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1989 NCAA Skiing Championships

American college skiing competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ85726165 ↗
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The 1989 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming as the 36th annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's collegiate slalom and cross-country skiing in the United States.

Vermont, coached by Chip LaCasse, claimed their second team national championship, just four points ahead of three-time defending champions Utah in the cumulative team standings.

Venue

This year's championships were contested at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. These were the second NCAA championships held at Jackson Hole as well as the second in the state of Wyoming (1974 and 1989).

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This entry incorporates text from “1989 NCAA Skiing Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.