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March 07, 2025 | Skiing
Wahlqvist Podiums, Luczak Injures Knee, Buffs Win Alpine Title in Roller Coaster Day
LYME, N.H. – Filip Wahlqvist hit the podium and Magdalena Luczak had a heartbreaking fall in a rollercoaster of a third day of the 2025 NCAA Ski Championships with the giant slalom races taking place at the Dartmouth Skiway Friday.
The Buffs did finish with the alpine title, scoring more alpine points than any other team in the field, finishing with 268 in the four alpine races. While not recognized by the NCAA, it is recognized as a championship by the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association. It's the Buffs first alpine championship since 2017 and just the seventh since skiing went coed in 1983.
Wahlqvist was the lowest seeded of the Buffs men's contingent here but it didn't matter and despite starting 18th, he threw down the third-fastest first run and held that position after the second run to podium in both races and pick up a second first-team All-America honor in three days.
Etienne Mazellier had a solid result of seventh place and moved up four spots after having the 11th fastest first run. Louis Fausa had a bit of bad luck as he hooked a gate on his first run, losing his pole in the process, but still managed to finished 12th in that run and moved up one spot in the second run to 11th. Mazellier earned second-team All-America honors and Fausa, who won three GS races this season and was the RMISA MVP, missed being a second-team All-American by 13-hundredths of a second.
Earlier, the women's race was looking good for the Buffs until the moment it was over, which was when Luczak fell. She had the fastest first run in the field and thus was the final racer in the second run. She had extended her lead at the intermediate time just before she fell. She was taken to the Dartmouth campus in a make-shift support on her right leg for further evaluation after the race.
Her two teammates had solid races, however, with Louison Accambray throwing down the fifth-fastest second run after a bit of a mishap on the first run. She was in 21st and moved all the way up to ninth place and earned second-team All-America honors. Ashley Campbell started 28th and had an amazing first run, the 10th fastest in the field before finishing 12th. She missed second-team All-America honors by a quarter-second.
Utah had a tremendous day, winning both races and being the third team to lead in as many days. Utah was especially impressive in the men's race, scoring 92 points, and with two races remain, has 417, a 35-point advantage over CU and 37-point advantage over Dartmouth. CU holds the slimmest of margins over the host Big Green, 382-380, entering the final day. Vermont (308) and Denver (284) round out the top five.
Dartmouth had a similar situation on the men's side as Oscar Zimmer held the first run lead and then had a near fall that moved him to 30th position. He was also in the lead at that time and looked to be heading for a win. Had both Luczak and Zimmer, whose father Fredrik Zimmer was a six-time All-American for the Buffs in the late 1980s, won their respective races, the score would have been Colorado 414, Dartmouth 411 and Utah 406 entering the final day of competition with just eight points separating the three teams.
UP NEXT: As it stands, it still all comes down to Saturday's 20K freestyle races with the top three teams all fielding solid Nordic teams. Racing will begin at 8 a.m. MT/10 a.m. local ET with the men's race followed by the women's race at 10 a.m. MT/Noon ET at Oak Hill to conclude the championship and 2025 college season.
WHAT IT MEANS: There's nothing like college skiing and still there are few roller coaster days like the one the Buffs experienced Friday. One of the best parts of college skiing is the team aspect, and it makes it that much sweeter when you do well for your team and you have a better built-in support system when things go awry. The Buffs experienced both emotions Friday and will look to the Nordic team for another heroic attempt at a comeback, not dissimilar from last season when the Buffs overcame the second-largest final day deficit to win by the smallest margin under the current scoring system. If the Buffs pull it off it would be the fourth-largest final-day comeback, and CU already owns the two largest comebacks in the championship's history, 51 points last season and 54 points in 2013.
ALL-AMERICAN NOTES:
TEAM NOTES:
WOMEN'S ALPINE NOTES
MEN'S ALPINE NOTES
WOMEN'S GIANT SLALOM (30 collegiate finishers): 1. Sara Rask, DU, 1:56.23; 2. Justine Lamontagne, MSU, 1:56.88; 3. Hanna Larsson Nathhorst, UVM, 1:57.94; 4. Carmen Nielssen, UAA, 1:58.02; 5. Kaja Norbye, UU, 1:58.16; 6. Claire Timmermann, UU, 1:58.27; 7. Dasha Romanov, UNH, 1:58.38; 8. Zoe Zimmermann, DAR, 1:58.53; 9. Louison Accambray, CU, 1:58.68; 10. Mia Hunt, DU, 1:58.80. Other CU Finishers: 12. Ashley Campbell, 1:59.05. Did Not Finish Second Run: Magdalena Luczak.
MEN'S GIANT SLALOM (32 collegiate finishers): 1. Johs Herland, UU, 1:53.35; 2. Benny Brown, DAR, 1:53.54; 3. Filip Wahlqvist, CU, 1:53.66; 4. Bradshaw Underhill, MID, 1:53.69; 5. Simen Strand, UU, 1:53.83; 6. Daniel Gillis, DAR, 1:54.36; 7. Etienne Mazellier, CU, 1:54.42; 8. Sindre Myklebust, UU, 1:54.48; 9. Thomas Hoffman, DU, 1:54.60; 10. Pietro Motterlini, DU, 1:54.63; Other CU Finisher: 11. Louis Fausa, 1:54.76.
The Buffs did finish with the alpine title, scoring more alpine points than any other team in the field, finishing with 268 in the four alpine races. While not recognized by the NCAA, it is recognized as a championship by the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association. It's the Buffs first alpine championship since 2017 and just the seventh since skiing went coed in 1983.
Wahlqvist was the lowest seeded of the Buffs men's contingent here but it didn't matter and despite starting 18th, he threw down the third-fastest first run and held that position after the second run to podium in both races and pick up a second first-team All-America honor in three days.
Etienne Mazellier had a solid result of seventh place and moved up four spots after having the 11th fastest first run. Louis Fausa had a bit of bad luck as he hooked a gate on his first run, losing his pole in the process, but still managed to finished 12th in that run and moved up one spot in the second run to 11th. Mazellier earned second-team All-America honors and Fausa, who won three GS races this season and was the RMISA MVP, missed being a second-team All-American by 13-hundredths of a second.
Earlier, the women's race was looking good for the Buffs until the moment it was over, which was when Luczak fell. She had the fastest first run in the field and thus was the final racer in the second run. She had extended her lead at the intermediate time just before she fell. She was taken to the Dartmouth campus in a make-shift support on her right leg for further evaluation after the race.
Her two teammates had solid races, however, with Louison Accambray throwing down the fifth-fastest second run after a bit of a mishap on the first run. She was in 21st and moved all the way up to ninth place and earned second-team All-America honors. Ashley Campbell started 28th and had an amazing first run, the 10th fastest in the field before finishing 12th. She missed second-team All-America honors by a quarter-second.
Utah had a tremendous day, winning both races and being the third team to lead in as many days. Utah was especially impressive in the men's race, scoring 92 points, and with two races remain, has 417, a 35-point advantage over CU and 37-point advantage over Dartmouth. CU holds the slimmest of margins over the host Big Green, 382-380, entering the final day. Vermont (308) and Denver (284) round out the top five.
Dartmouth had a similar situation on the men's side as Oscar Zimmer held the first run lead and then had a near fall that moved him to 30th position. He was also in the lead at that time and looked to be heading for a win. Had both Luczak and Zimmer, whose father Fredrik Zimmer was a six-time All-American for the Buffs in the late 1980s, won their respective races, the score would have been Colorado 414, Dartmouth 411 and Utah 406 entering the final day of competition with just eight points separating the three teams.
UP NEXT: As it stands, it still all comes down to Saturday's 20K freestyle races with the top three teams all fielding solid Nordic teams. Racing will begin at 8 a.m. MT/10 a.m. local ET with the men's race followed by the women's race at 10 a.m. MT/Noon ET at Oak Hill to conclude the championship and 2025 college season.
WHAT IT MEANS: There's nothing like college skiing and still there are few roller coaster days like the one the Buffs experienced Friday. One of the best parts of college skiing is the team aspect, and it makes it that much sweeter when you do well for your team and you have a better built-in support system when things go awry. The Buffs experienced both emotions Friday and will look to the Nordic team for another heroic attempt at a comeback, not dissimilar from last season when the Buffs overcame the second-largest final day deficit to win by the smallest margin under the current scoring system. If the Buffs pull it off it would be the fourth-largest final-day comeback, and CU already owns the two largest comebacks in the championship's history, 51 points last season and 54 points in 2013.
ALL-AMERICAN NOTES:
- Wahlqvist earned first-team All-America honor, his second of the championship, third first-team honor in his career and fourth overall honor in four races at NCAAs.
- Mazellier earned second-team All-America honors for the second straight race,
- Accambray earned second-team All-America honors, now two-for-two in NCAA honors, both second-team honors.
- CU now has nine All-America honors with one day remaining, third behind Utah (12) and Dartmouth (11).
- With three honors, CU now has 571 All-America honors in its history with 322 men's and 249 women's honors, and CU has 328 first-team honors in its history 185 of them from men's skiers.
TEAM NOTES:
- CU scored 120 points in the two races, third most on the day behind Utah (160) and Denver (123), and just ahead of Dartmouth (112.5) and Vermont (100).
- In alpine, CU scored 268 points, winning the alpine title by 21 points over Utah (247) with Denver (230) taking third.
- CU scored 41 points in the women's race, eighth most but just 27 behind Utah's total of 68. Accambray scored 22 points and Campbell 19.
- CU scored 79 points in the men's race with Wahlqvist scoring 34, Mazellier 25 and Fausa 20. CU was second in the race behind Utah's total of 92.
- Ironically if Luczak had won the women's race, the CU women would have also scored exactly 79 points.
WOMEN'S ALPINE NOTES
- Accambray finished ninth and her clutch second run that moved her up an astonishing 12 places kept her season of top 10 finishes alive. She finished 12 of 14 races this season, six of seven in each discipline, and didn't finish lower than ninth in any race. She ended with eight top 5s, five podiums and three wins in those races.
- Campbell finished 12, her second best GS finish of the season behind a ninth place finish in a qualifier race ahead of the Utah Invitational. She finished the season finishing eight of 14 races and in the top 20 in all eight races with four top 10s and two podiums.
- Luczak didn't finish the race. It was her first DNF of her career in college racing, although she hiked in two slalom races her freshman year. In her GS career, she has finished seven of eight races with a worst finish of fifth, six podiums and five wins. Overall she has seven wins, 10 podiums, 12 top 5s and 14 top 10s in 16 finished races out of 17 starts.
MEN'S ALPINE NOTES
- Wahlqvist finished third, earning a podium in both NCAA races after taking second in the slalom race on Wednesday. He capped a tremendous season in which he finished 13 of 14 races, all in the top 10 with 10 top 5s, seven podiums and five race wins.
- Mazellier finished seventh also capping his perfect season of top 10 performances. He skied in 10 college races on the season, finishing eight with eight top 10s, five top 5s, three podiums and a race win.
- Fausa finished 11th and capped an amazing career. This season he finished 13 of 14 races, all in the top 20 and 11 in the top 15 with nine top 10s, six top 5s and four podiums including three race wins, the first three of his career. In his career, he started a CU record 63 races and finished 47 of them with 45 in the top 20, 33 in the top 10 and 16 in the top 5 including eight podiums and those three wins.
WOMEN'S GIANT SLALOM (30 collegiate finishers): 1. Sara Rask, DU, 1:56.23; 2. Justine Lamontagne, MSU, 1:56.88; 3. Hanna Larsson Nathhorst, UVM, 1:57.94; 4. Carmen Nielssen, UAA, 1:58.02; 5. Kaja Norbye, UU, 1:58.16; 6. Claire Timmermann, UU, 1:58.27; 7. Dasha Romanov, UNH, 1:58.38; 8. Zoe Zimmermann, DAR, 1:58.53; 9. Louison Accambray, CU, 1:58.68; 10. Mia Hunt, DU, 1:58.80. Other CU Finishers: 12. Ashley Campbell, 1:59.05. Did Not Finish Second Run: Magdalena Luczak.
MEN'S GIANT SLALOM (32 collegiate finishers): 1. Johs Herland, UU, 1:53.35; 2. Benny Brown, DAR, 1:53.54; 3. Filip Wahlqvist, CU, 1:53.66; 4. Bradshaw Underhill, MID, 1:53.69; 5. Simen Strand, UU, 1:53.83; 6. Daniel Gillis, DAR, 1:54.36; 7. Etienne Mazellier, CU, 1:54.42; 8. Sindre Myklebust, UU, 1:54.48; 9. Thomas Hoffman, DU, 1:54.60; 10. Pietro Motterlini, DU, 1:54.63; Other CU Finisher: 11. Louis Fausa, 1:54.76.
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