2017 NCAA Skiing Championships

The 2017 NCAA Skiing Championships will be held in Franconia, N.H., from March 8-11, 2017.
New Hampshire will host the meet with races taking place at Cannon Mountain. This will be the fifth time New Hampshire will serve as host of the championship and the championships will be held in the state of New Hampshire for the 10th time with Franconia and Cannon Mountain hosting for the fourth time. This will be the first time New Hampshire has hosted at Franconia, as the previous four times (1984, 1992, 1995 and 2007) New Hampshire hosted at Pinkham Notch. Franconia was the host site in 1964, 1970 and 1978 previously.
Regional Competitions
The NCAA skiing landscape is made up of three regions, each with one conference. The Western Region is comprised of the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association (RMISA), the Central Region of the Central Collegiate Ski Association (CCSA) and the Eastern Region of the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA). Qualification for the NCAA Championships is not only attained from competition in each regional.
Regional championships will take place two or three weeks prior to the NCAA Championships.
Venues And Events
The NCAA Skiing Championships are coed championship made up of eight events, two events in both alpine and Nordic racing for both men and women. Alpine events are giant slalom and slalom and Nordic events are classical and freestyle (skate). In Nordic competition, there is typically one shorter interval start race and one longer mass start race, and every two years it flips.
In 2017, the events are: Men's Giant Slalom and Women's Giant Slalom; Men's and Women's Classical; Men's and Women's Slalom; and Men's and Women's Freestyle. One alpine race is normally run to completion and the other normally alternates between men and women's first and second runs. Nordic distances are 5K and 15K for women's races and 10K and 20K for men's. One Nordic race will be an interval start and the other a mass start.
The races will all take place at Cannon Mountain.

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