Bobcats Finish Fifth at NCAA Skiing Championships

Montana State's Tilde Baangman and Florian Winker each earned Second Team All-America honors on the final day of the 71^st NCAA Skiing Championships, guiding the Bobcats to a fifth-place team finish on Saturday afternoon at Howelsen Hill.

Baangman capped an outstanding season which saw her post ten top 5 finishes with a seventh place showing in the 20km classic. The product of Oestersund, Sweden clocked 1:03.03.8 registering 25 points. Teammate Kate Oldham just missed her second All-America honor placing 11^th in 1:04.17.3.

Dartmouth's Jasmine Drolet won the event in 1:02.38.2.

Winker put together one of his best races of the season finishing ninth in a time of 56:45.4. Fredrik Nilsen, 20^th, 58:46.9, and Kai Meyers, 38^th, 1:02.56.1, completed MSU's championship appearance.

Colorado's Magnus Boee captured the men's 20km classic title in 55:38.0.

Behind the Nordic contingent's 78-point output the Bobcats finished fifth in the final team standings, marking just the third time in the last 25 years MSU has placed in the top five. Montana State's best showing came in 2016 with a fourth-place finish also in Steamboat Springs.

Colorado squeezed by four-time defending champion Utah by two points. The Buffaloes posted 569.5 points, followed by Utah, 567.5, Denver 491, Dartmouth 399, MSU 329, Vermont 300, Alaska-Anchorage 274, New Hampshire 192, Alaska Fairbanks 175, and Middlebury 159 in the top ten.

In all, the Bobcats earned nine All-America honors, finishing behind Colorado and Denver 14, and Utah 13. All three schools fielded a full 12-competitors, while MSU qualified nine participants. In the final standings, MSU finished ahead of Vermont (12), New Hampshire (11) and Alaska Anchorage (10)- all of which sent more racers to the NCAA Championships than the Bobcats.

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Players Mentioned

Kai Meyers

Fredrik Nilsen

Kate Oldham

Florian Winker

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