Ogden Places Fourth, Dartmouth in Sixth After First Day of NCAAs

Wednesday, March 6

Stowe, Vt.

10:00 AM

Dartmouth College

NCAA Day One

Lydia Blanchet (left) and Katharine Ogden strain to cross the finish line

Photo by: Clarkson Creative

Ogden Places Fourth, Dartmouth in Sixth After First Day of NCAAs

3/6/2019 1:02:00 PM | Skiing

Freestyle Results and Standings Photos

Katharine Ogden shined in the women's 5K freestyle by placing fourth

By: Rick Bender

STOWE, Vt. — Sophomore Katharine Ogden finished fourth in the women's 5K freestyle race at the NCAA Skiing Championships on Wednesday afternoon, held at the Trapp Family Lodge, to help Dartmouth finish the day in sixth place with 91 points, just one behind Denver in fifth. Utah holds a slim lead, 142-141, over host Vermont after the first of four days of events, with Colorado (120) and Northern Michigan (117) in third and fourth, respectively.

By finishing fourth, Ogden earned a spot on the All-America First Team for the third time in her career, having won both the freestyle and classical races as a freshman at last year's championships.

The three Big Green skiers were among the final 15 skiers to launch from the interval start with 30 seconds between each skier. At the 2K mark, however, junior Lauren Jortberg had the Big Green's best time and was in third, just four seconds off the pace set by Vermont's Evelina Sutro. Ogden was in ninth, and senior Lydia Blanchet was running 15th.

Ogden was behind even further at the halfway point in 11th, more than 20 seconds behind Sutro, who was still in front. But she turned on the jets for the last half of the race, moving ahead of seven others and nearly catching the leaders, eventually coming up 6.2 seconds short of Utah's Julia Richter, who won with a time of 13:28.3. She just edged out Denver's Jasmi Joensuu by one second and Sutro by 1.1 seconds.

Jortberg, meanwhile, dropped back to 12th place in 14:04.3 with Blanchet right behind her in 14:05.4 in 13th. Combined with Ogden's fourth-place finish in 13:34.5, Dartmouth earned 68 points, third behind Utah (82) and Vermont (81).

The men's 10K freestyle took place in the morning, and seniors Gavin McEwen and Callan Deline finished just two seconds apart in 19th (25:22.3) and 20th (25:24.3) place, respectively, to lead the Big Green trio of skiers. Sophomore Adam Glueck, the lone Dartmouth competitor making his NCAA debut today, crossed the tape in 26:33.4 to place 39th.

Colorado's Erik Olsvik Dengerud took the gold by nearly 20 seconds with a time of 24:25.5 with New Mexico's Kornelius Groev beating out Northern Michigan's Ian Torchia for second place by three-tenths of a second in 24:45.1. The Buffaloes won the event with 77 points while New Mexico was second with 70, and Vermont and Utah tied for third with 60 apiece.

The giant slalom will be raced on the second day of the championships, beginning with the women's first run at 9 a.m. at Stowe Mountain Resort.