1967 NCAA Skiing Championships

The 1967 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at Sugarloaf ski area in Carrabassett Valley, Maine at the 14th annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine, cross country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States.[1][2]

1967 NCAA Skiing Championships

Tournament information
Sport	College skiing
Location	Carrabassett Valley, Maine
Dates	March 2–4, 1967
Administrator(s)	NCAA
Venue(s)	Sugarloaf
Teams	12
Number of events	4 (7 titles)
Final positions
Champions	Denver (11th title)
1st runners-up	Wyoming
2nd runners-up	Dartmouth

Denver, coached by Willy Schaeffler, captured their eleventh, and seventh consecutive, national championship, edging Wyoming by less than a point in the team standings.[3]

No individual champions from the previous year repeated, but two reclaimed titles won two years earlier, Rick Chaffee (slalom) and Matz Jennsen (nordic).

Venue

This year's championships were held March 2–4 in Maine at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley.[4]

The fourteenth edition, these were the first championships in Maine and the fifth in the East; the previous eastern sites were in New Hampshire and Vermont.

Team scoring

Sugarloaf

Location in the United States

Rank	Team	Points
	Denver	376.7
	Wyoming	375.9
	Dartmouth	374.0
4	Utah	366.5
5	Western State	362.2
6	Middlebury	356.1
7	Washington	354.5
8	Williams	342.6
9	Harvard	336.4
10	Colby	320.0
11	St. Lawrence	292.0
12	Maine	291.2

Source:[1][3]

Individual events

Sugarloaf

Location in Maine

Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.

• Thursday: Slalom
• Friday: Downhill, Cross Country
• Saturday: Jumping

Event	Champion
	Skier	Team	Time/Score
Alpine	Terje Øverland	Denver	4:25.83
Cross Country	Ned Gillette	Dartmouth	64:07
Downhill	Dennis McCoy	Denver	2:11.20
Jumping	Bjorn Loken	Utah	213.5
Nordic	Matz Jenssen (2)	Utah	7:10.5
Skimeister	Matz Jenssen	Utah	365.2
Slalom	Rick Chaffee (2)	Denver	1:21.96

Source:[1][2][3][4]

See also

• List of NCAA skiing programs

References

1. "NCAA Skiing Championships Results" (PDF). NCAA. NCAA.org. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
2. "Pioneers in ski lead; Redskins hold fourth". Deseret News. (Salt Lake City, Utah). UPI. March 3, 1967. p. C3.
3. "Denver wins ski crown for 7th year". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 6, 1967. p. 11.
4. "Denver loses lead in collegiate skiing". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. March 4, 1967. p. 11.