Tournament information | |
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Sport | College skiing |
Location | Steamboat Springs, Colorado |
Dates | March 21–23, 1968 |
Administrator | NCAA |
Venue(s) | Mount Werner, Howelsen Hill (jumping) |
Teams | 10 |
Number of events | 4 (7 titles) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Wyoming (1st title) |
1st runners-up | Denver |
2nd runners-up | Dartmouth |
The 1968 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at Mount Werner ski area near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, at the fifteenth 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]
Wyoming, coached by John Cress, captured their first national championship, edging out seven-time defending champion Denver by less than eight points in the team standings. [1] [2] The previous year, Wyoming was runner-up by less than one point.
This year's championships were held March 21–23 in Colorado at Mount Werner ski area in Steamboat Springs. The jumping event was at Howelsen Hill.
These were the fourth championships in Colorado, and the first at Steamboat Springs. Winter Park hosted the state's first two (1956, 1959), followed by Crested Butte in 1966.
Mount Werner was sold in 1969 and rebranded as "Steamboat" in 1970. [3]
Rank | Team | Points |
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Wyoming | 383.9 | |
Denver | 376.2 | |
Dartmouth | 369.5 | |
4 | Fort Lewis | 369.1 |
5 | Colorado | 365.3 |
6 | Western State | 360.0 |
7 | Middlebury | 348.6 |
8 | Washington | 320.4 |
9 | Vermont | 306.5 |
10 | Montana State | 299.7 |
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.
Event | Champion | ||
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Skier | Team | Time/Score | |
Alpine | Dennis McCoy | Denver | 3:14.7 |
Cross Country | Clark Matis | Colorado | 53:19 |
Downhill | Barney Peet | Fort Lewis | 1:37.30 |
Jumping | Peter Robes | Wyoming | 221.2 |
Nordic | Jim Miller | Fort Lewis | 7:09.4 |
Skimeister | Eric Piene | Wyoming | 338.8 |
Slalom | Dennis McCoy | Denver | 1:36.32 |
Steamboat Springs is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Routt County, Colorado. The population was 13,224 at the 2020 census. Steamboat Springs is the principal city of the Steamboat Springs Micropolitan Statistical Area, and it is the largest city in northwestern Colorado.
Steamboat Resort is a major ski area in the western United States, located in northwestern Colorado at Steamboat Springs. Operated by the Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation, it is located on Mount Werner, a mountain in the Park Range in the Routt National Forest. Originally named Storm Mountain ski area, it opened on January 12, 1963.
Wallace Jerold "Buddy" Werner was an American alpine ski racer in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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