1973 NCAA Skiing Championships

1973 NCAA Skiing Championships

Tournament information
Sport	College skiing
Location	Hancock, Vermont
Administrator	NCAA
Host(s)	Middlebury College
Venue(s)	Middlebury College Snow Bowl
Teams	14
Final positions
Champions	Colorado (4th title)
1st runners-up	Wyoming
2nd runners-up	Vermont

The 1973 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl in Hancock, Vermont at the 20th 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.

Defending champions Colorado, coached by Bill Marolt, captured their fourth, and second consecutive, national championship, finishing 4.04 points ahead of Wyoming in the team standings.

These were the first NCAA championships in which Denver did not finish in either first or second.

Venue

Main article: Middlebury College Snow Bowl

Middlebury

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1973 NCAA Skiing Championships site

This year's championships were contested at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl in Hancock, Vermont. Middlebury College served as hosts.

This was the second time that Middlebury hosted the NCAA championships (the Panthers previously hosted in 1961) and the third held in the state of Vermont (1955–Northfield).

Program changes

• This was the final year that skimeister was included in the event program. This award went to the skier with the best performance across all four other disciplines.

Team scoring

Rank	Team	Points
	Colorado	381.89
	Wyoming	377.83
	Vermont	376.85
4	Denver	372.55
5	Middlebury	362.38
6	Dartmouth	361.14
7	Fort Lewis	355.70
8	Northern Michigan	350.52
9	New Hampshire	345.78
10	Western State	341.05
11	Montana	335.23
12	Washington	187.20
13	Michigan Tech	178.37
14	Alaska Methodist	90.79

See also

• List of NCAA skiing programs