INDIANAPOLIS — The University of Colorado ski team will be sending a full 12-member squad to Utah to defend its NCAA Championship from a season ago, the NCAA announced Monday. The championship, set for March 5-8 in Park City and Midway, Utah, will be hosted by the University of Utah.
The Buffs are one of eight teams that will send a full squad, consisting of three skiers for alpine and Nordic, both men and women. Six of the eight teams that will field full teams are from the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association with Alaska Anchorage, Denver, Montana State and New Mexico joining the Buffs and host Utes from the west while the east will send both Vermont and Dartmouth at full strength.
The Buffs will send the same six alpine skiers that helped them to the 2013 NCAA Championship with men’s alpine captain Andreas Haug set to make his fourth appearance alongside sophomores Henrik Gunnarsson and Kasper Hietanen, who will go for the second straight season. Haug has been on the traveling squad for two NCAA Championship teams for the Buffs, 2011 and ’13, while Hietanen was an All-American last year in the slalom race for the Buffaloes.
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