Skiing Clinches RMISA Championship With Big Final Day at Soldier Hollow

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Skiing Clinches RMISA Championship With Big Final Day at Soldier Hollow

2/27/2021 4:17 PM | Skiing

Results

Utes Have Won Every Meet this Season

MIDWAY – The Utah ski team won the RMISA Championship keeping them perfect on the season as they have won every meet this season.

The Nordic team raced the final two days at Soldier Hollow clinching the region championship by totaling 394 points leading the Utes to an 84-point win over Colorado.

"It feels great to win," Director of Skiing Fredrik Landstedt said. "It was an incredible finish to the regular season for both the men and the women. They skied really well yesterday and today and have been doing an incredible job in tough conditions all year."

On the final day, the women's team got first and second in the 15K with Novie McCabe earning her fifth win of the season and Sydney Palmer-Leger coming in right behind her in second. Mariah Bredal was the third Ute to come across the line finishing in fifth.

"Novie and Sydney have just been incredible as freshman," Landstedt said. "We knew they were fast, but they've really taken another step this year. Now, they're just dominating this series so hopefully they can keep this same shape at NCAAs. It'll be fun to head east and have some great races out there."

The other Utes weren't far behind as Karianne Moe came in ninth, Julia Richter finished in 13^th and Abby Jarzin came in 17^th.

The men's side was equally as strong with Samuel Hendry leading the way finishing in second followed by Bjørn Riksaasen coming in fifth and Luke Jager coming in seventh. Ola Jordheim finished in ninth and Noel Keeffe came in 24^th.

Right as the women's race finished capping the RMISA Championship, the snow started coming down as awards were handed out from the last two days and Utah was crowned as region champs.

Now, the only meet left for Utah skiing will be the NCAA Championship Mach 10-13. The distances raced this weekend in the RMISA Championship will be the same distances raced at the NCAA Championship in New Hampshire.