(above) DU's Antje Maempel is the toast of Denver winning her second NCAA championship of the weekend in the Women's 15K Freestyle Cross Country event on Saturday morning
(above) DU's Molly Ryan in the giant slalomFrom: Burlington Free Press
RUMFORD, Maine -- Denver's overwhelming depth and quality wore down its rivals, lifting the Pioneers to the team title at the 56th NCAA Ski Championships.
Trailing Vermont by two points in the team standings entering today's final Nordic races, Denver used a 1-4 finish in the women's 15K freestyle and solid finish in the men's 20K to seize the national title.
Vermont, tenuously atop the team standings entering the final day, wound up in third place behind runner-up Colorado.
Denver, armed with a full, 12-skier roster, amassed 659 points to claim its second consecutive national title and record 20th overall.
Denver quickly erased the Catamounts' tenuous two-point advantage in this morning's women's race thanks in large part to Antje Maempel, who completed a championship sweep of the women's Nordic events. Maempel nipped Colorado's Alexa Turzian by only a half-second. Two days ago, Maempel won the 5K classical race.
Denver needed only to avoid a meltdown in the men's 20K to seal its victory, and its mens freestle cross country skiers finished sixth, 19th and 24th in the 39-man field.
2009 NCAA SKIING CHAMPIONSHIPS
FINAL TEAM SCORES
1. UNIVERSITY OF DENVER DU 659.0
2. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CU 602.5
3. UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO UNM 602.0
4. UNIV OF ALASKA-ANCHORAGE UAA 584.0
5. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT UVM 573.0
6. UNiVERSITY OF UTAH UU 568.0
7. DARTMOUTH COLLEGE DAR 555.0
8. MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MID 426.0
9. UNIV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE UNH 394.0
10. UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA NEV 284.0
11. COLBY COLLEGE CBC 209.0
12. NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIV NMU 195.0
13. BATES COLLEGE BAT 175.0
14. WILLIAMS COLLEGE WIL 147.5
15. UNIV OF ALASKA-FAIRBANKS UAF 122.0
15. ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY SLU 122.0
17. MICHIGAN TECH UNIVERSITY MTU 121.0
18. MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY MSU 85.0
19. UNIV OF WISCONSIN-GREEN BAY UWGB 35.0
20. ST MICHAELS COLLEGE SMC 31.0
21. GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE GAC 17.0
22. COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA CSS 13.0
9 comments:
Way to go!!!!
Awesome! Let's hope the recognition due for such a feat.
Congrats to all the skiers!
A convincing win for DU's 20h National Skiing Championship!
D-Rah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations skiers!!!!!
We Are DENVER
Very nice... It's amazing how long and how good this program has been.
Didn't win a meet all season, but peaked when it counted. Tremendous. A big boost for all DU's athletes...
Congrats to the DU ski team. We must have some smart coaches. Like Swami said--not winning a meet all year, then putting it all together with a dominant win at the end. Great accomplishment!!
Props to te snow sliders !!!!!
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