Pair of Podiums Help Dartmouth End First Day of UNH Carnival in Second

Friday, January 27

Franconia/Jackson, N.H.

Dartmouth College

UNH Day One

Allie Resnick won the gold in the GS at the UNH Carnival, Jan. 27, 2023

Sophomore Allie Resnick

Photo by: Stephen R Cloutier

Pair of Podiums Help Dartmouth End First Day of UNH Carnival in Second

1/27/2023 6:33:00 PM | Skiing

Results

Allie Resnick won the GS and Nina Seeman took second in the 5K classic

By: Rick Bender

JACKSON, N.H./Burke, Vt. — Allie Resnick led the Dartmouth ski team on the first day of the New Hampshire Carnival, winning the women's giant slalom for the second time in as many attempts this season as the Big Green wrapped up the first four events with 383 points. That total left the team in a heated race for second place behind Vermont with 425 with host UNH holding a 13-point edge ahead of Dartmouth, which in turn is seven points ahead of Middlebury for third.

Providing the other podium finish on the day for the Big Green was sophomore Nina Seeman in the women's 5K freestyle in second place.

The alpine events, originally scheduled for Mittersill in Franconia, New Hampshire, were relocated to Burke Mountain in Vermont, but the change of venue had no effect on Resnick, a native of Vail, Colorado. She continued to show off her form that has her on the U.S. Alpine B Team, zipping down the slopes with the second-best time on the first run before overcoming her tenth-of-a-second deficit to beat out St. Michael's Helene Kristoffersen by six-tenths of a second in 2:11.75.

The first two podium steps were a repeat from two weeks ago at Bates, but the third- and fourth-place finishers swapped places with Plymouth State's Tindra Bergstrand (2:12.51) nipping Dartmouth's Carly Elsinger for the final podium step (2:12.63). Junior Gwen Wattenmaker had the fastest second run and slipped into the top 10 after sitting in 23rd after her first run, ending the day with a time of 2:13.75, good for ninth. That capped the Big Green scoring with a total of 122 points to take the team title in the event, well ahead of Colby's 94 and Middlebury's 90.

The O-Patrol — sophomore Oliver Morgan, junior Olof Hedelin and freshman Oscar Zimmer — led the Dartmouth men's alpine team on the first run of the GS, sitting in fifth, seventh and tied for 11th, respectively. On his second run, Morgan could not quite crack the top three — all from Norway — led by Vermont's Joachim Lindstoel with a time of 2:07.33, nearly a second ahead of his teammate, Mathias Tefre. Nevertheless, Morgan did climb one rung in the standings to take fourth in 2:08.85.

Junior Max Martin surged ahead of his other teammates to finish 10th overall in 2:10.17, while Zimmer dropped one slot into 12th in 2:10.44. The Big Green ended up tied for second in the GS with St. Michael's with a total of 99 points as Vermont won the event with 122.

Over at Jackson XC, the Big Green cross country teams raced without several of their top skiers, some of whom are in Whistler, British Columbia, for the FIS World Junior and U23 Championships. But Dartmouth still had Seeman racing in the women's 5K freestyle interval start, and the sophomore came through with a stop on the podium by taking second in 12:45.9. That left her a mere 1.8 seconds behind Lucinda Anderson of host New Hampshire for the gold, while Middlebury's Shea Brams claimed the only podium step in third in 12:58.5.

Freshman Emma Reeder just missed the top 10 with her time of 13:09.0, leaving her in 11th place, while sophomore Tatum Witter edged out junior Garvee Tobin by three seconds for the final scoring slot for the Big Green in 28th place at 13:43.9. As a team, Dartmouth combined for 93 points, finishing just behind second-place Middlebury (99) and third-place Vermont (95) with the Wildcats of UNH taking the team title with 126.

The men opened the racing with their 5K freestyle with an interval start, and freshman Cooper Camp provided the fastest time for Dartmouth at 11:23.1, good for 12th place. His time was approximately 35 seconds off the pace set by Vermont's Jacob Nystedt (10:48.3), who took the gold, followed by Scott Schulz (10:57.5) of the host school and another Catamount in Finn Sweet (11:03.2).

Also scoring for the Green were sophomore Aiden Casey in 22nd place with a time of 11:38.0 and senior Cameron Wolfe in 24th at 11:40.2. The trio combined for 69 points, leaving Dartmouth in sixth place behind Vermont (131), New Hampshire (106), Middlebury (96), Colby (86) and Harvard (71).

The carnival will conclude on Saturday with the slalom and 20K classic mass start, beginning at 9:30 a.m.