RMISA Releases 2022 Ski Schedule

BOULDER - The Colorado Buffaloes will host the 2022 RMISA Championships and NCAA West Regional, it was learned Friday as the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association released its schedule for the upcoming season.

The RMISA Championships double as the NCAA West Regional and the event will also be the 10th Annual Spencer James Nelson Memorial Invitational. The Buffs will host the championship in Steamboat Springs at both Mount Werner and Howelsen Hill.

Head Coach Andy LeRoy's first season at the helm of the Buffs will begin Jan. 2 as the Nordic teams will count three competitions apart of the 2022 United States Nordic Ski Championships, the freestyle springs that day as well as the classic distance races on Jan. 6. Those two races will be a part of the Utah Invitational, then Jan. 7 classic sprint races will also count as an extra qualifier. Nordic teams will then head from Soldier Hollow in Midway, Utah, to Sun Valley for freestyle and classic races as part of the Montana State Invitational.

LeRoy heads the CU alpine teams, which will get underway Jan. 18 for three days of racing at Bridger Bowl in Bozeman, Mont., the first two days will close out the Montana State meet and the next race will open a generic RMISA Invitational, that will see four competitions from different venues combined to for a fifth regular season meet. Alpine teams then travel to Park City to close out the alpine portions of both the RMISA Invitational (Jan. 23) and then the Utah Invitational on Jan. 24-25.

February opens up with the Nordic teams heading north to Fairbanks, Alaska, where Alaska Fairbanks will host freestyle and classic races in a Nordic-only meet on Feb. 1-2, and teams will stay up to compete in the Besh Cup, with racing on Feb. 5-6 to close out the RMISA Invitational.

After over three weeks off, the alpine teams will resume competition in Aspen at the Denver Invitational, this season an alpine-only invitational, with an extra qualifier on Feb. 18 followed by two days of racing on Feb. 19-20 as part of that meet.

Teams will then descent upon Steamboat Springs where the Buffs will host 12 races over four days starting Feb. 23 with men's and women's giant slalom races at Mount Werner. Alpine teams will close out the RMISA Championships the following day at Howelsen Hill with the traditional night slalom races. Nordic teams will compete and close out the RMISA Championships at Howelsen Hill on Feb. 25-26 with 5/10K classic races followed by 15/20K freestyle races. Meanwhile, the alpine teams will host an extra slalom qualifier at Howelsen HIll on Feb. 25 and then head back to Mount Werner for an exhibition dual slalom on Feb. 26. Western ski coaches are pushing to make dual slalom an official event at the NCAA Championships, and this exhibition will serve as a run-through to try and make that a reality.

Defending NCAA Champion Utah will then host the NCAA Championships at Park City Mountain Resort and Soldier Hollow from March 9-12 to close out the season.

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