This thread will be used for news and comments re the 2024 NCAA Skiing Championships. More info and links will be provided as they become available.
It was announced today that the Buffs have been awarded a full 12 member team for this year's NCAA Championships, which they are hosting this year in Steamboat Springs from Wednesday, March 6th through Saturday, March 9th.
As in prior years, live streaming of all races is scheduled to be available on the NCAA website. (Links will be provided below.)
Go Buffs!!!
Article on the Buffs being selected, and who the coaches have decided will race for the team in Utah -
Direct link - https://cubuffs.com/news/2024/2/27/skiing-buffs-qualify-full-team-for-ncaa-championships
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BOULDER – The Colorado Buffaloes have qualified a full 12-skier team for the NCAA Championships, which the school will host at Steamboat Springs March 6-9, and this year's squad is a mixture of experienced veterans and newcomers.
Potentially one of the harder years to pick the team, especially on the alpine side, the Buffs team will consist of Etienne Mazellier, Ryder Sarchett and Filip Wahlqvist for men's alpine, Denise Dingsleder, Magdalena Luczak and Julia Toiviainen for women's alpine, Magnus Boee, Johannes Flaaten and Will Koch for men's Nordic and Hanna Abrahamsson, Anna-Maria Dietze and Weronika Kaleta for women's Nordic.
The alpine teams consist of six skiers who did not compete for the Buffs last season at the NCAA Championships, but all three of the women have competed at NCAAs before. The men's team is consisted of three freshmen. Five of the six Nordic skiers have a combined 15 appearances entering this year's championship and have a combined 19 All-America honors between them.
Luczak competed two years ago for CU and won the individual GS Championships, and Dingsleder and Toiviainen have both competed at multiple NCAAs with Westminster earlier in their careers. All three are All-Americans and have a combined six All-America honors at the NCAA Championships, including four first-team nods.
The men's alpine team consists of three freshmen, but three who have competed the most consistently for the Buffaloes throughout the season. Wahlqvist is headed to Steamboat as the top overall seed in men's alpine and will have a top seeding position in both races. Mazellier has been consistent, finishing each of his last nine races and none lower than 15th with five top 10 and three top five finishes in that time. Sarchett missed some time while winning a junior world championship, and in college has five top 15 finishes in six races with a top five finish in each discipline, including one win. He will also be making his World Cup debut this weekend in Aspen. The trio have collectively finished 27 of 31 races on the season.
The Nordic teams, on the other hand, have a great deal of NCAA experience for the Buffaloes, with five of the ski having skied at NCAAs each of the last two seasons and a Boee and Dietze will be competing in their fifth NCAA Championship.
Abrahamsson, Dietze and Kaleta will represent the Buffs as a trio for the third time and this will be Kaleta's fourth appearance and Dietze's fifth. All three have been All-Americans and have a collective nine All-America honors between them including four first-team honors.
Like those three, Boee and Koch have been staples on the men's side and this will be their fourth appearance together. The two have a combined 10 All-America honors and Boee is a two-time NCAA individual champion. Flaaten is the newcomer of the group and has put together an impressive season finishing in the top 15 in all 11 races so far and in the top eight of the last seven races with three top five performances.
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NCAA's selection release - https://www.ncaa.com/news/skiing/article/2024-02-27/2024-ncaa-skiing-championship-field-announced
(From that, the Buffs are joined by Utah, Denver, Dartmouth and Vermont in having a maximum 12 member team competing at the Championships, with New Hampshire (11 competitors), Alaska - Anchorage (10), Montana State (9) and Middlebury (9) the other schools with more than 7 qualified to compete in Steamboat, with I assume the team podium spots and battle to be the overall Champion to be competed between these schools.)
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Just pasting what I wrote in prior years about how the Championships are scored:
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Since I always forget the scoring system in skiing, I have posted the below in various prior years' threads. (I'm assuming/ hoping there's no change this year.) -
"Scoring in NCAA Skiing- the top 30 finishers of each race earn points. The scores earned for the top 8 finishers from 1st through 8th are 40 (for 1st place)-37-34-31-29-27-25-23. After that, the 9th through 30th places earn one point less for each lower place finish, so for example 9th place earns 22 points, 10th place 21 points, etc., all the way down to the 30th place finisher, who earns 1 point."
(Note-at the NCAA championships, teams can only bring 3 athletes of each gender for each type of skiing (Alpine and Nordic), so all their finishes count. For earlier season races with more than 3 racers per team competing in each event, only the top 3 finishers for each team get their finishes counted when calculating their (and other) team's score.)"
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NCAA Skiing homepage - https://www.ncaa.com/sports/skiing
NCAA's general release on the Championships - https://www.ncaa.com/news/skiing/ar...iing-championships-schedule-how-watch-results
NCAA's Championships program - https://www.ncaa.com/NCSkiing
Buffs' Links page for all the Championship races (video, live timings, etc.) - https://cubuffs.com/sports/2024/2/14/2024-ncaa-ski-championships
Buffs' Championships Notes document - https://cubuffs.com/documents/2024/3/6/CU_Notes_2024_NCAA_Championship_Notes-FINAL.pdf
Schedule (I will edit this section as more detail becomes available.):
(I can't find a detailed schedule right not now with start times. The general schedule, per the NCAA release linked to above, is:
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Wednesday, March 6
Live timings and scores (Links from NCAA Championships homepage linked to above.) -
(I will enter info for this section as it becomes available.)
Team scores - Don't know if they'll be "live" results, but looks like accumulated team scoring and final accumulated results after each race is completed will be available at https://www.rmisaskiing.com/meet-live.php?s=2024 ,
For live timings:
Alpine races (Scheduled for Wednesday and Friday) -
(Usual General (standard) link for Alpine races. https://livetiming.usskiandsnowboard.org/ )
Wednesday's Giant Slaloms :
Men's (1st run scheduled to begin at 9:30 AM MT; 2nd at 12:30 PM. ) - https://www.live-timing.com/race2.php?r=263239
Women's (1st run scheduled to begin at 10:30 AM MT; 2nd at 1:30 PM.) - https://www.live-timing.com/race2.php?r=263238
Friday's slalom -
Women's (1st run scheduled to begin at 6:40 PM MT; 2nd at 9:00 PM.) - https://www.live-timing.com/race2.php?r=263599
Men's (1st run scheduled to begin at 7:20 PM MT; 2nd at 9:30 PM. ) - https://www.live-timing.com/race2.php?r=263600
Nordic (AKA Cross Country) races (Scheduled for Thursday and Saturday. Link to homepage from where hopefully live results will be available is ???):
Thursday's (shorter) Freestyle:
Men's 7.5Km (10:00 AM MT scheduled start. ) - https://my.raceresult.com/277643/
Women's 7.5Km (??? scheduled start.. Same link as men's. Most of the time that means there will be a drop down menu to filter the results by gender.) - https://my.raceresult.com/277643/
Saturday's (longer) Classic -
Women's 20K (10:00 AM MT scheduled start.) - https://my.raceresult.com/277654/
Men's 20K (Noon MT scheduled start. Same link as women's. Most of the time that means there will be a drop down menu to filter the results by gender.) - https://my.raceresult.com/277654/
Free NCAA live video coverage (If for any reason any of the below links don't work, the general link for NCAA live videos is https://www.ncaa.com/liveschedule/ .):
Wednesday - https://www.ncaa.com/event/4394
Thursday - https://www.ncaa.com/event/4395
Friday - https://www.ncaa.com/event/4396
Saturday - https://www.ncaa.com/event/4397
It was announced today that the Buffs have been awarded a full 12 member team for this year's NCAA Championships, which they are hosting this year in Steamboat Springs from Wednesday, March 6th through Saturday, March 9th.
As in prior years, live streaming of all races is scheduled to be available on the NCAA website. (Links will be provided below.)
Go Buffs!!!
Article on the Buffs being selected, and who the coaches have decided will race for the team in Utah -
Direct link - https://cubuffs.com/news/2024/2/27/skiing-buffs-qualify-full-team-for-ncaa-championships
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BOULDER – The Colorado Buffaloes have qualified a full 12-skier team for the NCAA Championships, which the school will host at Steamboat Springs March 6-9, and this year's squad is a mixture of experienced veterans and newcomers.
Potentially one of the harder years to pick the team, especially on the alpine side, the Buffs team will consist of Etienne Mazellier, Ryder Sarchett and Filip Wahlqvist for men's alpine, Denise Dingsleder, Magdalena Luczak and Julia Toiviainen for women's alpine, Magnus Boee, Johannes Flaaten and Will Koch for men's Nordic and Hanna Abrahamsson, Anna-Maria Dietze and Weronika Kaleta for women's Nordic.
The alpine teams consist of six skiers who did not compete for the Buffs last season at the NCAA Championships, but all three of the women have competed at NCAAs before. The men's team is consisted of three freshmen. Five of the six Nordic skiers have a combined 15 appearances entering this year's championship and have a combined 19 All-America honors between them.
Luczak competed two years ago for CU and won the individual GS Championships, and Dingsleder and Toiviainen have both competed at multiple NCAAs with Westminster earlier in their careers. All three are All-Americans and have a combined six All-America honors at the NCAA Championships, including four first-team nods.
The men's alpine team consists of three freshmen, but three who have competed the most consistently for the Buffaloes throughout the season. Wahlqvist is headed to Steamboat as the top overall seed in men's alpine and will have a top seeding position in both races. Mazellier has been consistent, finishing each of his last nine races and none lower than 15th with five top 10 and three top five finishes in that time. Sarchett missed some time while winning a junior world championship, and in college has five top 15 finishes in six races with a top five finish in each discipline, including one win. He will also be making his World Cup debut this weekend in Aspen. The trio have collectively finished 27 of 31 races on the season.
The Nordic teams, on the other hand, have a great deal of NCAA experience for the Buffaloes, with five of the ski having skied at NCAAs each of the last two seasons and a Boee and Dietze will be competing in their fifth NCAA Championship.
Abrahamsson, Dietze and Kaleta will represent the Buffs as a trio for the third time and this will be Kaleta's fourth appearance and Dietze's fifth. All three have been All-Americans and have a collective nine All-America honors between them including four first-team honors.
Like those three, Boee and Koch have been staples on the men's side and this will be their fourth appearance together. The two have a combined 10 All-America honors and Boee is a two-time NCAA individual champion. Flaaten is the newcomer of the group and has put together an impressive season finishing in the top 15 in all 11 races so far and in the top eight of the last seven races with three top five performances.
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NCAA's selection release - https://www.ncaa.com/news/skiing/article/2024-02-27/2024-ncaa-skiing-championship-field-announced
(From that, the Buffs are joined by Utah, Denver, Dartmouth and Vermont in having a maximum 12 member team competing at the Championships, with New Hampshire (11 competitors), Alaska - Anchorage (10), Montana State (9) and Middlebury (9) the other schools with more than 7 qualified to compete in Steamboat, with I assume the team podium spots and battle to be the overall Champion to be competed between these schools.)
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Just pasting what I wrote in prior years about how the Championships are scored:
"
Since I always forget the scoring system in skiing, I have posted the below in various prior years' threads. (I'm assuming/ hoping there's no change this year.) -
"Scoring in NCAA Skiing- the top 30 finishers of each race earn points. The scores earned for the top 8 finishers from 1st through 8th are 40 (for 1st place)-37-34-31-29-27-25-23. After that, the 9th through 30th places earn one point less for each lower place finish, so for example 9th place earns 22 points, 10th place 21 points, etc., all the way down to the 30th place finisher, who earns 1 point."
(Note-at the NCAA championships, teams can only bring 3 athletes of each gender for each type of skiing (Alpine and Nordic), so all their finishes count. For earlier season races with more than 3 racers per team competing in each event, only the top 3 finishers for each team get their finishes counted when calculating their (and other) team's score.)"
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Some more Championships information and links:
NCAA Skiing homepage - https://www.ncaa.com/sports/skiing
NCAA's general release on the Championships - https://www.ncaa.com/news/skiing/ar...iing-championships-schedule-how-watch-results
NCAA's Championships program - https://www.ncaa.com/NCSkiing
Buffs' Links page for all the Championship races (video, live timings, etc.) - https://cubuffs.com/sports/2024/2/14/2024-ncaa-ski-championships
Buffs' Championships Notes document - https://cubuffs.com/documents/2024/3/6/CU_Notes_2024_NCAA_Championship_Notes-FINAL.pdf
Schedule (I will edit this section as more detail becomes available.):
(I can't find a detailed schedule right not now with start times. The general schedule, per the NCAA release linked to above, is:
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Wednesday, March 6
- Men’s Giant Slalom (1st run scheduled to begin at 9:30 AM MT and 2nd at 12:30 PM MT.)
- Women's Giant Slalom (1st run scheduled to begin at 10:30 AM MT and 2nd at 1:30 PM MT.)
- Men’s 7.5 km Individual Freestyle (10:00 AM MT)
- Women’s 7.5 km Individual Freestyle (Noon MT)
- Women’s Slalom (1st run scheduled to begin at 6:40 PM MT and 2nd at 9:00 PM)
- Men’s Slalom (1st run scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM MT and 2nd at 9:30 PM)
- Women’s 20 km Mass Start Classical (10:00 AM MT)
- Men’s 20 km Mass Start Classical (Noon MT)
Live timings and scores (Links from NCAA Championships homepage linked to above.) -
(I will enter info for this section as it becomes available.)
Team scores - Don't know if they'll be "live" results, but looks like accumulated team scoring and final accumulated results after each race is completed will be available at https://www.rmisaskiing.com/meet-live.php?s=2024 ,
For live timings:
Alpine races (Scheduled for Wednesday and Friday) -
(Usual General (standard) link for Alpine races. https://livetiming.usskiandsnowboard.org/ )
Wednesday's Giant Slaloms :
Men's (1st run scheduled to begin at 9:30 AM MT; 2nd at 12:30 PM. ) - https://www.live-timing.com/race2.php?r=263239
Women's (1st run scheduled to begin at 10:30 AM MT; 2nd at 1:30 PM.) - https://www.live-timing.com/race2.php?r=263238
Friday's slalom -
Women's (1st run scheduled to begin at 6:40 PM MT; 2nd at 9:00 PM.) - https://www.live-timing.com/race2.php?r=263599
Men's (1st run scheduled to begin at 7:20 PM MT; 2nd at 9:30 PM. ) - https://www.live-timing.com/race2.php?r=263600
Nordic (AKA Cross Country) races (Scheduled for Thursday and Saturday. Link to homepage from where hopefully live results will be available is ???):
Thursday's (shorter) Freestyle:
Men's 7.5Km (10:00 AM MT scheduled start. ) - https://my.raceresult.com/277643/
Women's 7.5Km (??? scheduled start.. Same link as men's. Most of the time that means there will be a drop down menu to filter the results by gender.) - https://my.raceresult.com/277643/
Saturday's (longer) Classic -
Women's 20K (10:00 AM MT scheduled start.) - https://my.raceresult.com/277654/
Men's 20K (Noon MT scheduled start. Same link as women's. Most of the time that means there will be a drop down menu to filter the results by gender.) - https://my.raceresult.com/277654/
Free NCAA live video coverage (If for any reason any of the below links don't work, the general link for NCAA live videos is https://www.ncaa.com/liveschedule/ .):
Wednesday - https://www.ncaa.com/event/4394
Thursday - https://www.ncaa.com/event/4395
Friday - https://www.ncaa.com/event/4396
Saturday - https://www.ncaa.com/event/4397
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