1963 NCAA Skiing Championships

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1963 NCAA Skiing Championships
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Tournament information
Sport College skiing
Location Flag of Utah.svg Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
DatesMarch 21–23, 1963
Administrator(s) NCAA
Host(s) Utah
Venue(s) Solitude Ski Resort
Teams6
Number of
events
4 (7 titles)
Final positions
Champions Denver (7th title)
1st runners-up Colorado
2nd runners-up Dartmouth
  1962
1964  

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]

Contents

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]

Venue

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.

Team scoring

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Solitude
Location in the United States
RankTeamPoints
Gold medal icon.svg Denver 384.6
Silver medal icon.svg Colorado 381.6
Bronze medal icon.svg Dartmouth 348.9
4 Western State 336.4
5 Notre Dame 190.6
6 Chico State 155.0
Source: [1] [2]

Individual events

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Solitude
Location in Utah

Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.

EventChampion
SkierTeamTime/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 Flag of Norway.svg Ole Tom Nord Washington 237.35
Nordic Flag of Finland.svg Aarne Valkama Denver 7:48.42
Skimeister Jim Page (2) Dartmouth 336.0
Slalom Jimmie Heuga Colorado 1:42.0
Source: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "NCAA Skiing Championships Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved December 21, 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. 1 2 3 Kadleck, Dave (March 25, 1963). "It's No. 3 for Denver U. in NCAA ski competition". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. B2.
  3. 1 2 Kadleck, Dave (March 23, 1963). "C.U. keeping point pace, has eye on NCAA title". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. A4.
  4. 1 2 Kadleck, Dave (March 22, 1963). "Three-way tie sparks NCAA downhill race". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. B5.
  5. 1 2 Kadleck, Dave (March 21, 1963). "Colorado skiers race to early NCAA lead". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. C1.
  6. 1 2 "NCAA slalom official results". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). March 22, 1963. p. B5.
  7. Kadleck, Dave (March 20, 1963). "Collegiate skiers poised for Thursday's NCAA slalom". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. B3.

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