NCAA Skiing Championships, Dartmouth College

March 8: Wall, Johansson win NCAA slaloms; Utah wins team title

March 7: Utah's Smigun repeats in NCAA women's 15-k; NMU's Cook edges Vermont's Foster in men's 20-k

March 6: Strong giant slalom showing moves Utah to top of team standings at NCAA Skiing Championships

March 5: New Mexico leads after one day of NCAA Skiing Championships

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Utah takes second-day lead at NCAA Skiing Championships

Contact: Rick Adams
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Hanover, NH -- The University of Utah took a commanding lead after two days of racing at the 2003 NCAA Skiing Men's and Women's National Collegiate Championships hosted by Dartmouth College.

Utah's Ben Thornhill took the men's giant slalom at the Dartmouth Skiway Thursday, winning the race with a two-run combined time 1:59.78. Dartmouth senior Brad Wall, who missed the 2002 collegiate racing season to compete at the Salt Lake Olympics, finished in second place Thursday, just nineteen-hundredths of a second (.19) behind Thornhill in 1:59.97. Jimmy Cochran of the University of Vermont was third in 2:00.26.

The Utes continued to gain ground in the women's GS, where Lina Johansson and Rowena Bright took second and third behind Vermont's Jamie Kingsbury (left), who won the race in 2:06.71. Johansson's second-place time was 2:07.41; Bright's two-run total was 2:08.69.

Halfway throught the Championships, Utah leads with 357 points. New Mexico, the leader after Wednesday's events, is second with 290.5 and Vermont moved into third place on the strength of Thursday's GS results with 284 points.

Friday the action shifts back to Nordic racing, with the men's 20-kilometer classical and the women's 15-kilometer classical at the Dartmouth Cross Country Center in Hanover.

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