Big Green Finish Third at 2025 National Championship

Saturday, March 8

Hanover, N.H. / Oak Hill

10:00 AM

Dartmouth College

NCAA Day 4

Big Green Finish Third at 2025 National Championship

3/8/2025 4:38:00 PM | Skiing

By: Rebecca Osowski

HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth ski team wrapped the 2025 National Championship Saturday with the 20K Mass start. Three members of the Big Green earned All-American status to help Dartmouth secure a third-place overall finish with 508 total points.

The Big Green jumped one spot from 2024's fourth place finish in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Hundreds of Dartmouth community members attended the competition each day at Oak Hill or the Skiway.

"We have been thinking about this for probably close to a decade," Director of Skiing and Women's Nordic Head Coach Cami Thompson said. "We've been thinking about this and to actually see it come together this week has just been phenomenal."

The men kicked off the racing and were once again led by John Steel Hagenbuch. His 44:43.0 was good for second place, earning him First-Team All-America, his second All-America recognition of the championship.

Hagenbuch was right behind first place finisher Joe Davies from Utah through the first three laps. He posted the second fastest time through the first lap and the fourth fastest time through the second lap to sit just over four seconds out of first place. At the halfway mark, Hagenbuch was only 0.8 seconds out of first place.

Despite a slow fifth lap, Hagenbuch powered back in the sixth and final lap, finishing in 7:30.3, the third fastest time, to secure second place.

Luke Allan also finished his second race of the National Championship in the top ten, finishing sixth with a time of 45:51.0. Allan sat in fourth place at both the 6.7K mark and the halfway point with a time of 22:36.5.

Allan posted the fourth fastest time in the final lap, a 7:31.1, to secure sixth place and his second All-America recognition of the Championship. The senior wraps his Big Green career a two time All-American with both recognitions coming in this year's championship.

Cooper Camp rounded out the Big Green men, finishing 19^th overall with a 47:38. Camp saved his best lap for last, finishing with the 13^th fastest time of the field, a 7:39.6.

Ava Thurston was the first Big Green finisher to cross in the women's race. She finished seventh overall, earning her second All-America recognition of the Championship, this time on the second team.

Thurston was consistent out of the gate, sitting in tenth place at the 6.7K mark. By the 13.3K mark, she had jumped wo spots, thanks to the fourth fastest time in the fourth lap, an 8:43.9. She then went on to post the fifth and fourth fastest times in her final two laps to finish in 51:43 and secure seventh place.

Jasmine Drolet, the reigning 20K National Champion, finished 13^th overall with a 52:27. She posted the eighth fastest time of the field on the second lap, an 8:42.2, before remaining in the top 15 for the rest of the race.

Drolet finished the 20K 1:11 faster than the 14^th place finisher, Molly Moening from Vermont.

Nina Seemann, wearing bib 37 finished 22^nd overall. She crossed the finish line in 54:39, five seconds ahead of the next finisher.

While the Big Green finished this year's National Championship in third, the team was only five points behind second place Colorado.

"To do it at home was really special. It's bittersweet, five points out of second. That's close enough that we would really have liked to make that up but we did our best," Thompson said about the team's performances. "Everyone skied their hearts out this week, so we are proud of the team and where we ended up."

The Big Green saw success on the courses as early as Wednesday with the slalom. Oscar Zimmer and Zoe Zimmermann both finished in the top-five, earning First-Team All-American honors.

Thursday's races at Oak Hill were highlighted by John Steel Hagenbuch's 7.5K Classic National Championship win. Hagenbuch has now won the 7.5K individual championship in back-to-back years, winning the 7.5K Freestyle in Steamboat Springs last year. This is the first time the Big Green have had a back-to-back individual champion since 2018-19.

The women were led by Jasmine Drolet in the 7.5K Classic race with a third place finish. All six Big Green skiers earned All-American status in the race. Drolet and Ava Thurston earned First-Team All-America status while Nina Seemann finished eighth for Second-Team All-American honors. Hagenbuch and Luke Allan also earned First-Team All-American while Cooper Camp was named to the Second-Team on the men's side.

Benny Brown led the way for the Big Green on the giant slalom on Day 3. In only his first National Championship appearance, Brown finished second overall, earning First-Team All-American. Zimmermann and Dan Gillis earned Second-Team All-America with eighth and sixth place finishes.

While the Dartmouth season comes to a close and the Big Green skiers continue to compete in different races around the world, Thompson had one final message to the fans and community that showed their support at this year's championship.

"It makes me heart smile to see all these people out here; from generations to Dartmouth skiers, the community," Thompson said.

Thompson, who has been at Dartmouth since 1989 and last hosted a national championship in 2003, added; "We don't normally see crowds like this at Nordic ski races, so it was really special to me."