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CUBuffs.com: Buff Alpine & Nordic Teams Set For Racing (and early 2017/18 season ski results)

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AztecBuff Note - Thought I would, in addition to forwarding this cool article on the ski team's season starting, use this one thread to report IN ONE PLACE the early/ regular season results for the various skiers. (Note the official Buff schedule (http://www.cubuffs.com/schedule.aspx?path=ski) only shows the (I assume more serious?) races starting in early January.)


Colorado's ski team to race for the first time this winter in upcoming FIS events


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As noted above, I plan for this thread to be a "one stop shop" so we can report ALL the ski team's results (and any other major news that pops up) during their regular season.

From the above article, it will be interesting to see how two of their stars being away a lot of the early season as they pursue Olympic dreams might affect their (and their team) results later on. Assume it might even make them tougher, as I assume they'll be going up against some of the best in the world in their respective disciplines while competing in European and World Cup races.
 
After already having some individual's competing in various races late last year, looks like the Nordic group's season (or at least NCAA individual qualifying for the Nordic-side) more formally starts tomorrow in Alaska, while the Alpine skiers will be in Montana and formally start racing Saturday.

Good luck to all the ski Buffs!
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Note- Don't know if I'll be able to watch it, but can't remember too many opportunities to watch the skiing Buffs live via stream other than the NCAA Championships, so cool the Nordic races will be available to see a live stream of through (per the quote below) https://www.facebook.com/usskiandsnowboard/ . Per a schedule I found, https://www.anchoragenordicski.com/...11/2018-US-Nationals-Event-Schedule-Coast.pdf , the tentative (always of course heavily weather-dependent in skiing) schedule calls for Wednesday's and Friday's races to MAYBE start around 10:00 AM Alaska time (looks like that would be around 12:00 noon MT.), with competition (total between the women's AND men's races and the break between them) lasting for 1-1/2 to 2 hours total.

The schedule does recommend checking the event homepage (https://www.anchoragenordicski.com/nationals18/) for updates on time changes.

Edit- Live results for the Nordic races looks like they'll be available through http://www.superiortiming.com/ .

Also, as noted in the article quoted below, the Alpine races (at Montana's Big Sky Resort) will have live results (only) available through http://ussalivetiming.com . Can't see any detail schedule for those races yet, but assume host Montana State U. will be publishing an article soon (ltheir homepage is https://www.msubobcats.com/index.aspx?path=ski ) with more details, with their twitter account (https://NOPE/msubobcatskiing) being another possible resource. In general, Saturday is scheduled to be for individual NCAA qualifying point races, while Sunday and Monday may be the official days for the Invitational's Team scoring.

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Official preview article-

Direct link to preview article - http://www.cubuffs.com/news/2018/1/2/skiing-to-open-2018-ncaa-season-wednesday.aspx

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BOULDER — The Colorado ski team is set to open its 28th season under head coach Richard Rokosthis week when the Buffalo Nordic team competes at the U.S. Cross Country Championships in Anchorage, Alaska and at the alpine team at the Montana State Invitational.

Colorado's Nordic team, now in its 17th season under Head Nordic Coach Bruce Cranmer, will race in the 10- and 15-kilometer freestyle races on Jan. 3 and the freestyle sprint races on Jan. 5 at Kincaid Park. The races are being held independent of a team meet and will not be scored, but do count individually towards NCAA qualification in the same manner the RMISA qualifiers do for the student-athletes on the alpine side. Live video from the Cross Country Championships is available on the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/usskiandsnowboard/).

Racing for the Buffs on both days is scheduled to start at noon.

The alpine teams will be at Big Sky Resort and open on Saturday, Jan. 6 with the men's and women's RMISA giant slalom qualifier races. CU will follow on Sunday and Monday with the two days of the alpine events in the Montana State Invitational, a meet the Buffaloes have won six times in the 14 years it has operated.

Colorado won four individual races at last season's MSU Invite and claimed the meet by a 66½ point margin of victory.

Alpine live scoring will be available at http://ussalivetiming.com.

The Nordic portion of this year's Montana State Invitational will be held Jan. 13-14 at the Rendezvous Ski Trails in West Yellowstone.

The qualifier races, Nordic and alpine, are used as an extra opportunity for skiers to earn qualification points for the NCAA Championships at the end of the season. Colorado hosts both the RMISA (Feb. 23-25) and NCAA Championships (March 7-10) this winter at Steamboat Springs, Colo.
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Looks like the live results link in the above tweet is for Wednesday's races. The results for today's races looks to be accessible through http://my4.raceresult.com/88247/?lang=en . (Have to confess I don't know what the results mean in this one (what place is needed to qualify through what looks like various rounds, etc.).)
 
Article on today's races-

Direct link - http://www.cubuffs.com/news/2018/1/...shes-third-at-us-cross-country-nationals.aspx

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Colorado Buffalo Nordic team had five top 10 finishes in the freestyle sprint races on Friday that were being held in conjunction with the U.S. Cross Country Championships at Kincaid Park.

In these freestyle sprint races, there was a qualifying round that was followed up with quarterfinal and semifinal heats before the finals. Only the qualifying times counted towards RMISA qualification and official results, but skiers were able to advance on to the quarterfinal (top 30 from qualifier), semifinal and final heats.

Colorado saw Alvar Alev and Petter Reistad reach the quarterfinals of the men's race while Hedda Baangman, Petra Hyncicova and Christina Rolandsen all did so on the women's side. Colorado was one of just three intercollegiate programs to have three or more qualify for the quarterfinal heats, joined by Dartmouth (with four) and Alaska-Anchorage (three).

Hyncicova, who finished second in the qualifying round among RMISA athletes to record CU's top official result, was the lone Buff who advanced on past the quarterfinal round.

She made it all the way to the finals and there finished third to get on the podium at the U.S. Cross Country Championships that started out with 146 competitors Friday. Caitlin Patterson, who helped lead Vermont to the NCAA title back in 2012, won the finals while Denver University's Jasmi Joensuu edged out Hyncicova for second, topping Hyncicova's time of 3:25.12 by 0.23 seconds.
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WHAT IT MEANS: Hyncicova's podium finish at a strong competition will go down as a big result on her resume as she is working to qualify for the Czech Republic Olympic team.

"Well I hope it will help, but you never know," Hyncicova said when asked on how this result will affect her Olympic process. "There are some (Czech Republic) girls racing in the World Cup and in the European Cup, so it is about the coaches and what they decide. I just think that it was a good race today."

NEXT UP: The CU alpine team join the action with their first competition of the season, the RMISA Alpine Qualifier giant slalom races on Saturday at Big Sky Resort.
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There was lots of action today on the white stuff as both Nordic and Alpine teams were in action. Some highlights-
 
Article on today's races - http://www.cubuffs.com/news/2018/1/7/johansen-trulsrud-baangman-highlight-sundays-skiing-action.aspx

(In spite of the nice individual finishes by 2 of the Alpine Buffs (Johansen and Trulsrud), the Buffs are a slightly disappointing 4th overall, so a little catch-up will be needed tomorrow in Montana in the slalom races to get the team closer so the Nordic teams can have a chance to help lead the Buffs back to victory there next weekend.)

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BIG SKY, Mont. — Junior Ola Johansen won the men's giant slalom and classmate Tonje Trulsrudfinished second on the women's side to lead the Buffs on the opening day of the Montana State Invitational held at Big Sky Resort.

Despite the two top finishes, Colorado as a team stands in fourth place of the MSU Invite after two of eight events with 129 points. New Mexico is in the early lead with 173 points on the backing of two podium finishes (one apiece in the men's and women's race) and four total in the top five (two apiece, men and women).

For Johansen, this is his fourth career race victory and three of those have come in the giant slalom.

Trulsrud led the Buffalo women's team with her second place finish. She stood fourth after the first run, but her second run time of 1:05.53 was the second fastest in the field and allowed her to move up two spots and record the 10th podium finish of her career, eight of which have been in giant slalom races.

Also noteworthy from Sunday was Hedda Baangman of the women's Nordic team winning the women's 20K classic at the 2018 U.S. Cross Country Championships. Her time of 1:00:55.3 topped Caitlin Patterson, who earlier in the week had captured the 10K freestyle and freestyle sprint events, for the title. The race was not a part of the official NCAA circuit, but nonetheless a very impressive result capturing the title at a national championship race.

Christina Rolandsen finished eighth in the 20K race, Anne Siri Lervik ninth and Ane Johnsen 20th. The race took place at Kincaid Park in Anchorage, Alaska.
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NOTEWORTHY: Johansen had twice finished second in the giant slalom at his two previous MSU Invite appearances, but broke through on Sunday to finally win it. He stood second behind Utah's Samuel Dupratt after his first run with a time of 1:01.68. He was able to move ahead of him to win the race by beating Dupratt's second run time by three tenths of a second. Johansen's second run time of 1:05.45 was the third fastest overall in the field of collegiate racers.

WHAT IT MEANS: Colorado will have some ground to make up if it wants to win the MSU Invite for a second consecutive season. The Buffs have won the meet six times in its existence, which is the most of any RMISA program.

NEXT UP: The Buffs are back at the Big Sky Resort Monday for the running of the men's and women's slalom races. Live timing is available at www.ussalivetiming.com.
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Full Giant Slalom (GS) results from Montana - http://www.cubuffs.com/documents/2018/1/7//SKI_2018_MSU_INVITE.pdf
 
(Looks like, of course subject to change, the women's 1st run is scheduled to start at 10:00 AM and the men's at 11:00.)

Also, link to get to live results for a couple "classical sprint" races being held today that I believe finish off the action in Alaska for the Nordic crew - http://my4.raceresult.com/88835/?lang=en . (Don't see any indication on their Facebook page as to whether these races will be streamed or not, but if they're like other races in the U.S. Championships, a stream might become available whenever the races start at https://www.facebook.com/usskiandsnowboard/ . Looks like qualifying races are scheduled from noon to 1:30 MT and finals 2:45 to 6:00 (per https://www.anchoragenordicski.com/...11/2018-US-Nationals-Event-Schedule-Coast.pdf).)
 
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Article on yesterday's races-

Direct link - http://cubuffs.com/news/2018/1/18/skiing-nordic-team-makes-its-move-at-utah-invitational.aspx

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WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. — The Colorado men's and Nordic teams took first place in both the 5/10K classic races held Thursday at the Rendezvous Ski Trails, allowing the Buffs to close in on meet leader Denver at the Utah Invitational.

Colorado stood in third place after 4-of-8 events in the meet prior to Thursday, 56 points behind the leading Pioneers, but after winning both races Thursday the Buffaloes have closed to within six points of DU, 476-470. Colorado scored 197 points total from the two races Thursday, 108 on the women's side thanks to first-, second- and fourth-place finishes, and 89 from the men.
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NOTEWORTHY: In five races now during this NCAA season, the CU women's Nordic team has 19 top 10 finishes and that is 11 more than any other school has posted this winter (Denver, Utah and Montana State all have eight top 10 finishes).

WHAT IT MEANS: With Colorado closing to within six points of Denver with only the 15/20K freestyle events left to go, CU has the opportunity to win its 60th West Region regular season meet since skiing merged to a coed sport in 1983. Among all of the schools in the West, Colorado's 59 victories ranks second, slightly behind Utah, who holds the overall lead having won 59½ regular season meets. The Utes shared the 1985 Wyoming Invitational title with UW.

NEXT UP: The Utah Invitational is scheduled to conclude on Friday with the women's 15K freestyle and the men's 20K freestyle races.
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Live results for today's races-
Men's - http://raceresults.sportstats.us/display-results.xhtml?raceid=96088
(Not sure how they score these races, but looks like the Buffs MAY have gained a little ground on DU as DU's 3rd finisher was a bit back.)
Women's - http://raceresults.sportstats.us/display-results.xhtml?raceid=96089&status=leader
(Looks like race is on its last 5K. Surprisingly to me, DU was actually a little ahead after the last (10K) checkpoint.)
 
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