Resnick, Hagenbuch Win Again to Lead Dartmouth to Victory at Colby Carnival

Saturday, January 20

Carrabassett Valley/Waterville, Maine

9:00 AM

Dartmouth College

Colby Day Two

Daniel Gillis skiing the slalom at Colby, Jan. 20, 2024

Sophomore Daniel Gillis earned his first career podium by placing second in the slalom.

Photo by: flyingpointroad.com

Resnick, Hagenbuch Win Again to Lead Dartmouth to Victory at Colby Carnival

1/20/2024 7:44:00 PM | Skiing

Final Results (PDF)

Big Green post largest margin of victory in five years

By: Rick Bender

CARRABASSETT VALLEY/WATERVILLE, Maine — Another day, another win for Dartmouth juniors Allie Resnick and John Steel Hagenbuch. The duo won their respective races in the women's slalom and the men's 20K classic on Saturday as the Big Green closed out the Colby Carnival with a victory by 129.5 points over second-place Vermont, 912.5 to 783, their largest margin of victory in five years.

The temperature was cold but the Dartmouth skiers ran hot at Sugarloaf. Resnick posted the fastest times in both of the two runs to win the slalom by nearly 0.8 seconds in 1:37.98. After the first time down the mountain, three other Big Green skiers were among the top 10 — sophomore Zoe Zimmermann in fourth (47.57), sophomore Sammi Trudeau in sixth (47.82) and freshman Emma Reynolds in ninth (48.39). Although neither Zimmermann and Reynolds were able to complete the second run, Trudeau held strong in seventh with a combined time of 1:39.90 and senior Olivia Holm vaulted from 20th to 10th (1:40.98) thanks to recording the fourth-fastest time on the second run.

Vermont won the event, however, as three Catamounts finished 2-3-4 to tally 132 points with Dartmouth second (115) and Middlebury and New Hampshire tied for third (93).

In the men's slalom, three Big Green found themselves in the top 10 at the conclusion of the first tour down the slopes. Sophomore Daniel Gillis zipped through the course in 51.58 to sit in fifth with junior Oliver Morgan right on his heels in sixth with a time of 51.69 and senior Max Martin in 10th (49.63). The second run vaulted Gillis onto the podium for the first time in his career, just 0.02 seconds shy of New Hampshire's Isac Hedstroem to finish second with a combined time of 1:41.24. Like Trudeau, Morgan slipped just one spot into seventh at 1:41.85 while Martin climbed two spots right behind him in eighth at 1:41.91.

With Hedstroem claiming the gold, and another Wildcat reaching the podium in third, New Hampshire was able to edge out the Big Green for the victory in the men's slalom, 121-115. Host Colby was a distant third with 89 points.

Over at Quarry Road Trails, the men's 20K classic featured four skiers in the lead pack for essentially the entire race, though junior Luke Allan played the part of the fifth wheel through the first 5K. He ended up settling into a lonely fifth with a time of 55:49.9 with no one within 30 seconds of him over the final 10K. But for Hagenbuch, Harvard's Rémi Drolet, Vermont Finn Sweet and Middlebury's Logan Moore, the quartet was never separated by more than three seconds at every 2.5K checkpoint as they jockeyed back and forth for position. The final kick belonged to Hagenbuch, however, as he edged out Drolet by 1.1 seconds in 54:46.6 with Sweet in third (54:49.7) and Moore off the podium in fourth (54:55.7).

Fifth-year senior Cameron Wolfe rounded out the scoring skiers for the Green, taking 15th in 57:20.8 to help Dartmouth win the event with 115 points. Middlebury (105) grabbed second with three skiers among the top 12, and Vermont (92) finished third.

The women's 20K classic was even tighter for the lead pack eight strong within three seconds of each other at the halfway point. But after 15K, Vermont's Haley Brewster broke away and took the gold by 26.9 seconds. Big Green junior Jasmine Drolet was able to put some distance between herself and the rest of the pack to finish in second by nearly 11 seconds with a time of 1:03.43.5. Sophomore Ava Thurston (1:03.55.1) was just edged out by less than a second by St. Lawrence's Emma Strack for the final spot on the podium.

While the Catamounts placed two more in the top 10 (eighth and ninth), junior Tatum Witter chased down three skiers over the final 2.5K to cross the tape in 12th, giving the Big Green those extra points to hold off Vermont by two, 116-114.

Dartmouth will enter next weekend's alpine races of the Vermont Carnival at Stowe with a 105-point lead having won three of the four Nordic races last weekend. The giant slalom will begin on Friday, Jan. 26 at 9 a.m.

Notes: Dartmouth's most recent carnival victory was hosted by Harvard last year … the 129.5-point margin of victory was the largest for the Big Green since the New Hampshire Carnival in 2019 (137) … Resnick has won six of her nine career collegiate races while Hagenbuch has won six of 12 (all four this season).