Championship Celebration
Championship Celebration
Utes Capture Fourth Consecutive NCAA Skiing Championship Madison Hoffman and Novie McCabe each win two individual titles to power Utah to its 16th national championship
finished fifth. The Ute women Nordic skiers contributed 103 points in the 20K classic, the most by any team in any race at the 2023 NCAA Championships, to secure the title. On Thursday, Luke Jager paced the men in the 10K freestyle and crossed the finish line sixth. In the men’s 20K classic on Saturday, Samuel Hendry led a strong team effort with a fourth-place finish. The men’s Nordic team totaled 65 points in the final race to secure the title. “They come here and they’re under a lot of pressure because we have high expectations and they want to win it, and it makes it definitely more stressful than with a smaller team where you’re able to ski more individually,” Landstedt said. “We have to always make sure we get the most points and ski for the team. That’s what makes it more fun,
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16 National championships won by Utah skiing, including 15 in the NCAA Championships.
finish. Wilhelm Normannseth was the men’s slalom runner-up on Friday. With the downhill events concluded, Utah came into Saturday holding a slim, 1.5-point lead over Colorado, heading into the men’s and women’s 20K classic events. Following a win in the women’s 5K freestyle on day two, Novie McCabe completed the sweep of the women’s Nordic races on Saturday, winning the 20K classic in 1:00:04.3. Sophia Laukli placed third and Sydney Palmer-Leger
30 National team titles won by Utah Athletics all-time.
4 Since the NCAA combined
the way they support each other and they’re cheering other on. We have great camaraderie on this team, and I’m proud of the way they competed.” Madison Hoffman was the national champion in both the women’s Alpine races.
genders in skiing beginning with the 1983 ski championships, the Utes are the first program to win four straight NCAA team titles.
Novie McCabe, Sophia Laukli and Sydney Palmer-Leger finished in the top five of the women’s 20K classic with McCabe winning her second title of the week.
84 Individual national titles in the history of Utah skiing.
The Utah ski team claimed its fourth consecutive team championship and fifth win in the last six NCAA Championships on March 8-11 in Lake Placid, New York. Utah won the title with 526.0 points, followed by Colorado (491.5) and Denver (416.5) in the top three. Utah captured 13 All-American citations over the course of the four-day event. “It’s an incredible feeling to pull this one off,” said Director of Skiing Frederik Landstedt. “It was probably the hardest one in my five years at Utah. Colorado came out and really performed at
a higher level than they have all winter, and it ended up coming down to the wire. I’m very proud of our whole team.” Madison Hoffman was a double national champion in Alpine, winning the giant slalom to open the competition on Wednesday and claiming the win in slalom on Friday. She is the first Ute since Anke Friedrich in 1990 to win both women’s GS and slalom at the NCAA Championships. In men’s giant slalom, Utah’s Gustav Vøllo took home second-team All-America honors after a seventh-place
Wilhelm Normannseth was the runner-up in the men’s slalom.
Samuel Hendry took fourth in the men’s 20K classic.
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CRIMSON CLUB MAGAZINE APRIL 2023
CRIMSON CLUB MAGAZINE APRIL 2023
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