The 1958 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme, New Hampshire at the fifth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States.
Host Dartmouth, coached by Al Merrill, edged four-time defending champion Denver in the team standings to claim their first national championship.
For the first time in its brief history, there were no repeat individual NCAA champions.
Venue
This year's championships were held February 28 to March 2 in New Hampshire at the Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme, hosted by nearby Dartmouth College.
The fifth edition, these were the first NCAA championships in New Hampshire and the second in the East; the 1955 events were in central Vermont at Northfield, about northwest of Lyme.
The championships returned to Dartmouth Skiway in 1964, but rain forced the transfer of the alpine events to Cannon Mountain; the next time at Dartmouth was in 2003. The vertical drop of the Skiway in 2020 was approximately .
Team scoring
Rank Team Points Dartmouth (H) 561.2 Denver 550.6 Colorado 532.6 Middlebury 525.2 St. Lawrence 502.9 New Hampshire 440.7 Michigan Tech 374.3
Individual events
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.
Event Champion Skier Team Time/ScoreAlpine Dave Vorse Dartmouth 1:38.2Cross Country Clarence Servold Denver 63:50Downhill Gary Vaughn Norwich 1:48.5Jumping Oddvar Rønnestad Denver 214.7Nordic Clarence Servold Denver 1:33.5Skimeister Dave Harwood Dartmouth 366.9Slalom Robert Gebhardt Dartmouth 1:38.1
See also List of NCAA skiing programs
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