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Tournament information | |
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Sport | College skiing |
Location | ![]() |
Dates | March 22–25, 1962 |
Administrator | NCAA |
Venue(s) | Squaw Valley |
Teams | 7 |
Number of events | 4 (7 titles) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Denver (6th title) |
1st runners-up | Colorado |
2nd runners-up | Western State |
The 1962 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, California at the ninth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States. [1]
Denver, coached by Willy Schaeffler, captured their sixth national championship (and second consecutive), edging out rival Colorado in the team standings. [2] [3]
Scheduled as the opening event on Thursday, the downhill was postponed to Saturday due to heavy snowfall, and the jumping moved to Sunday. [4] [5]
Utah's Jim Gaddis reclaimed the alpine title he won two years earlier; he won the slalom, [6] and was runner-up in the downhill, just a tenth of a second behind. [2] [7]
This year's championships were held March 22–25 in California at Squaw Valley in Olympic Valley. Two years earlier, Squaw Valley had hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics. [8]
The ninth NCAA championships, these were the first in California and the second in the Lake Tahoe area of the Sierra Nevada (1954 in Reno, Nevada).
Rank | Team | Points |
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![]() | Denver | 390.08 |
![]() | Colorado | 374.30 |
![]() | Western State | 361.40 |
4 | Dartmouth | 356.32 |
5 | Nevada–Reno | 333.79 |
6 | California | 294.17 |
7 | Montana State | 280.51 |
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.
Event | Champion | ||
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Skier | Team | Time/Score | |
Alpine | Jim Gaddis (2) | Utah | 3:29.7 |
Cross Country | Jim Page | Dartmouth | 59:03 |
Downhill | Myke Baar | Denver | 1:44.8 |
Jumping | ![]() | Denver | 223.6 |
Nordic | ![]() | Montana State | 3:13.57 |
Skimeister | Jim Page | Dartmouth | 361.67 |
Slalom | Jim Gaddis | Utah | 1:26.7 |
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