1963 NCAA Skiing Championships
Denver, coached by Willy Schaeffler, captured their seventh, and third consecutive, national championship, again edging out rival Colorado in the team standings.
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, who reclaimed the alpine combined title he won two years earlier. Future Olympic bronze medalist Jimmie Heuga of Colorado won Thursday's slalom, passing teammates Marolt and Werner in the second run.
Venue
This year's championships were held March 21–23 in Utah at Solitude in Big Cottonwood Canyon, southeast of Salt Lake City. 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
Rank | Team | Points |
---|---|---|
Denver | 384.6 | |
Colorado | 381.6 | |
Dartmouth | 348.9 | |
4 | Western State | 336.4 |
5 | Notre Dame | 190.6 |
6 | Chico State | 155.0 |
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Individual events
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.
- Thursday: Slalom
- Friday: Downhill, Cross Country
- Saturday: Jumping
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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See also
References
- ^ "NCAA Skiing Championships Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
- ^ Kadleck, Dave (March 25, 1963). "It's No. 3 for Denver U. in NCAA ski competition". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. B2.
- ^ Kadleck, Dave (March 23, 1963). "C.U. keeping point pace, has eye on NCAA title". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. A4.
- ^ Kadleck, Dave (March 22, 1963). "Three-way tie sparks NCAA downhill race". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. B5.
- ^ Kadleck, Dave (March 21, 1963). "Colorado skiers race to early NCAA lead". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. C1.
- ^ "NCAA slalom official results". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). March 22, 1963. p. B5.
- ^ Kadleck, Dave (March 20, 1963). "Collegiate skiers poised for Thursday's NCAA slalom". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). p. B3.