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NCAA Preview 2004: Utah gets an A in chemistry{mosimage}This year marks the 50th anniversary of NCAA skiing competition. Will the Utes take another step toward matching the greatness they enjoyed under Pat Miller in the 1980’s? They’ll be gunning to build on last year’s title, but it won’t be easy to come out on top again.

The millennium opened with an unbeatable NCAA ski-racing team, as the University of Denver’s head coach Kurt Smitz captured three championships in a row. Will this be Kevin Sweeney’s year? The soft-spoken Utah coach became chief in 2000 (after former head coach Pat Miller was fired for allegedly falsifying a recruit’s academic records) and brought the Utes so close to the team trophy in his first season that they could feel it, only to fall from second place to fourth after each team’s lowest two scores were dropped.

When the Utes finally did get their hands on the trophy in March 2003, the cheers sounded as much like relief as sheer joy. The team has always attracted top talent like Estonian Olympian Katrin Smigun, who won everything last season. But they were operating under a dark cloud. Sweeney was often heard saying, “We didn’t ski to our potential.”

Unlike the rest of the ski-racing world, where talent is everything, college teams need more than just skiers with low points to win a team championship. “It’s not about better skiers or better people,” said Sweeney after his team won, “it’s just that they all really got this synergy going. It’s really something hard to explain, but I think everyone, especially experienced coaches, know …”

Synergy, chemistry, teamwork-they’re all buzz words in collegiate skiing. To do well, skiers have to develop a light touch on the throttle. Occasionally, your team needs you to finish two runs of slalom safely, rather than take the risks necessary to win the race. Sacrificing individual glory may give the team victory-not something that comes naturally to me-minded skiers.

“It takes time to develop a winning program, especially when surrounded by such powerhouses as the Colorado schools and UVM [University of Vermont],” explains Sweeney. “You can’t just waltz in there and win. You need the chemistry.” In 2003, the Utes’ ions finally bonded .

Utah is favored to win again this year. But even with the right chemical balance, they won’t waltz out to Lake Tahoe this March assured of another win. Almost every other top-10 team has added at least one hot ringer capable of stealing an individual title. But sometimes, these skiers come to the collegiate scene thinking they’ll win easily, then find themselves struggling to stand up. As former U.S. Ski Team member Hilary McCloy said last winter after she finally nailed a podium spot for UVM, “I had to get beyond the fact that I was from the U.S. Ski Team.”

Some skiers vying for a gold this year aren’t even on one of the top 10 teams, like Abbi and Jenny Lathrop from Colby College. Both were All-Americans last year; Jenny took silver in slalom behind Utah’s Johansson. Alaska-Fairbanks’ cross-country skier Sigrid Aas would like to add a NCAA gold to the silver and bronze medals she collected in 2003.

The University of Nevada-Reno hosts the NCAAs this season, with the alpine events at Sugar Bowl in California, which hosted the slalom national championships two years ago, and the nordic races at Donner Summit (elevation 7,200 feet)-the highest nordic venue since the championships were held in Winter Park, Colorado, in 1977. Teams are listed below in the order that coaches predict they will finish in those championships.

Noticeably absent is Northern Michigan University. Last year, the Wildcats took one individual title-Chris Cook in men’s classic-but finished 11th overall. Cook is now on the national development team, but another world-class skier, Lindsey Weier, could more than make up for his points. Weier was a double gold medalist at the 2003 Junior Olympics and skied to 15th in freestyle at the 2003 World Juniors.

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: 10 (1981, 1983-84, 1986-88, 1993, 1996-97, 2003)
RETURNING NCAA CHAMPIONS: Ben Thornhill
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS: Barbro Hatlevik, Rowena Hyldahl, April Mancuso, Pierre Olsson
TOP NORDIC RECRUITS: Henning Dybendal, Sandra Gredig, Jenny Hansson, Linda Pettersson, Casey Simons
TOP ALPINE RECRUITS: Lauren Lattimer, Will McDonald, Andi Weiser
COACHES: Kevin Sweeney, Aaron Atkins, Jaka Korencan
NEW COACH: Katrin Smigun (student assistant), 2003 NCAA double gold medalist

Plenty of sunshine. World-class training facilities. The “greatest snow on earth.” Now Utah has one more calling card: national collegiate ski champions. Not content to rest on their laurels, the most successful team over the last 25 years has the talent and momentum to keep on winning.

Unbeaten at NCAAs, the women’s alpine team only loses GS gold medalist Lina Johansson, who’s no longer eligible. NCAA bronze medalist and former Australian Olympian Rowena Hyldahl (nee Bright) is back, as is 2002 silver medalist April Mancuso (Lake Tahoe, California). Mancuso red-shirted last year after rupturing a vertebra. Joining them is Lauren Lattimer, a freshman from Canada’s junior national team. She was ranked second overall at the Canadian Junior Championships. Former developmentteam skier Elisha Stephens should also challenge for a scoring spot on the team.

The men won’t exactly be riding on the women’s coattails. Ben Thornhill, from Whistler, will be in the hunt to defend his GS title. He started his freshman season as pack-filler. Then, as the weeks went by, he moved from the second page of results to the first. By NCAAs, he could move no higher. He nailed both runs of GS to take the gold.

Self-described party-man Pierre Olsson is another potential winner. He’s hoping to earn top season rankings again and more medal wealth to go with the silver he won in 2002. Before coming to Utah, he spent a year on Sweden’s A Team, and garnered a silver in slalom at the 2001 World University Games.

Jockeying for the last NCAA spot will be Will McDonald, Gaspar Perricone and Andi Weiser. From Aspen, Colorado, McDonald was national downhill, slalom and GS champion at age 15. He then skied on the U.S. development team. Before transferring to Utah, the engineering major attended Sierra Nevada College, where he took the slalom bronze at the U.S. Collegiate Ski Association nationals. He also finished third in slalom (as a guest) at Utah’s Invitational last winter.

Perricone is from Steamboat, Colorado, and has extensive racing experience, including many NorAms (top result: eighth in slalom at Sunday River last January). Sweeney describes McDonald and Perricone as the two “best raw talents in the U.S.” Weiser is from Slovenia and will no doubt show what he learned on his country’s C team.

In nordic, Utah will have a hard time replacing Estonian Olympian Katrin Smigun, who won every collegiate race last year. No longer eligible to ski at the NCAA level because of her age (26, and the cutoff is 25), she is now a student assistant coach for the Utes. She will work with All-American Barbro Hatlevik (Norway) and newcomers Sandra Gredig from Switzerland-several top 10 finishes in FIS races, Jenny Hansson from Sweden-17th at Swedish senior nationals (sprint), and Linda Pettersson from Sweden-13th at Swedish senior nationals in 2003. “The depth of our women’s nordic team is formidable,” says Sweeney. “I anticipate a lot of healthy inter-squad competition.”

Perhaps the only weak link in the Ute Force is men’s nordic (again). The top recruit is Henning Dybendal from Norway. One of his country’s best juniors, Dybendal took fourth in the 10km classical at the 2003 Scandinavian Cup, and he raced in one World Cup in Oslo last winter. He joins double Junior Olympic gold medalist Casey Simons, who followed his brother Zach down I-80 to his home state’s university. Jess Kiesel, a sophomore from Sun Valley, Idaho, hopes to improve on his already high 2003 rankings: third in classical and sixth overall
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“The momentum is here, and everyone is fired up,” says Sweeney. “I anticipate our results to be very explosive!” Ka-pow.

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: 15 (1959-60, 1972-79, 1982, 1991, 1995, 1998-99)
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS: Erling Christiansen, Mia Cullman, Brad Hogan, Henrik Hoye, Muriele Huberli, Jana Rehemaa
TOP NORDIC RECRUIT: Tim Damrow
TOP ALPINE RECRUITS: Julie Czesnowski, Kristin Taylor
COACHES: Richard Rokos, Bruce Cranmer, Sylvan Kaufman
NEW COACH: Mari Storeng (Colorado ’02), NCAA gold and silver medalist

Last March, Coach Rokos was frustrated. His nordic team was performing to expectations at NCAAs, but only Jana Rehemaa mustered a top-five performance in the women’s freestyle. His men’s nordic team-ranked second overall in the west-limped to seventh. Then his top-ranked alpine skiers struggled on the “World-Cup-firm” GS course at the Dartmouth Skiway. Brad Hogan in ninth was the top Buffalo skier that day. And former NCAA medalist Mia Cullman was fuming about the conditions after finishing 24th-“I don’t like the ice, I like powder.” Over the next two days, luck didn’t turn in the Buffs favor, although Cullman did collect another medal-a bronze in slalom, her third medal in that event in as many years.

“We were unprepared for that type of environment,” says Rokos. “That type of snow was something some of the kids never skied before. And our skiers from the East didn’t have the chance to ski it throughout the season. I felt bad for the kids. We had a strong team in place, all excellent skiers. It was kind of tough to swallow.”

Snow conditions will likely be in the Buffaloes’ favor at Sugar Bowl this year, and Cullman will have one last opportunity to add gold to her collection (two bronzes and a silver). Erika Hogan, the 2003 slalom bronze medalist at the World University Games, is also mining for gold, as is brother Brad. Erika struggled at NCAAs but rebounded at the end of the season, finishing several FIS races in the top eight.

New alpine recruits are Julie Czesnowski (Killington, Vermont) and Kristin Taylor (Montreal, Quebec). The Vermonter has had moments of brilliance in slalom and GS, sometimes finishing in the top five amongst USST members. At a GS in Vail in April, Czesnowski finished third right behind Sarah Schleper. She’s also familiar with collegiate skiing, having finished seventh in GS at the 2003 UVM Carnival. As for Taylor, she was eighth in GS and eleventh in slalom at 2003 Canadian senior nationals.

Rokos is still unsure about his men’s alpine team. The one recruit, Mitch Duggan, decided not to ski this year. Rokos may promote one of the men on CU’s club team but is undecided. That leaves Hogan, Bosnian skier Tahir Bisic, Fritz Ernemann (Aspen, Colorado), and Michael Read (Canada) to score for the Buffs. Bisic was ranked 13th in slalom last year, and Read is the only other NCAA qualifier besides Hogan.

The strength of the men’s nordic team depends on the stamina of an unnamed Norwegian who is due on campus for second semester: Rokos predicts he will be number one or two on the team. The only new nordic recruit currently on the Buff’s roster is Tim Damrow (Roseville, Minn.)-sixth in the JI classic and 15th in freestyle at Junior Olympics s. These men join Norwegians Henrik Hoye and Erling Christiansen, both top-eight finishers at NCAAs.

The best news: the Lady Buff nordic team will return in its entirety, and add another Norwegian in January (all Rokos will say is that she’s very good). Claire Critchley graduated in May and had planned on attending graduate school in Canada. With one year of eligibility left, she changed her mind over the summer and is now enrolled in grad school at CU. “That made the team,” says Rokos, sounding relieved. She joins veterans Muriele Huberli and Rehemaa, and so far, Rokos says everyone is healthy.

“There was an outbreak of flu on campus,” says the coach. “But they all worked through it and are OK now. Most of us were vaccinated three weeks ago, but the vaccine didn’t work. Maybe it will help us in March.” That, soft snow, and high altitude. Well, high for everyone else. The Buffs train at the Eldora Nordic Center, elevation 9,300 feet.

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: 17 (1954-57, 1961-67, 1969-71, 2000-02)
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS: Karin Camenisch, Barbara Knor, David Lamb, Sophie Ormond, Dominik Schweiger
TOP NORDIC RECRUITS: Courtney Dauwalter, Erlend Hoff
TOP ALPINE RECRUITS: Lars Ola Kjos, Pia Rivelsrud
COACHES: Kurt Smitz, Knut Nystad
NEW COACHES: Phillip Putzer (Denver ’01) four top-ten finishes in his year on the team, former Italian national team member; Jörn Frohs (Denver ’01) two-time NCAA silver medalist and two-time bronze medalist

The Pioneers fell hard last March at NCAAs: the three-time defending champions only put two skiers in the top five and finished a lowly 11th overall in men’s freestyle. Quite a change after dominating the men’s nordic races the previous three years.
After the disappointing championship, the coaching staff tried to analyze what went wrong. “We just didn’t catch the winning momentum,” says Phillip Putzer, new head alpine coach. “Overall, we never fired on all four cylinders. But we had individual highlights.”

Those included Karin Carmenisch’s bronze medal in the women’s NCAA classical race, Sophie Ormond’s double win at western regionals, and a 1-2 performance in GS by David Lamb and Dominik Schweiger at regionals. But the team never won an invitational and limped to fifth overall at the national championship.

Hoping to make the Buffs faster this year, Jörn Frohs returned to his alma mater as assistant nordic coach. The good news: the Pioneer women’s nordic team returns intact. Carmenisch (Switzerland), Niina Karvonen (Finland) and Tara Hamilton (Anchorage, Alaska) are all about as strong as last year, reports Frohs. Joining them is Courtney Dauwalter (Edina, Minnesota), the J I freestyle champion at 2003 Junior Olympics. In that race, she skied away from the field, finishing almost a full minute ahead of her nearest competitor. “She leaves a good impression so far,” says Frohs. “We have high hopes for her. She’s improving every day.”

Frohs also hopes Karvonen has recovered from overtraining last season. “Niina was very tired last year,” he says. “We’re trying to train smarter. We’re focused on quality not quantity, so we’re putting in fewer hours than last year.”

On the men’s side, Norway’s Erlend Hoff joins the Pioneers at the end of December. At a 15km freestyle race in Finland on November 9, Hoff placed 35th in a field of 75, just over two minutes off the winning pace. The Norwegian joins fellow countrymen Martin Bartnes and Amund Hansen, who both raced for Denver last year. Bartnes represented the Pioneers at NCAAs, taking 18th in classic, 31st in freestyle.

In alpine, Ormond (France), Lamb (Steamboat Springs, Colorado), and Schweiger (Austria) all return, as do All-American Barbara Knor (Austria) and Cain Mahan (Glenwood Springs, Colorado.), who also has NCAA experience. “We already had a good team last year,” says Putzer, even though they might not have had the best luck.

Two new Norwegian alpine skiers should help improve the Pioneers’ luck: Lars Ola Kjos and Pia Rivelsrud. According to results on the FIS web site, when Kjos finishes, he’s fast. He has skied on the Europa Cup circuit and in March 2003 took eighth in super G at the Norwegian nationals, about 1.5 seconds off Kjetil-Andre Aamodt’s winning time. Rivelsrud has extensive Europa Cup experience and has had top-five placings in all disciplines at the Norwegian nationals since 2000.

The Pioneers may not conquer the entire podium as in years past, but quite a few should step onto it throughout the season. Whether the whole team is podium material in March remains to be seen.

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: 5 (1980, 1989-90, 1992, 1994)
RETURNING NCAA CHAMPIONS: Jamie Kingsbury and Matt Knittle (2000)
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS:
Lowell Bailey, Ethan Foster, Hunter Kaltsas, Hilary McCloy
TOP NORDIC RECRUITS: Emilia DeMarchis, Carina Hamel, Liz Parke
TOP ALPINE RECRUIT: Johnny Davidson, Eric Lundy
COACHES: Bill Reichelt, Erica Macconnell, Allan Serrano
NEW COACH: Elizabeth Hollenbach (St. Lawrence ’00), NCAA qualifier,1999-2000

With only one female nordic skier qualifying for NCAAs last March, the Catamounts’ NCAA prospects looked bleak. The previous year, with a full team of 12, they had their worst showing since coach Chip LaCasse took the team’s reins (back when Nixon was president). It looked as if the Cats’ would ski the championships with their tails between their legs.

Instead, LaCasse was all smiles, and not because he was on the threshold of retirement. Lowell Bailey, Ethan Foster and his younger brother Ryan scored more points than any other men’s nordic team and took home two silver medals. In alpine, freshman Jamie Kingsbury won the women’s GS, Scott Kennison took third in slalom and Jimmy Cochran claimed bronze in GS, silver in SL. The Cats’ tails were high as they claimed second place. Women’s nordic aside, they would have beaten Utah by a point.

So, the mission last year was to attract nordic women to the shores of Lake Champlain. Although no foreign guns shot across the pond, Carina Hamel (Southampton, Massachusetts) did sign on. A Burke Mountain Academy grad, Hamel skied for the U.S. at World Juniors last winter and was the bronze medalist in freestyle at Junior Olympics. Emilia DeMarchis (Burlington, Vermont ) and Liz Parke (Richmond, Vermont ) will also ski for their home state university this winter. Parke raced for Carleton College until that school disbanded its team in 2002. Now a grad student at UVM, she brings maturity and a “great work ethic” to the team, says new head coach Bill Reichelt. A biathlete, DeMarchis, was part of the silver-medal-winning team in the 3×7.5km relay at the 2002 Biathlon Junior World Championships.

The Cats have had good luck with biathletes before. Lowell Bailey (Lake Placid, New York) came to UVM from the U.S. biathlon team. He and the Foster brothers should be the same unbeatable threesome they were last year. After finishing a boot length behind New Mexico’s Chris Cooke at NCAAs, the elder Foster claimed half-seriously that he had let Cooke, a senior, win. He’s coming back with one goal in mind.

In alpine, Reichelt predicts that Vermont “could be a little stronger than last year.” But two of the medalists have moved on: Kennison graduated, and Cochran is on leave with the U.S. Ski Team. All-American Hunter Kaltsas (Stratton, Vermont ) will be a scoring leader along with former NCAA champion Matt Knittle (Stowe, Vermont ). New recruits are Johnny Davidson from Ontario and Eric Lundy from Moretown, Vermont Davidson was 10th in slalom at Canadian Nationals, and took third in a Rocky Mountain Trophy Series slalom at Breckenridge, Colorado, in November. Lundy has proved he can beat top collegiate skiers (like Kennison). His resume, though, is a study in inconsistency.

All six women on the team-Kingsbury (Waitsfield, Vermont), Amy Cochran (Keene, New Hampshire ), Madaileine Krebs (Ludlow, Vermont), Jan Lemasurier (Nellysford, Virginia ), Erin Mascolino (Jeffersonville, Vermont) and Hilary McCloy (Bethel, Maine)-have had top-10 performances during the regular season. Even more important, they have such great chemistry on the mountain that they act like sisters in a happy family.

If Vermont can finish in second with 10 skiers, think of what the team can do with 12. Reichelt says going out west for NCAAs is always an unknown-with his nordic skiers racing in thin air-but he has high hopes for the season. In terms of firepower, they only really lost Cochran and Kennison. But can the new skiers make up for the 135 points these guys tallied at nationals? Look for a Cat fight in March.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
BEST NCAA FINISH: 2 (1992)
BEST FINISH IN LAST 10 YEARS: 3 (1994)
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS: Jennifer Delich, Lena Jensen, Martina Stursova
TOP NORDIC RECRUITS: Dirk Grimm, Jakub Hamr, Trine Lundamo, Geir Rogn
TOP ALPINE RECRUITS: Alex Mach
COACHES: George Brooks, Fredrik Landstedt
NEW COACH: Brandon Dyksterhouse (Vermont ’00), 1997 NCAA GS champion

Los Lobos came very close last year. After day one of the NCAA championships- the men’s and women’s freestyle races-they sat in first place, 24 points ahead of eventual winner Utah. The next day, they slipped to second, but held onto that spot until the final tallies. When the two lowest scores were dropped, the Lobos fell to fourth. Although they’ve won a dozen discipline titles in the past quarter century (e.g., the women’s freestyle team championship in 2003), they have never put together enough solid performances to step as a team onto the top of the podium.

That may change this year. “I believe our team is stronger that last season,” says head coach George Brooks. “We have more depth. The athletes who are returning are the better ones from last year, and the new people look good on paper.”

One of those new people is Canadian Alex Mach, who has FIS points in the low to mid 30s in slalom and GS. Due to arrive second semester are two more men to bolster the alpine squad-the Lobos weakest link last year. “Men’s alpine is substantially improved,” says the coach. “Potentially, with the two new guys, my guesstimate is we could be the top one or two teams in the country. It’s the strongest of all our groups.”

The women’s alpine team has five returning skiers, including 2002 All-American Jennifer Delich from Fernie, British Columbia. “All five girls qualified for NCAAs last year,” Brooks points out. Kathrin Spendier (Austria) won the 2003 Western State Invitational slalom, and Jennifer Shively (Steamboat Springs, Colorado) finished third in GS at the same meet.

Perhaps the most substantial change in Lobos territory is the addition of Brandon Dyksterhouse to the coaching staff. After graduating from UVM, the former NCAA champ spent three years training and traveling with the USST as an invitee. Now pursuing a masters degree in sports administration , Dyksterhouse brings that winning feeling to the high desert. “The confidence he brings to the team is tremendous,” observes Brooks.

The nordic squads both lost NCAA champions (Jimmy Vika and Kristina Strandberg), but coach Fredrik Landstedt still thinks the team is stronger than last year. Former World Cup Czech skier Martina Stursova is back and will be joined by Lena Jensen and Pirkko Pulkkanen, who have returned to New Mexico after a year’s hiatus. Jensen spent last year in Norway where she skied in one World Cup and finished 13th at the Norwegian nationals in the 30km classic. Trine Lundamo from Norway is the only newcomer. Brooks also expects to add one more woman second semester.

The men’s nordic team is almost completely fresh. “Last year, Jimmy was out there by himself,” says Brooks. “This year, we have greater strength and depth.” Geir Rogn (Norway) is a two-time junior classical champion, scored a first and two seconds at the Norwegian Military Championships, and most recently was 15th in the 2003 Norwegian Birkebeiner. Dirk Grimm (Germany) is the reigning German, European, and World roller-skiing champion. And Jakub Hamr (Czech Republic), the two-time Czech junior champion, was a member his country’s junior national team. He tore his ACL in June but is on the mend.

“This is the strongest team we’ve had in many, many years,” predicts coach Brooks. Dyksterhouse and Landstedt now have to school these strong skiers in the ways of college skiing – and then the Lobos will try to circle their prey and pounce.

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA
BEST NCAA FINISH: 5 (1960, 1962)
BEST FINISH IN LAST 10 YEARS: 6 (2002)
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS: Abby McAllister
TOP NORDIC RECRUITS: Paige Brady, Sally Johnson, Sari Tuovinen, Donovan Walsh
TOP ALPINE RECRUIT: Matt Savage
COACH: Tom Arnstein
NEW COACH: Tav Streit (Nevada ‘TK), NCAA qualifier 1996

When teams ho
st NCAAs, they almost always gain an advantage. The alpine skiers are accustomed to the snow-hard or soft-and the nordic skiers have adapted to the altitude and terrain. This year, the alpine events are scheduled for Sugar Bowl in California and the nordic races will be held at the Auburn Ski Club on 7,200-foot Donner Summit. One of the highest nordic venues in the West, the terrain will punish thin-blooded Eastern skiers more accustomed to the oxygen at sea level.

So the Wolf Pack nordic team will have no excuse. Not that they’ll need one. The team hasn’t looked this strong since the days when Czech Olympian Katerina Hanusova led the Pack. This year, they’re led by All-American Abby McAllister (Bend, Oregon ), and by Emma Garrard (Anchorage, Alaska), who just missed All-American status, finishing 11th in freestyle. Joining them is Sari Tuovinen. The Finnish skier earned a World Cup start in the women’s 10km freestyle race in Lahti last year. Also new are Sally Johnson and Paige Brady, both from Anchorage. Johnson was third in J I classic at JOs, and Brady, a World Junior veteran, won the silver medal in the J I sprint.

The men’s nordic team will benefit from the talents of JO medalist Donavan Walsh, another Anchorage-ite. He joins Nevada’s other top nordie, Jesse Carlstrom, 12th in freestyle at the 2003 NCAAs. The nordic skiers are now coached by Tav Streit. Reno is his old stomping (gliding) ground. After skiing for Nevada in the mid-1990s, he worked as assistant coach.

Quincy Young leads the alpine team. Ranked sixth overall in the West in slalom last season and eighth in GS, the Truckee skier also raced at the World University Games in Italy, taking 23rd in slalom. Then at FIS races in California in April, she showed her potential with a series of top-five finishes amongst USST women. Matt Savage is the only new alpine skier on the men’s roster. From Reno, he has raced as far north as Canada in NorAms and as far south as Chile in the South American Cup. He joins Jason Foster, ranked 14th in slalom in the West in 2003.

With this line-up and the home hill advantage, the Wolf Pack should easily maintain its seventh-place ranking at NCAAs, and could do quite a bit better.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: 2 (1958, 1976-tied with Colorado)
BEST FINISH IN LAST 10 YEARS: 5 (1994)
RETURNING NCAA CHAMPION: Roger Brown (2002)
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS: Ali Crocker, Matt Hoisington
TOP NORDIC RECRUITS: Michael Sinnott, Kristina Trygstad-Saari
TOP ALPINE RECRUITS: Courtney Calise, Gordon Gray, Christin Lathrop
COACHES: Ruff Patterson, Cami Thompson, Peter Dodge
NEW COACH: Christine Booker (Canada), coached extensively in North America

Throughout the 1990s, Dartmouth only topped UVM in regional competition once. Then in January 2001, the Big Green proved that the Catamounts weren’t completely invincible. Thanks to a stellar women’s nordic team and the men’s slalom skills, Dartmouth started winning carnivals-not all of them, but a few.

This year, they might win more frequently. . Across the board, the team is teeming with former USST members. Even those who never skied for the red, white and blue have FIS points in the low 30s. Take, for instance, 2002 NCAA slalom champion Roger Brown (Norwich, Vermont), the number-one slalom skier in the East, as coach Peter Dodge calls him. For two consecutive years — 2001 and 2002 — Brown finished in the top eight at nationals in slalom, winning in 2002. After a summer in New Zealand, he’s back to avenge his disappointing 2003 collegiate season (he failed to make Dartmouth’s NCAA squad and couldn’t defend the slalom title on home turf).

Also returning are identical twins Erik and Karl Johnson, who grew up skiing at Brown’s grandparents’ place (Cochran’s in Richmond, Vt.). Erik won the slalom at the 2003 UVM Carnival. Gordon Gray from New York City is the new face on the team. A graduate of the Green Mountain Valley School, he represented the U.S. at World Juniors in 2000 and 2001. His speed skills should help bolster men’s GS.

As promising as the men’s team is, it may be the women’s alpine team that turns heads. Former USST members Christin Lathrop (North Conway, New Hampshire) and Courtney Calise (Littleton, New Hampshire) should help the Big Green punch into the top five overall. Bedeviled by injuries in her years on the national team, Calise scored several top threes in NorAms and top 10’s at nationals. On her 18th birthday in 1998, she actually won the Dartmouth Carnival slalom (as a guest). Lathrop, the older sister of Colby twins Abbi and Jenny, spent last winter racing NorAms and Europa Cups. “We could do great things this year,” says Christine Booker, Dartmouth’s new women’s alpine coach.

Not to be outdone, women’s nordic has added two hot skiers to the pool. The hottest of them all is double-silver JO medalist Kristina Trygstad-Saari (Bozeman, Montana). Just 19, she has already built an impressive resume, including a Continental Cup win last November and sixth in freestyle at 2002 World Juniors. But coach Cami Thompson says the phenom is not yet in top form.

Also new to the team is Sara Studebaker (Boise, Idaho). At JOs, she finished sixth in both freestyle and classic, less than a minute behind Trygstad-Saari in both races. These two join All-American Ali Crocker (Poughkeepsie, New York ) and Chrissy May (Anchorage, Alaska), who both won races last winter. “I’m feeling very positive about the group right now,” said Thompson, not giving anything away. “Hopefully they can stay healthy and balance school.”

Michael Sinnott (Sun Valley, Idaho) should keep the men’s nordic squad competitive. At JOs, he was the J I silver medalist in classic, and he tied for fifth in freestyle. Andy Hunter (Readfield, Maine) is the only returning NCAA veteran; his best finish was 15th in classic last March.

Yes, 2004 could be a very good season-a just reward for the recent angst over NCAA violations. All skiers are now eligible to train (and soon race, once the seven athletes who received money from a Outdoor Programs fund donate the amount received to charity). Coach Booker summed it up best when she said, “We could do things Dartmouth hasn’t done in a long time.”

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
BEST NCAA FINISH: 2 (1961)
BEST FINISH IN LAST 10 YEARS: 5 (1994)
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS: David Coriell, John Rusten, Eric Rygg, Laura Scripture
TOP NORDIC RECRUITS: Beau Baldock, Jenny Hamilton, Dan Skold
TOP ALPINE RECRUITS: Lindsay Brush, Tara Martin, Sally Swallow
COACHES: Terry Aldrich, Patty Ross-Tran
NEW COACH: Forest Carey (Middlebury ’00), NCAA silver and two-time bronze medalist

Every year, Middlebury has moments of brilliance. In late February, Claire Anderson won the freestyle race at Easterns. Then Eric Rygg took fifth in slalom at NCAAs. But the Panthers have always struggled with consistency, no surprise for a Division III college that can’t lure top talent with athletic scholarships.

So it is surprising that Middlebury is one of only two teams returning three All-Americans to one squad. David Coriell (Killington, Vermont ), John Rusten (Federal Way, Washington ) and Rygg (Belvedere, California ) have all experienced the pressure of NCAAs and have survived, each scoring at least one top-10 finish. “Dave, John, and Eric are all looking good,” reports new head alpine director Forest Carey, himself a three-time All-American for Middlebury. Unfortunately, Rusten twisted his knee playing soccer this fall and is in the “feeling it out” stage, says Carey. Rusten had minor surgery on the knee over the summer but reportedly hopped back into soccer too soon. “Hopefully, he won’t have to have surgery again,” says the coach, who has way too much experience of his own with knee ailments.

While the men’s team was already strong, Carey says Middlebury has solidified the women’s alpine team. Lindsay Brush (Charlotte, Vermont ) leads the group of newcomers. A graduate of GMVS, she was 14th in GS at the 2003 U.S. Alpine Championships (sandwiched between the Lathrop
twins) and tied with USST member Megan Hughes for 15th in slalom. At the 2003 UVM Carnival, she finished third in GS.

Tara Martin (Lyndonville, Vermont), Sally Swallow (Farmington, Maine), and Amy Witherspoon (Kingfield, Maine) should add depth too. From Burke, Martin was sixth in GS at Easterns. Swallow and Witherspoon, both Carrabassett Valley Academy graduates, are top Eastern skiers too-Swallow in speed events, Witherspoon in slalom. They join Laura Scripture (Harrisburg, Virginia ), a pillar of consistency in both alpine disciplines, and Jess Smith (Rockport, Maine), a former development team skier who has struggled on the college circuit.

Nordic director Terry Aldrich reports that his entire women’s squad is returning, including Anderson (Whitefish, Montana ). She was the first Middlebury woman to win an Eastern championship race in 20 years. The top female freshman is Jenny Hamilton (Aspen, Colorado). Seventh in the J I freestyle and eighth in classic at JOs, she will, no doubt, vie for a role as a scoring skier.

The men’s side is loaded with new talent. Beau Baldock (Jackson, Wyoming ) was junior national champion two years ago, then spent last winter training and racing in Norway. Dan Skold (Hopkins, Minnesota) also spent last year in Norway, leading Aldrich to joke, “We’ve got more people speaking Norwegian on our team than some teams with Norwegians!”

The Panthers are sure to shine brightly this year. The team almost always peaks for Easterns, which double as the Middlebury Carnival. Perhaps this year, they’ll carry that momentum west to sunny (yet high) Tahoe.

UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA-ANCHORAGE
BEST NCAA FINISH: 5 (1993, 1997-98)
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS: Mandy Kaempf, Eric Strabel, Zach Violett
TOP NORDIC RECRUIT: Susanne Kumpulainen
TOP ALPINE RECRUIT: Marius Elvrum
COACHES: Greg Cress, Trond Flagstad
NEW COACHES: Jeff Rust (Western State College), coached the Sun Valley Ski Team from 1999-2002; Meegan Lynch (Syracuse ’00), J III head coach for Song Mountain Race Team from 1997-2000.

The Seawolves began last season with a goal: qualify a full team for NCAAs and try to slip into the top five overall. If not in 2003, then perhaps this year. With increased funding from the athletic department, the “Skiwolves” were looking to break out of the tenth-place rut they wallowed in for three straight years.

Although they didn’t meet either goal, they did get out of that rut. Just barely. The team finished ninth at the championships, but only after New Hampshire’s Greg Blaisdell was disqualified in slalom. Still, the Seawolves brought home two individual bronze medals (men’s nordic) and one silver (women’s freestyle), won the men’s classical event as a team, and took third in men’s freestyle.

Results in alpine, however, were disappointing. Their best place was 20th in men’s GS, and only one woman qualified for the championships-Julie-Pierre LeClerc from Granby, Quebec; Jessica Hamilton hopes to join LeClerc this year. The Ketchum, Idaho, skier came to Anchorage in January 2003, and her best finish was 25th in GS at the Colorado Invitational.

The men’s alpine team should be significantly stronger, thanks to the talents of Marius Elvrum from Norway. He medaled three years in a row in the Norwegian National Junior Championships, taking the bronze in downhill (2002), the gold in downhill and bronze in GS (2001) and gold in super G (2000). He has also skied the Europa Cup circuit.

The returning skiers look good on paper. Christian Ringvold took silver twice in downhill at Norwegian junior nationals. But his best finish at the NCAAs was 20th in GS. Andreas and Reinhold Neuhauser from Austria are two other skiers that the Seawolves hope will live up to their potential. Reinhold suffered a season-ending injury after only two races last year. Andreas, student Europa Cup overall champion in 2000/01, didn’t qualify for NCAAs.

Now that Katrin Smigun isn’t racing, freestyle silver medalist Mandy Kaempf has a good chance of adding “NCAA champion” to her resume. The former German national freestyle champion scored five top-five finishes in 2003. Nicole DeYong from Anchorage, a transfer from Alaska Pacific University who qualified for NCAAs her first year as a Seawolf, is looking even stronger this year. At the opening round of the NorAm Super Tour in Anchorage in mid-November, she placed sixth in the 7.2km freestyle. Sarah Hansen (Wasilla, Alaska) is back for another year and has also stepped up her skiing. The bronze medalist in freestyle at 2003 JOs, she started off the 2003-04 season like DeYong, with a sixth in the SuperTour (in her case the 5km classic). Two freshmen give the team needed depth: Davya Baker from Fairbanks and Susanne Kumpulainen from Finland.

The Seawolves will be hurt most by the loss of double bronze medalist Tobias Schwoerer. But 2002 freestyle silver medalist Eric Strabel (Palmer, Alaska) is back, as is All-American Zach Violett (Brownsville, California ). At the Super Tour, Violett was sixth in the 10km classic, the only top-10 performance by a male UAA skier. Whether these skiers can make up for the 70 points that Schwoerer accrued at NCAAs remains to be seen. But a bolstered alpine team should help them move closer to their goals.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
BEST NCAA FINISH: 5 (1955, 1961, 1971)
BEST FINISH IN LAST 10 YEARS: 8 (1994, 2000)
RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS: Sydney Mikkelson
TOP ALPINE RECRUITS: Mindy Regii
COACHES: Cory Schwartz, Kurt Simard, Coreen Woodbury

Last spring, the Wildcats lost some key seniors to graduation, namely four-time All-American Greg Blaisdell, the 2002 NCAA slalom bronze medalist, and All-East nordic skier Matt Schadow. These two were responsible for more than a quarter of the points the team earned at nationals in the past two years.

“Alpine-wise, the men definitely have got to account for Greg Blaisdell’s points,” admits head alpine coach Kurt Simard. “There isn’t any one person who can do that. But a combination can. There’s enough talent to do that.”

The talent to which he’s referring will be supplied by three NCAA veterans: Joe Dunn (Stockbridge, Vermont ) who skied to 14th in slalom last March; Ben Drummond (Freedom, New Hampshire ), who qualified in 2002; and Bryn Carey (Park City, Utah), a 2001 qualifier.

“The women are as strong as last year,” reports Simard. “And we always hope for even more development.” All-American Sydney Mikkelson (LaCrescent, Minnesota) had six top-10 finishes in both disciplines during the regular carnival season. NCAA veteran Jodi Curry (Hampstead, New Hampshire) and Melissa Adams (Alton, New Hampshire) complete the group that Simard expects to score for the team. “Melissa had great results,” he says. “She just needs to be more consistent.” The squad’s top recruit is Mindy Regii (Campton, New Hampshire). From Holderness School, she tested herself in one carnival last winter, taking 20th as a guest in slalom.

“We’re pretty young,” says Simard. “There are no seniors on the team, except for Bryn, but we only lost one to graduation. Last year, we were top three in alpine (in the East), and this is definitely a group capable of doing that again.”

The big unknown is Courtney Strait (Clifton Park, New York). Once upon a time, the former USST member was beating skiers like Alex Shaffer and Caroline Lalive. Hampered by knee problems, she raced briefly for the Wildcats her freshman year (2002), winning the UVM slalom. “If it works out,” says Simard vaguely, when asked if she’ll be racing this year. “We’re hopeful.”

Cory Schwartz says the women’s nordic squad will probably contribute the most points for the team. Returning NCAA veterans Kate Underwood (Johnstown, New York) and Eeva Pregitzer (Houghton, Michigan)-both seniors-once again lead the team. Underwood hopes to build on last year’s six top-five places. Her best was third in classic at the Dartmouth Carnival.

“The men’s nordic [team] lost five out of our top seven skiers,” says Schwartz. “Leading the men will be Chris Mallo
ry and Mike Stremp. Frosh Rody Lageson hopes to surprise.” Mallory (Colchester, Vermont) has qualified for NCAAs the past two years, taking 19th in classic as a freshman. Stemp (Saranac Lake, New York) is a graduate student, and Lageson (St. Paul, Minnesota) finished 56th in the J I freestyle at JOs last March.

“We have another great group, and we are looking forward to another consistent year,” says Schwartz optimistically.

So is everyone else.

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European Report: Wiberg pays back taxes; biathlon legend announces retirement{mosimage}Retired alpine skier Pernilla Wiberg said Tuesday she has handed over a large chunk of her prize and sponsor money to the Swedish government because she doesn't want to live as a "tax evader."

The three-time Olympic medalist said she paid a 7.9 million kronor ($1 million) tax debt, which included a 40 percent penalty, on February 10 after losing an extended court battle with tax authorities.

A tax authority official confirmed the payment had been made.

"I don't want to become a tax evader -- I can't live like that," Wiberg said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press.

The debt stemmed from 1993 to 1996, when Wiberg channeled prize money and sponsor income to a firm on the British tax haven Isle of Man, which then paid her a salary, according to court documents.

Swedish tax authorities argued that money paid to the firm on Wiberg's behalf should be considered her income and be taxed as such. Wiberg said her financial advisers had advocated the arrangement as an alternative to moving abroad, something Swedish sports stars often do to avoid the country's taxes, which are among the world's highest.

"They said it was better to do it like that than to be registered as a business, as I had been until then. At the time, I wasn't ready to move abroad," said Wiberg, who has lived in Monaco since 1995.

In November, the Administrative Court of Appeals refused to hear the case, forcing Wiberg to pay as ruled by a lower court. Wiberg described the court ruling as "unfair" and said it wasn't based on evidence. She said she planned to appeal the penalty part of the payment in the European Court, and that she might demand compensation from her advisers.

Wiberg, the 1997 overall World Cup champion, retired from professional skiing in 2002 after 13 years on the World Cup circuit. Her achievements include a gold in the giant slalom at the 1992 Olympics, a gold in the combined in 1994 and a silver in the downhill in 1998.

Dorfmeister doubtful for Are

Austrian ski team officials said it's still unknown whether Michaela Dorfmeister can start this weekend's super G in Are, Sweden.

World super giant slalom champion sustained a concussion from a crash while training Monday also pulled ligaments in her right thumb and was briefly hospitalized.

The news agency DPA is reporting that the injuries are not as serious as previously expected following an exam in a hospital in Villach. Ski team officials said they will for a few days before making a decision about whether Dorfmeister, sitting fifth overall, will take the start in Sweden.

>> Schild delays comeback

Austrian gate specialist Marlies Schild, forced to skip the start at Region Arber, Germany, earlier this month with a bum knee, said she might not be able to return to racing until the World Cup Finals next month.

The 22-year-old had an operation to repair meniscus damage in her left knee after she felt pain while training for the Arber races. She's scored four slalom podiums this season and sits second overall in the slalom standings, but likely won't be back for two slaloms February 28 and 29 in Levi, Finland, as coaches had hoped.

"I've been working on rehabilitating the knee with gymnastics, swimming, knee stabilization and muscle strengthening to keep the knee strong," she told Austrian national radio. "I hope to be in Finland but we have to wait to see how I feel. I begin training on the snow next week and might not be able to compete again until Sestrieres."

>> Biathlete legend retires

Frank Luck, one of biathlon's most successful performers, announced his retirement Tuesday in Germany.

The 36-year-old German won 13 world championship medals in his career, including seven golds, as well as 12 World Cup victories. He was also part of the Olympic gold medal winning relay teams in Nagano, Japan, and Lillehammer, Norway, and a two-time silver medalist in the 20km individual event.

There will be a farewell race for Luck in his hometown of Oberhof, site of the recent world championships, on June 12. Among the participants will be Ole-Einar Björndalen, Viktor Maigourov and Frank-Peter Rötsch.

>> Racing today: Cross-country men's and women's 1km sprint, qualifying and finals, Stockholm, Sweden.


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