The 1972
NCAA Skiing Championships were contested in
Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park is a home rule municipality in Grand County, Colorado, United States. The permanent population was 999 at the 2010 census, although with 2,572 housing units within the town limits the seasonal population can be much higher.
It is ho ...
at the nineteenth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate
alpine
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Australia
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,
cross country skiing, and
ski jumping in the
United States.
Host
Colorado, coached by alumnus
Bill Marolt
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, captured their third national championship (and first since
1960
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Events
January
* Ja ...
), finishing 5.2 points ahead of three-time defending champion
Denver in the team standings.
Colorado's Mike Porcarelli reclaimed the slalom and alpine titles he won
two years earlier; the repeat champions were
Otto Tschudi
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of Denver in downhill and Bruce Cunningham of
New Hampshire in
Nordic combined. Denver's
Odd Hammernes
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won his second jumping title,
three years
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after the first.
[
In the downhill race, Utah sophomore David Novelle was killed after he lost a ski, went off the course, and collided with a tree. As a result, the Utah team withdrew from the competition.]
Venue
This year's championships were held March 16–18 in Colorado at Winter Park, west of Denver.
The nineteenth edition, these were the sixth NCAA Championships in Colorado and the third at Winter Park (1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
, 1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
); the others were at Crested Butte (1966
Events January
* January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.
* January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...
) and Steamboat Springs (1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Januar ...
, 1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
).
Team scoring
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Individual events
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.
*Thursday: Downhill, Cross Country
*Friday: Slalom
*Saturday: Jumping
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See also
* List of NCAA skiing programs
References
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