Skiing to Open 2018 NCAA Season Wednesday

BOULDER — The Colorado ski team is set to open its 28th season under head coach Richard Rokos this week when the Buffalo Nordic team competes at the U.S. Cross Country Championships in Anchorage, Alaska and at the alpine team at the Montana State Invitational.

Colorado's Nordic team, now in its 17th season under Head Nordic Coach Bruce Cranmer, will race in the 10- and 15-kilometer freestyle races on Jan. 3 and the freestyle sprint races on Jan. 5 at Kincaid Park. The races are being held independent of a team meet and will not be scored, but do count individually towards NCAA qualification in the same manner the RMISA qualifiers do for the student-athletes on the alpine side. Live video from the Cross Country Championships is available on the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/usskiandsnowboard/).

Racing for the Buffs on both days is scheduled to start at noon.

The alpine teams will be at Big Sky Resort and open on Saturday, Jan. 6 with the men's and women's RMISA giant slalom qualifier races. CU will follow on Sunday and Monday with the two days of the alpine events in the Montana State Invitational, a meet the Buffaloes have won six times in the 14 years it has operated.

Colorado won four individual races at last season's MSU Invite and claimed the meet by a 66½ point margin of victory.

Alpine live scoring will be available at http://ussalivetiming.com.

The Nordic portion of this year's Montana State Invitational will be held Jan. 13-14 at the Rendezvous Ski Trails in West Yellowstone.

The qualifier races, Nordic and alpine, are used as an extra opportunity for skiers to earn qualification points for the NCAA Championships at the end of the season. Colorado hosts both the RMISA (Feb. 23-25) and NCAA Championships (March 7-10) this winter at Steamboat Springs, Colo.

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