Resnick Completes Weekend Alpine Sweep as Dartmouth Finishes Third at UNH

Saturday, January 28

Franconia/Jackson, N.H.

Dartmouth College

UNH Day Two

Oliver Morgan skis the slalom at the UNH Carnival, Jan. 28, 2023

Oliver Morgan reached the podium by finishing third in the slalom on Saturday.

Photo by: Stephen R Cloutier

Resnick Completes Weekend Alpine Sweep as Dartmouth Finishes Third at UNH

1/28/2023 3:00:00 PM | Skiing

Results

The sophomore has won three of her four collegiate races to date.

By: Rick Bender

JACKSON, N.H./BURKE, Vt. — One day after winning the women's giant slalom, sophomore Allie Resnick showed no mercy in taking gold in the women's slalom, helping Dartmouth win the event and wrapped up the New Hampshire Carnival in third place with 769 points. Middlebury barely edged out the Big Green with 782 points, while Vermont outdistanced everyone with 916 to win the carnival.

Resnick certainly found the course at Burke Mountain to her liking with the recent snowfalls in New England, and she jumped out to the lead by 0.7 seconds on the first run. On the afternoon run, she extended her lead with the third-best time, winning the event at 2:00.37, 1.3 seconds ahead of Vermont's Moa Clementson and more than two seconds ahead of another Catamount, Caroline Jones, in third.

Vermont nearly won the event as a team, but freshman Sammi Trudeau and senior Gwen Wattenmaker provided enough support in sixth (2::04.24) and eighth (2:04.64), respectively, to allow Dartmouth to eke out the victory by one point, 120-119. Middlebury was not far behind in third with 107 points, while Colby was the only other team with as many as 60 points with 93.

In the men's slalom, sophomore Oliver Morgan turned in the fifth- and sixth-fastest times on his respective runs, and those added up to a third-place finish for his first podium of the season and third of his career with a combined time of 1:53.17. The Big Green O-Patrol, consisting of Morgan, freshman Oscar Zimmer and junior Olof Hedelin, all finished in the top eight in the standings — just like the women — with Zimmer in fifth (1:53.74) and Hedelin tied for eighth (1:54.08).

But with Vermont taking the top two steps of the podium and Mathias Tefre winning the gold in 1:51.05, the Catamounts were able to fend off the Big Green for the team victory, 130-116, with St. Michael's in third at 107.

The Nordic skiers were handed an endurance race at Jackson XC as both the men and women hit the trails for a 20K classic mass start. Junior Garvee Tobin provided the best finish for either gender, placing sixth in the women's race in 1:04:17.3, 50 seconds behind the winner, Shea Brams of Middlebury. Tobin began the race reaching the first 5K checkpoint in 12th but was running fifth by the halfway mark as she settled into a groove, and the seventh-place finisher didn't cross the tape nearly 40 seconds later.

Freshman Emma Reeder earned a top-10 time with her 1:05:01.4, good for eighth, helped in part by the third-best time over the final leg, and sophomore Tatum Witter also supplied points for the Big Green in 20th at 1:08:01.7. Dartmouth produced 90 points as a team, placing third in the event overall behind Middlebury (136) and Vermont (110) but ahead of Harvard (81).

Senior Cameron Wolfe paced the Big Green men with a time of 56:16.1 to take 18th overall with rookie Cooper Camp right on his heels in 20th at 56:18.7. Rounding out the Dartmouth scorers was sophomore Asa Chalmers in 57:21.5 to finish 32nd and leave the Green with 60 points. Vermont (132) and Middlebury (117) took the top two spots in the team standings with a combined seven of the top eight skiers in the race, including Catamount Jacob Nystedt atop the podium in 54:01.2.

The alpine teams will be in action next weekend to complete the St. Michael's Carnival after having those events postponed last weekend. The giant slalom and slalom will take place at Smuggler's Notch in Jeffersonville, Vermont on Friday, Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb. 4.