Skiing Finishes Fourth at EISA Championships

Saturday, February 26

Jackson, N.H.

Dartmouth College

UNH Day Two

Hannah Utter on her way to winning the giant slalom at the 2022 EISA Championships

Hannah Utter took gold in the giant slalom on Saturday.

Photo by: Stephen R Cloutier

2/26/2022 8:29:00 PM | Skiing

Final Results

Hannah Utter won the women's giant slalom, but the flu limited the Big Green's ability to put points on the board

By: Rick Bender

JACKSON/FRANCONIA, N.H. — With numerous members of the Dartmouth men's alpine and Nordic teams suffering from the flu, the Big Green could not quite overcome the illness and fell to fourth in the final standings of the EISA Championships in the New Hampshire Carnival on Saturday. Fifth-year senior Hannah Utter highlighted the day for Dartmouth by winning the women's giant slalom while freshman Oliver Morgan earned the other podium by claiming second in the men's GS.

Utter found herself in second after the first run at Mittersill this morning, trailing only her teammate, senior Ellie Curtis (1:06.12), but only ahead of two Vermont skiers by the slimmest of margins (four-hundredths of a second) with her time of 1:06.26. On the second run in the afternoon, Curtis was unable to finish the course, but Utter recorded the fifth-best time, which was better than either Catamount, securing the gold with her combined time of 2:15.45. Junior Gwen Wattenmaker just missed the podium in fourth place in 2:16.42, and sophomore Olivia Holm wrapped up the GS in sixth (2:16.69). The three amassed 128 points to win the women's alpine event for the second straight day, though Vermont was only barely behind with 126 points as the two teams posted six of the top seven times.

The men had little margin for error with only three able to strap on the skis today. One did not finish the first run, leaving Morgan (1:04.15, good for fourth) and junior Hunter Brayton (1:04.90, ninth) as the lone Big Green skiers remaining. Unfortunately, Brayton took a spill (as did 24 other entrants), but Morgan zipped through the course with the best time on his second attempt, moving up into second in 2:10.03. Only Vermont's Joachim Lindstoel was ahead of him with a combined time of 2:09.69, while Middlebury took third and fourth. The Catamounts finished atop the team standings for the race as well with 120 points while the Big Green had Morgan's 47 that left them in sixth.

Over at Jackson XC, the cross country teams took to the trails for the individual classical race, starting with the men's 10K. For this race, Dartmouth had just two to go through the starting gate, none of whom were among the usual top three from previous carnivals. Freshman Asa Chalmers and junior Alex Nemeth valiantly trudged on and came through with some of their better races of the season, finishing 27th (28:24.7) and 28th (28:28.1), respectively, to contribute 35 points. Vermont had four of the top five skiers, including Ben Ogden on the top step of the podium in 25:27.4, more than a minute ahead of second-place Peter Wolter of Middlebury.

The women, meanwhile, had three finish among the top seven in the 5K. Senior Callie Young finished the loop in 15:27.3, only 2.2 seconds away from a medal, and junior Mara McCollor was right behind her in fifth in 15:32.5. Youth nipped at their heels with freshman Tatum Witter registering a time of 15:45.0, good for seventh, and the three totaled 115 points. That garnered them second place behind the Catamounts' 124 thanks to taking the top two steps of the podium.

Vermont won the carnival with 981 points, well ahead of host New Hampshire in second with 728. That race for second was heated, however, with Middlebury (724) in third and Dartmouth fourth (716).

The Big Green season will come to an end at the NCAA Championships in two weeks. The University of Utah serves as host this year with the first day of competition being the giant slalom at Park City Mountain Resort on March 9.