WATCH LIVE!
Saturday Parallel Slalom
Saturday Mass Start Cross Country
Watch at BuffsTV on YouTube.
CHECK OUT ALPINE RACE PHOTOS
Photographer Tania Coffey caught the action from the men’s GS and women’s and men’s SL on Thursday. Check out all the photos at https://SSWSC.smugmug.com
NINE OLYMPIC RACERS
Nine Olympians recently returning from the 2022 Beijing Olympics plan to race in Steamboat Springs this week! Come watch the fastest athletes in our nation take to the cross country and alpine race courses in the NCAA Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Championships ! This CU Invitational triples as the 10th Annual Spencer James Nelson Memorial Invitational and the NCAA Western Regional. This is the final qualifer for the NCAA Championships in March!
Some of the most noticible Olympian names who will be attending include Team USA cross country athletes Novie McCabe and Sophia Laukli, who teamed up with Jessie Diggins for the strongest results the USA has ever seen from cross country at the Olympics.
Additionally, the SSWSC welcomes back Alpine Olympian Katie Parker, who skied with our teams in 2017 and 2018 after graduating high school and before joining the University of Utah on their ski team.
Most of these Olympians placed in the top-20 in Beijing and hold top World Cup and Junior Wolrd Championship results!
ALPINE RACING at HOWELSEN HILL
3/24, 3/25, 3/26 from 9am-3pm
CROSS COUNTRY RACING at HOWELSEN HILL
3/25 and 3/26 with races from 10am-1pm
2022 Cross Country Olympians Competing:
Sophia Laukli, USA, University of Utah
• U.S. Ski Team D-Team
• 15th in the 30km in Beijing (teammate Jessie Diggins earned historic silver medal in this race)
• 5th in the 2021 U23 World Championships 10km
• 5th in final stage of 2022 Tour de Ski World Cup
• Silver medal in the relay at the 2020 Junior World Championships
Novie McCabe, USA, University of Utah
• U.S. Ski Team D-Team
• 18th in the 30km, 24th in the 10km, and 6th in the relay in Beijing
• 7th in final stage of 2022 Tour de Ski World Cup
• 3rd in the 5km and 15km at the 2021 NCAA Championship
• Silver medal in the relay at the 2020 Junior World Championships
JC Schoonmaker, USA, University of Alaska-Anchorage
• U.S. Ski Team A-Team
• 15th in the sprint, 9th in team sprint in Beijing
• Ranked 21 in the world in sprint
• 2022 US National Champion
Luke Jager, USA, University of Utah
• U.S. Ski Team D-Team
• 25th in the sprint, 9th in the relay in Beijing
• 2X Junior World Champion in Relay (2019 and 2020)
Mariel Pulles, Estonia, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
• competed in 3 events in Beijing
2022 Alpine Olympians Competing:
Magdalena Luczak, Poland, University of Colorado, competed in GS, SL and Team Parallel in Beijing
Tomas Birkner, Argentina, University of Utah, competed in GS and SL in Beijing
Katie Parker, Australia, University of Utah, competed in SL in Beijing
Katie Vesterstein, Estonia, University of Utah, competed in GS and SL in Beijing