugen, Denver |Malin Hemmingsson, New Mexico |

|Torjus Krogdahl, Utah |Erika Horst, Nevada |

|Kyle Kung, Utah |Eva Huckova, Utah |

|Max Lamb, Utah |Anna Kocken, Utah |

|Michael Mackie, Montana State |Amy Lattimer, Montana State |

|Spencer Nelson, Colorado |Carolina Nordh, Colorado |

|Gabriel Rivas, Colorado |Alex Parker, Alaska Anchorage |

|Drew Roberts, Colorado |Nicole Poleschuk, Nevada |

|Thomas Schwab, New Mexico |Sofia Smith, Utah |

| |Jennie VanWagner, Denver |

| |Kate Williams, New Mexico |

| | |

NORDIC

|Central Region – Men |Central Region – Women |

|Chris Bowler, Northern Michigan |Laura DeWitt, Northern Michigan |

|Jens Brabbit, Gustavus Adolphus |Carolyn Freeman, Green Bay |

|George Cartwright, Northern Michigan |Christina Gillis, Northern Michigan |

|Kevin Cutts, Northern Michigan |Aurelia Korthauer, Alaska Fairbanks |

|Tyler Kornfield, Alaska Fairbanks |Monica Markvardsen, Northern Michigan |

|Oskar Lund, Michigan Tech |Henna Riikonen-Purtsi, Michigan Tech |

|Santiago Ocariz, Green Bay |Theresia Schnurr, Alaska Fairbanks |

|John Parry, Alaska Fairbanks | |

|East Region – Men |East Region – Women |

|Franz Bernstein, Vermont |Anya Bean, New Hampshire |

|Wyatt Fereday, Colby |Jennie Bender, Vermont |

|Patrick Johnson, Middlebury |Katie Bono, Dartmouth |

|Benjamin Knowles, St. Lawrence |Rosie Brennan, Dartmouth |

|Nils Koons, Dartmouth |Caitlin Curran, Vermont |

|Dimitri Lüthi, Williams |Claire Egan, Wellesley |

|Dylan McGuffin, New Hampshire |Lauren Fritz, Middlebury |

|Patrick O’Brien, Dartmouth |Lucy Garrec, Colby |

|Eric Packer, Dartmouth |Natasha Kullas, New Hampshire |

|Zachary Wetherell, St. Lawrence |Alice Nelson, Williams |

|Eric Wolcott, St. Lawrence |Caitlin Patterson, Vermont |

| |Natalie Ruppertsberger, Bates |

| |Ida Sargent, Dartmouth |

|West Region – Men |West Region – Women |

|Elias Bucher, Nevada |Jaime Bronga, Alaska Anchorage |

|Tor Christopherson, Alaska Anchorage |Kate Dolan, Denver |

|Andrew Dougherty, Denver |Mari Elden, Denver |

|Matt Gelso, Colorado |Polina Ermoshina, New Mexico |

|Tor-Hakon Hellebostad, New Mexico |Maria Graefnings, Nevada |

|Miles Havlick, Utah |Eliska Hajkova, Colorado |

|Martin Kaas, New Mexico |Steffi Hiemer, Alaska Anchorage |

|Vegard Kjoelhamar, Colorado |Rose Kemp, Utah |

|Martin Liljemark, Utah |Kaelin Kiesel, Montana State |

|Harald Loevenskiold, Denver |Linn Klaesson, New Mexico |

|Pierre Niess, New Mexico |Casey Kutz, Montana State |

|Jesper Ostensen, Colorado |Sarah MacCarthy, Utah |

|Tyler Reinking, Montana State |Antje Maempel, Denver |

|Bernhard Roenning, Montana State |Mellie Park, Montana State |

|Michael Schallinger, Alaska Anchorage |Joanne Reid, Colorado |

|Ryan Scott, Montana State |Laura Rombach, Alaska Anchorage |

|Charlie Smith, Nevada |Kristin Ronnestrand, Nevada |

|Didrik Smith, Utah |Zoe Roy, Utah |

|Kristian Soerlund, Denver |Alexa Turzian, Colorado |

|Lex Treinen, Alaska Anchorage | |

PARTICIPANTS BY INSTITUTION

| |Men’s |Women’s Alpine |Men’s |Women’s Nordic | |

|Institution |Alpine | |Nordic | |Total |

|Alaska Anchorage |2 |3 |3 |3 |11 |

|Alaska Fairbanks |0 |0 |2 |2 |4 |

|Bates |2 |0 |0 |1 |3 |

|Colby |2 |1 |1 |1 |5 |

|Colorado |3 |3 |3 |3 |12 |

|Dartmouth |3 |3 |3 |3 |12 |

|Denver |3 |3 |3 |3 |12 |

|Green Bay |0 |0 |1 |1 |2 |

|Gustavus Adolphus |0 |0 |1 |0 |1 |

|Michigan Tech |0 |0 |1 |1 |2 |

|Middlebury |3 |2 |1 |1 |7 |

|Montana State |2 |1 |3 |3 |9 |

|Nevada |1 |3 |2 |2 |8 |

|New Hampshire |3 |3 |1 |2 |9 |

|New Mexico |3 |3 |3 |2 |11 |

|Northern Michigan |0 |0 |3 |3 |6 |

|St. Lawrence |0 |1 |3 |0 |4 |

|St. Michael’s |1 |0 |0 |0 |1 |

|Utah |3 |3 |3 |3 |12 |

|Vermont |3 |3 |1 |3 |10 |

|Wellesley |0 |0 |0 |1 |1 |

|Williams |1 |3 |1 |1 |6 |

The University of Denver will enter the 2010 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Skiing Championships as the two-time defending champion after claiming its record 20th title at last year’s championships in Maine. The Pioneers earned 659 team points, finishing more than 56 points ahead of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who claimed the second-place position. The University of New Mexico finished just a half point behind Colorado to finish third.

Denver’s Antje Maempel claimed individual titles in both of the women’s Nordic events, while the men’s Nordic titles were split between Vermont’s Juergen Uhl, who claimed the 10-kilometer classical title, and Colorado’s Vegard Kjoelhamar, who won the 20-kilometer freestyle race.

On the Alpine side, giant slalom titles were won by Lindsay Cone of St. Lawrence University and David Donaldson of the University of Vermont. Gabriel Rivas claimed the men’s slalom individual title for Colorado while Malin Hemmingsson brought the women’s title home for the University of New Mexico.

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