1972 NCAA Skiing Championships

SportCollege skiing

Location Winter Park, Colorado

DatesMarch 16–18, 1972

AdministratorNCAA

1972 NCAA Skiing Championships

Tournament information
Sport	College skiing
Location	Winter Park, Colorado
Dates	March 16–18, 1972
Administrator	NCAA
Host	Colorado
Venue	Winter Park Ski Area
Teams	16
Number of events	4 (7 titles)
Final positions
Champions	Colorado (3rd title)
1st runners-up	Denver
2nd runners-up	Wyoming
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The 1972 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested in Winter Park, Colorado at the nineteenth 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]

Host Colorado, coached by alumnus Bill Marolt, captured their third national championship (and first since 1960), finishing 5.2 points ahead of three-time defending champion Denver in the team standings.^[2]

Colorado's Mike Porcarelli reclaimed the slalom and alpine titles he won two years earlier; the repeat champions were Otto Tschudi of Denver in downhill and Bruce Cunningham of New Hampshire in Nordic combined. Denver's Odd Hammernes won his second jumping title, three years after the first.^[2]

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.^[3][4][5]