Dartmouth Qualifies Complete Team for NCAAs; All-East Teams Named

HANOVER, N.H. — The NCAA announced the complete field of skiers that will compete at the Skiing Championship in Stowe, Vermont, on March 6-9, and for the fourth straight year, Dartmouth will have the full complement of 12 skiers competing for a national title.

As one of the six schools with a maximum allowance of skiers participating, Dartmouth is in a strong position to make a run for its fourth national title. Other schools featuring a dozen skiers are Colorado, Middlebury, New Mexico, Utah and the defending champion, Denver.

Since the Big Green last won the championship in 2007, Colorado and Denver have dominated as the two schools have combined to win nine of the last 11 years with the Pioneers earning five. Vermont was the only team to break that stranglehold, besting the field by a whopping 161 points in 2012, before Utah claimed the crown in 2017. And other than that last Dartmouth crown and the Catamounts' in 2012, no other team from the East has won the title in the past 24 years.

The Big Green may be even stronger than they were last year when they finished third at the championship and won four individual titles. Three of those titles return to the powder this year in the form of junior Tanguy Nef (Geneva, Switzerland), the 2018 men's slalom champion, and sophomore Katharine Ogden (Landgrove, Vt.), who won the women's classical and freestyle races to become the first Dartmouth skier in 56 years to win two NCAA championship races in one year.

Of the dozen Big Green skiers competing, eight are returning to the NCAA stage while another has Olympic experience under her belt. Nef, who also finished second in the giant slalom last year, won all four of his slalom races this winter during the carnivals, making him the top-ranked skier from the East in the slalom. He will be joined by sophomore Drew Duffy (Waitsfield, Vt.), the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) Men's Alpine Rookie of the Year and GS leader, and senior James Ferri (Simsbury, Conn.) who overcame injuries throughout his career and won the GS at the East Regional this past weekend. Duffy is the East's top-ranked skier overall with Nef fifth and Ferri sixth.

For the women on the slopes, senior Alexa Dlouhy (Montreal, Quebec) is making her fourth trip to the NCAA Championship and earned All-America honors in the slalom each of her first three years. This year she won the slalom twice and the GS another time to earn the top ranking among the East's female alpine skiers. The EISA women's alpine Rookie of the Year is also a Dartmouth skier in sophomore Tricia Mangan (Buffalo, N.Y.), fresh off her 2018 appearance at the Winter Olympics. She is the second-ranked skier in the East having finished second in five races — three in the GS and her last two slalom runs. Rounding out the team will be junior Stephanie Currie (Toronto, Ontario), an NCAA veteran who grabbed four podiums and finished in the top seven 10 times to be the fourth-ranked skier in the East.

While the women's alpine team has three of the four top-ranked skiers in the region, the women's Nordic team may be able to match that firepower. All three competed at the NCAA Championship last year, and all three earned All-America honors in at least one of the races. Though Ogden is "only" ranked second in the East behind Vermont's Evelina Sutro, she will be the one everyone is chasing after her two wins last year. She continued her dominance this winter by extending her win streak in classical races to seven dating back to last year while standing on the podium in all seven of the races she entered. Senior Lydia Blanchet (Anchorage, Alaska) and junior Lauren Jortberg (Boulder, Colo.) are ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, as the duo combined for five podiums and finished in the top-nine in every race.

The men's Nordic team will be led by senior Callan DeLine (Avon, Colo.), who earned All-America status in both freestyle and classical last year. He started off slow this winter, but has surged of late, claiming a podium step in his last two classical races. Another NCAA veteran returning to compete is senior Gavin McEwen (Weston, Mass.) with sophomore and Hanover native Adam Glueck making his first appearance at the championship.

The EISA also announced their postseason awards after the regional last week, including the All-East teams, with Dartmouth having 15 skiers earn a spot on the first or second team:

EISA All-East Teams
First Team Alpine	First Team Nordic	Second Team Alpine	Second Team Nordic
Stephanie Currie	Lydia Blanchet	David Domonoske	Leah Brams
Alexa Dlouhy	Lauren Jortberg	James Ferri	Callan Deline
Drew Duffy	Katharine Ogden	Claire Thomas	Molly Gellert
Tricia Mangan			Taryn Hunt-Smith
Tanguy Nef

As noted previously, Duffy and Mangan were named the EISA Male and Female Alpine Rookies of the Year, respectively. The bib leaders were all from Dartmouth as well with Duffy (men's GS), Currie (women's GS), Nef (men's slalom) and Dlouhy (women's slalom) garnering the honors.

The NCAA Championships, webcast live on NCAA.com, will begin on March 6 with the Nordic races taking place at Trapp Family Lodge on the first and third days, while the alpine races will take place at Stowe Mountain Resort on March 7 and 9.

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