The 1963 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Solitude Ski Resort in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah at the tenth 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.
Denver, coached by Willy Schaeffler, captured their seventh, and third consecutive, national championship, again edging out rival Colorado in the team standings.
Jim Page of Dartmouth repeated as Skimeister (all four events). The downhill competition on Friday was a three-way tie, won by Dave Gorsuch of Western State and Colorado's Bill Marolt and Buddy Werner, who reclaimed the alpine combined title he won two years earlier. Future Olympic bronze medalist Jimmie Heuga of Colorado won Thursday's slalom, passing teammates Marolt and Werner in the second run.
Venue
This year's championships were held March 21–23 in Utah at Solitude in Big Cottonwood Canyon, southeast of Salt Lake City. The tenth edition, these were the second in Utah and the Wasatch Range; Snow Basin (on Mount Ogden) hosted six years earlier in 1957.
Team scoring
Rank Team Points Denver 384.6 Colorado 381.6 Dartmouth 348.9 Western State 336.4 Notre Dame 190.6 Chico State 155.0
Individual events
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles. Thursday: Slalom Friday: Downhill, Cross Country Saturday: Jumping Event Champion Skier Team Time/ScoreAlpine Buddy Werner Colorado 3:42.6Cross Country Eddie Demers Western State 66:51Downhill Dave GorsuchBill MaroltBuddy Werner Western StateColoradoColorado 1:50.0Jumping Ole Tom Nord Washington 237.35Nordic Aarne Valkama Denver 7:48.42Skimeister Jim Page Dartmouth 336.0Slalom Jimmie Heuga Colorado 1:42.0
See also List of NCAA skiing programs
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