Tournament information | |
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Sport | College skiing |
Location | Crested Butte, Colorado |
Dates | March 3–5, 1966 |
Administrator | NCAA |
Venue(s) | Crested Butte |
Teams | 9 |
Number of events | 4 (7 titles) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Denver (10th title) |
1st runners-up | Western State |
2nd runners-up | Wyoming |
The 1966 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Crested Butte ski area in Created Butte, Colorado at the thirteenth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States.[1]
Denver, coached by Willy Schaeffler, captured their tenth, and sixth consecutive, national championship, edging out locals Western State in the team standings.[1][2] The Pioneers' sole individual win was by Terje Øverland in downhill.[1]
Repeat individual champions were Mike Elliott of Fort Lewis in cross country,[3] and Western State's Loris Werner (skimeister). Bill Marolt of Colorado won the slalom and alpine titles to add to his two previous in downhill (1963, 1965). Utah's Frithjof Prydz regained the jumping crown he won two years earlier and added the nordic.[1][2]