Dartmouth Completes NCAA Championships in Fourth Place

Saturday, March 9

Stowe, Vt.

9:00 AM

Dartmouth College

NCAA Day Four

Drew Duffy on his way to an eighth-place finish in the 2019 men's slalom

Sophomore Drew Duffy earned his second All-America honor of the 2019 NCAA Championships

Photo by: NCAA Photos via Getty Images

Dartmouth Completes NCAA Championships in Fourth Place

3/9/2019 4:01:00 PM | Skiing

Final Results and Standings

Drew Duffy earned second-team All-America honors in the men's slalom on the final day of the NCAA races

By: Rick Bender

STOWE, Vt. — The Dartmouth ski team saw its chances of catching Utah for the 2019 NCAA title slip away with the slalom races on the final day of the skiing championships, finishing fourth overall in the team standings with 447 points. The Utes, which entered the final day with a 65.5-point lead and 67.5 ahead of the Big Green, earned their second crown in the last three years by amassing 530.5 points. Host Vermont claimed second with 476 and Colorado just edged out Dartmouth for third with 455.

Sophomore Drew Duffy, the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association Men's Alpine Rookie of the Year, earned his second All-America honor of this year's championships by placing eighth in the men's slalom. In the women's slalom, senior Alexa Dlouhy missed out on making the All-America Second Team for a fourth straight year by 0.29 seconds, finishing 11th overall.

The men began the day at 9 a.m. with Duffy the third racer to hit the slopes at Mount Mansfield, ripping off a solid time of 49.29 seconds. Junior Tanguy Nef, who won the slalom last year and the giant slalom just two days ago, once again put together the best run in the field, taking the lead with his time of 47.99 seconds. The final Big Green skier, senior James Ferri, had some trouble navigating the course, leaving him in 25th at the completion of the first run in 54.79 seconds.

For the women's first run, sophomore Tricia Mangan — who picked up a podium in third in the giant slalom on Thursday — was first up in the field and zipped down the slopes in 55.98 seconds. Dlouhy was up eighth and bested that time at 54.77 seconds, but junior Stephanie Currie posted the fastest one for the Big Green in 54.61 seconds, good for ninth when the run was all said and done. Dlouhy found herself in a tie for 10th with two others and Mangan was back in 17th while Vermont's Laurence St. Germain set the pace (51.70) to lead the field by nearly two full seconds.

When the skiing resumed in the afternoon, Ferri fared much better with the ninth-fastest run in 53.42 seconds for a combined time of 1:49.58. But even with that improvement, he climbed up on three spots in the final standings into 22nd. Duffy had a solid second attempt and took the lead with his combined time of 1:42.97, but was by the very next skier, Max Roiesland of Vermont. That left Nef with the final run among the contenders. It was not to be for the Swiss native, however, as he slipped past a gate, and although he gamely hiked back up and completed the race, he fell all the way to 27th in 1:53.67. That allowed Jett Seymour of Denver, who was second after the first run, to claim the crown in 1:41.49, 0.67 seconds ahead of Liam Wallace from Alaska Anchorage.

Like Duffy, Mangan completed her second run in the lead with a combined time of 1:53.28, but was soon surpassed. Dlouhy was among those to push ahead of Mangan, but eventually fell out of the top 10 when St. Germain completed her dominating performance to win the event in 1:47.00, her second individual title of the championships. Currie ended up behind Dlouhy, placing 14th overall in 1:52.41, two slots ahead of her teammate Mangan in 16th.

The Dartmouth women totaled 52 points, fifth among the teams, while the men scored 36, well behind their dominating performance in the giant slalom two days prior that garnered 105.

The Big Green finished the championships with eight All-America performances and two individual titles — Nef in the men's giant slalom and sophomore Katharine Ogden in the women's 15K classic yesterday.