Big Green End First Day of Harvard Carnival in Third

Friday, January 17

Craftsbury, Vt./Waterville Valley, N.H.

9:00 AM

Dartmouth College

Harvard Day One

Molly Gellert skiing in the 5K Freestyle at the Harvard Carnival, Jan. 17, 2020

Sophomore Molly Gellert finished eighth in the women's 5K skate, earning 37 points.

Photo by: Gil Talbot

Big Green End First Day of Harvard Carnival in Third

1/17/2020 8:22:00 PM | Skiing

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Ogden and Duffy earn podiums

By: Rick Bender

CRAFTSBURY, Vt./WATERVILLE VALLEY, N.H. — On a raw, cold day to begin carnival season, the Dartmouth ski team finished the first day of the inaugural Harvard Carnival in third place with 405 points, trailing Middlebury (454) and Vermont (431). Juniors Katharine Ogden and Drew Duffy each earned a place on the podium in their respective events for the Big Green.

A lack of snow in Dublin, New Hampshire, forced the Nordic races to be moved to the Craftsbury Outdoor Center, where temperature was frigid but the wind was manageable. The men began the skate races with the 10K and junior Adam Glueck leading the Big Green. He finished the first loop in 12th place, then passed two skiers on the second and final loop to end up 10th with a time of 25:41.5. Freshman Cameron Wolfe showed promise in his first collegiate race by crossing the tape in 15th place in 26:14.7, while junior Walker Bean also scored for the Big Green with a time of 26:35.2, good for 23rd. Vermont took the event with three of the top four times, led by Karl Schulz in 24:15.5, to win going away with 138 points while the Green collected 83, good for fourth.

In the women's 5K, Dartmouth had 11 skiers on the course, five of whom were competing as individuals, and placed six among the top nine. But the other three all hailed from Middlebury, which won the event with 135 points to the Big Green's 123. Ogden, a three-time NCAA champion, found herself running neck-and-neck with Middlebury's Alexandra Lawson down the stretch only to have Lawson edge her out for the win by 1.3 seconds with a time of 13:44.1. Freshman Mara McCollor and sophomore Molly Gellert comprised the other scoring Dartmouth skiers in sixth (14:15.0) and eighth (14:28.2), with the latter narrowly nipping senior teammate Lauren Jortberg in ninth by 0.3 seconds. Others finishing in the top 10 as individuals were senior Abby Drach (fourth, 14:11.6) and sophomore Callie Young (seventh, 14:26.0).

Over at Waterville Valley, the women launched first in the slalom and Dartmouth enjoyed a strong first run. Junior Tricia Mangan had the second fastest run and senior Stephanie Currie was third with junior Claire Thomas seventh. But on the second run, both Mangan and Currie slipped a gate, leaving Thomas as the Big Green leader in sixth place with a time of 1:42.48. Freshman Gwen Wattenmaker enjoyed her second run, zipping through the course with the third-best time of 53.14 seconds to climb 12 spots in the standings into 13th with a combined time of 1:44.10. Her senior teammate, Stephanie Lebby, also rallied on her second run with the fifth-fastest time (53.16) to finish 14th in 1:44.16. The trio totaled 90 points for Dartmouth, leaving them third behind Middlebury (111) and New Hampshire (105), the latter led by the gold medalist, Emma Woodhouse, in 1:41.06.

Duffy sat atop the leaderboard after the first run of the men's slalom with senior James Ferri sixth and junior Kalle Wagner ninth. On the second tour, Duffy put together a solid run with the eighth-best time to end the day with a time of 1:34.09, leaving him on the podium in third place. Sophomore Andrew Miller climbed up the standings into seventh with a strong second run for a combined time of 1:35.08, and senior David Domonoske jumped out to 10th overall in 1:35.59 while Ferri dropped back to 14th (1:36.24) and Wagner did not finish his second run. Middlebury's Tim Gavett (1:33.70) and Vermont's Joachim Jagge Lindstoel (1:34.05) took the top two steps on the podium as Middlebury won the event with 128 points. The Catamounts just nipped the Big Green for second by a 111-109 margin.

The carnival will conclude on Saturday with the giant slalom and the classical races, the latter of which will be streamed live on ESPN+ starting at 10 a.m. with the men's 20K followed by the women's 15K at noon.