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NCAA Championships
All-America Finishes Boost Dartmouth to Seventh Place at NCAA Skiing Championships
3/14/2009 12:00:00 AM | Skiing
RUMFORD, Maine ? Four top-ten finishers moved the Big Green of Dartmouth into a seventh-place team finish in the final day of competition at the NCAA Men's and Women's Skiing Championships here Saturday.
All three Dartmouth women placed in the top 10 in the 15-kilometer freestyle race, earning All America honors. Sophomore Rosie Brennan was Dartmouth's top finisher, in third place behind race winner Antje Maemple of Denver. Maemple won her second race of the championships, in 38:35.0. Dartmouth freshman Sophie Caldwell was fifth, and senior Hannah Dreissigacker was 10th.
"It was awesome to be in the lead pack, and be with my teammates," said Dreissigacker, the Big Green captain competing in her final collegiate race. "As I looked around and saw all three of us in that lead pack ... that showed how strong we are as a team."
Competing in her first NCAA Championships was Caldwell, a third-generation Dartmouth skier who admitted to a little bit of nerves before the race. "I was probably as nervous today as I've ever been before a race," said Caldwell, "because I've only run one other 15-k, and I didn't know if I could keep up with the pace. It was pretty relaxed for the first couple of laps, and for the last lap I just held on as well as I could."
Saturday's performances made up for what some saw as a disappointing classical race on Thursday, when Brennan finished fourth, Caldwell ninth and Dreissigacker 18th. "I think they got the jitters out on Thursday," said Dartmouth head coach Cami Thompson. "None of them felt great, but by the end of the race they knew they could ski with anyone. Today, they all proved they could be in it."
On the men's side, junior Patrick O'Brien was Dartmouth's fourth cross country All American performer, taking seventh place in the 20-kilometer freestyle, 36 seconds behind winner Vegard Kjoelhamer of Colorado. Kjelhamer cruised to the championship in 44:07.9. Big Green sophomore Nils Koons was 14th; senior Glenn Randall ? the 2008 men's freestyle champion ? was 18th.
The strong cross country performance bumped the Big Green up one place in the final team standings. Denver, which led after the first day and trailed Vermont by one point going into Saturday's final event, won the team title with 659 points. Colorado was second with 602.5, a narrow half-point ahead of New Mexico with 602. Alaska-Anchorage and Vermont rounded out the top five, with Utah in sixth ahead of the Big Green.
For complete NCAA Championship results, visit the EISA web site at http://eisaskiing.org/BART/Results09/ncaa2009tm.htm
All three Dartmouth women placed in the top 10 in the 15-kilometer freestyle race, earning All America honors. Sophomore Rosie Brennan was Dartmouth's top finisher, in third place behind race winner Antje Maemple of Denver. Maemple won her second race of the championships, in 38:35.0. Dartmouth freshman Sophie Caldwell was fifth, and senior Hannah Dreissigacker was 10th.
"It was awesome to be in the lead pack, and be with my teammates," said Dreissigacker, the Big Green captain competing in her final collegiate race. "As I looked around and saw all three of us in that lead pack ... that showed how strong we are as a team."
Competing in her first NCAA Championships was Caldwell, a third-generation Dartmouth skier who admitted to a little bit of nerves before the race. "I was probably as nervous today as I've ever been before a race," said Caldwell, "because I've only run one other 15-k, and I didn't know if I could keep up with the pace. It was pretty relaxed for the first couple of laps, and for the last lap I just held on as well as I could."
Saturday's performances made up for what some saw as a disappointing classical race on Thursday, when Brennan finished fourth, Caldwell ninth and Dreissigacker 18th. "I think they got the jitters out on Thursday," said Dartmouth head coach Cami Thompson. "None of them felt great, but by the end of the race they knew they could ski with anyone. Today, they all proved they could be in it."
On the men's side, junior Patrick O'Brien was Dartmouth's fourth cross country All American performer, taking seventh place in the 20-kilometer freestyle, 36 seconds behind winner Vegard Kjoelhamer of Colorado. Kjelhamer cruised to the championship in 44:07.9. Big Green sophomore Nils Koons was 14th; senior Glenn Randall ? the 2008 men's freestyle champion ? was 18th.
The strong cross country performance bumped the Big Green up one place in the final team standings. Denver, which led after the first day and trailed Vermont by one point going into Saturday's final event, won the team title with 659 points. Colorado was second with 602.5, a narrow half-point ahead of New Mexico with 602. Alaska-Anchorage and Vermont rounded out the top five, with Utah in sixth ahead of the Big Green.
For complete NCAA Championship results, visit the EISA web site at http://eisaskiing.org/BART/Results09/ncaa2009tm.htm
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