NCAA names 148 championship participants

INDIANAPOLIS – The NCAA Skiing Committee has announced the 74 men and 74 women selected to participate in the 2015 National Collegiate Men’s and Women’s Skiing Championships, to be held March 11-14 at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, N.Y. The championships will be hosted by St. Lawrence and the Olympic Regional Development Authority.

Participants are selected on a regional basis from two designated regions for alpine skiing (EISA and RMISA) and three designated regions for Nordic skiing (Central, EISA, and RMISA). Bids are awarded to regions using a formula determined by the skiing committee. A maximum of 12 student-athletes (three per gender per discipline) may participate from an institution.

Nordic events will be held at Mt. Van Hoevenberg. The women’s five-kilometer and men’s 10-kilometer freestyle cross-country races will be conducted March 11. The women’s 15-kilometer and men’s 20-kilometer classical races will be held March 13.

Alpine events will run at Whiteface Mountain. The men’s and women’s giant slaloms will be held March 12, with the men’s and women’s slaloms conducted March 14.

This year’s skiing championships will be webcast live on NCAA.com.

Release courtesy of the NCAA