Tournament information | |
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Sport | College skiing |
Location | Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah |
Dates | March 21–23, 1963 |
Administrator(s) | NCAA |
Host(s) | Utah |
Venue(s) | Solitude Ski Resort |
Teams | 6 |
Number of events | 4 (7 titles) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Denver (7th title) |
1st runners-up | Colorado |
2nd runners-up | Dartmouth |
The 1963 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Solitude Ski Resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah at the tenth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine, cross country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States. [1]
Denver, coached by Willy Schaeffler, captured their seventh, and third consecutive, national championship, again edging out rival Colorado in the team standings. [2]
Jim Page of Dartmouth repeated as Skimeister (all four events). The downhill competition on Friday was a three-way tie, won by Dave Gorsuch of Western State and Colorado's Bill Marolt and Buddy Werner, [3] who reclaimed the alpine combined title he won two years earlier. [4] Future Olympic bronze medalist Jimmie Heuga of Colorado won Thursday's slalom, passing teammates Marolt and Werner in the second run. [5] [6]
This year's championships were held March 21–23 in Utah at Solitude in Big Cottonwood Canyon, southeast of Salt Lake City. [7] The tenth edition, these were the second in Utah and the Wasatch Range; Snow Basin (on Mount Ogden) hosted six years earlier in 1957.
Rank | Team | Points |
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Denver | 384.6 | |
Colorado | 381.6 | |
Dartmouth | 348.9 | |
4 | Western State | 336.4 |
5 | Notre Dame | 190.6 |
6 | Chico State | 155.0 |
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.
Event | Champion | ||
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Skier | Team | Time/Score | |
Alpine | Buddy Werner (2) | Colorado | 3:42.6 |
Cross Country | Eddie Demers | Western State | 66:51 |
Downhill | Dave Gorsuch Bill Marolt Buddy Werner | Western State Colorado Colorado | 1:50.0 |
Jumping | Ole Tom Nord | Washington | 237.35 |
Nordic | Aarne Valkama | Denver | 7:48.42 |
Skimeister | Jim Page (2) | Dartmouth | 336.0 |
Slalom | Jimmie Heuga | Colorado | 1:42.0 |
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