Dartmouth Ends First Day of Tight Vermont Carnival in Second

Friday, January 24

Stowe/Craftsbury, Vt.

9:00 AM

Dartmouth College

Vermont Day One

Claire Thomas skiing in the giant slalom at the Harvard Carnival, Jan. 18, 2020

Junior Claire Thomas garnered her third career podium.

Photo by: Gil Talbot

Dartmouth Ends First Day of Tight Vermont Carnival in Second

1/24/2020 8:07:00 PM | Skiing

Results First Day

The Big Green put four skiers on the podium

By: Rick Bender

CRAFTSBURY, Vt./STOWE, Vt. — The first day of the Vermont Carnival ended up with Dartmouth among three teams in a tight race for the lead, but the host Catamounts concluded the day with a four-point lead over the Big Green, 447-443, while Middlebury was right on their heels with 432.

The Big Green had four juniors step on the podium, including Katharine Ogden who won the women's classic sprint at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center for her second win of the season and 13th of her career. On the slopes of the Mount Mansfield Ski Club at Big Spruce, Drew Duffy took second in the men's giant slalom by the slimmest of margins, while Tricia Mangan and Claire Thomas placed second and third, respectively, in the women's GS.

Both Mangan and Thomas established themselves on the first run of the day with the latter posting the second-best time and the former right behind her in third. Not much changed in the afternoon, though the two swapped places as Mangan had the fastest run to post a combined time of 2:16.4, three-tenths of a second behind Vermont's Marina Vilanova. Meanwhile, Thomas wrapped up third place by three-tenths of a second in 2:16.7. Also scoring for Dartmouth was freshman Gwen Wattenmaker in 11th place, edging out senior teammate Stephanie Currie with a time of 2:20.0. The Big Green finished second to Vermont in the event by a 128-121 margin.

Duffy pulled off the best second run in the men's GS to boost him from fourth to second, mere hundredths of a second behind Middlebury's Erik Arvidsson for the gold with a combined time of 2:12.6. Sophomore Andrew Miller also earned a spot in the top 10 in 2:14.3, good for seventh, while senior David Domonoske tied for 17th in 2:15.9, giving the Dartmouth trio 108 points to place third behind Middlebury (122) and New Hampshire (114).

The women's Nordic team placed its three scorers in the top six of the classic sprint. Ogden, who had posted the best collegiate time in the qualifying races in the morning, reached the finals and earned her second victory of the carnival season. Her teammates, sophomore Callie Young and freshman Mara McCollor, came in fifth and sixth, respectively. Middlebury, however, had a trio take 2-3-4 to give the Panthers the team victory with 132 points while the Big Green collected 126.

In the men's sprint races, junior Adam Glueck just missed out on a spot on the podium, placing fourth overall, while Ogden's brother, Ben Ogden, took home the gold for Vermont. Freshman Cameron Wolfe ended the day with his first career top-10 finish, claiming ninth, while Dartmouth's other scoring skier, junior Kamran Husain, finished up in 30th. The Big Green team total of 88 points left them in third for the event, trailing Vermont (129) and Middlebury (94).

The carnival will conclude on Saturday with the slalom and the freestyle races. The alpine teams take to the slopes at 9 a.m. with the women up first for the initial run, while the Nordic races will begin with interval starts for the women's 5K at 9 a.m. followed by the men's 10K at 11 a.m.

Notes: Super Tour skiers competed in the Nordic races today with a couple of former Big Green skiers, two-time Olympian Ida Sargent '11 who won the women's final along with two-time All-American Erika Flowers '12 who placed fifth overall. Ogden was third when taking all skiers into account, not just the collegiate skiers … on the men's side, only two collegiate skiers made it to the semifinals and half of the 30 qualifiers were from the college teams.