Ogden Earns All-America Honors Again; Remainder of Championships Canceled

Thursday, March 12

Bozeman, Mont. / Crosscut Mountain Sports Center

12:00 PM

Dartmouth College

NCAA Nordic Freestyle

Katharine Ogden

Photo by: NCAA Photos via Getty Images

Ogden Earns All-America Honors Again; Remainder of Championships Canceled

3/12/2020 3:11:00 PM | Skiing

Results

Ogden places fourth in 5K freestyle

By: Rick Bender

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Shortly before the NCAA canceled all remaining winter and spring championships, Dartmouth junior Katharine Ogden earned her fifth All-America First Team honor in as many opportunities during her career by finishing fourth in the women's 5K freestyle at the NCAA Skiing Championships hosted by Montana State on Thursday morning. The Big Green finish the truncated championships in eighth place with 120 points while Utah took over the team lead with 293 points, 32 ahead of Denver.

Ogden completed the 5K loop at the Crosscut Mountain Sports Center in 13:40.2, 19.1 seconds behind Denver's Eveliina Piippo who claimed the gold. Ogden's time allowed her to take fourth in this race (earning 31 points for Dartmouth) for the second straight year after winning the national title as a freshman when the freestyle was run as a 15K. Freshman Mara McCollor picked up 11 points by finishing in 20th with a time of 14:48.4, and sophomore Molly Gellert placed 29th in 15:16.2, good for two more. The Big Green compiled 44 points as a team to finish fifth in the event while Middlebury won with 79 points, five ahead of the Utes.

The men's freestyle race was a 10K with two Big Green launching in the middle of the interval start in the 40-skier field. Freshman Cameron Wolfe had a nice debut at the NCAAs, placing 26th overall with a time of 25:51.8, tallying five points for Dartmouth. Junior Adam Glueck ran about a minute behind Wolfe in 26:53.8 to finish 35th.

Vermont's Ben Ogden — younger brother of Katharine — won the race in 23:50.2, edging out Utah's Sam Hendry by 3.1 seconds and Denver's Bernhard Flaschberger by 6.0 seconds. The three Catamount skiers all finished among the top 12 to win the event as a team with 88 points, vaulting ahead of the Green into fourth place in the overall standings but still 26 behind Middlebury in third (216-190).