Utah Selected As Host For 2028 NCAA Ski Championships
The NCAA has announced that the University of Utah has been selected to host the 2028 NCAA Ski Championships.
The NCAA Skiing Championships are held annually to crown the National Collegiate Athletic Association combined men's and women's team skiing champion. Before 1983, the championship was only for men's skiing. Unlike many NCAA sports, only one National Collegiate championship is held each season with teams from Division I, Division II, and Division III competing together.
The University of Denver has won a record 24 team titles, including ten since 2000. The University of Colorado is second with 20 titles (plus one AIAW title), and the University of Utah is third with 14 (plus one AIAW title)
Alpine races during the meet will be held in Park City, Utah, at the Spencer F. Eccles Olympic Mountain Center at the Utah Olympic Park. For Nordic competitions, teams will race at Soldier Hollow Nordic Center in Midway, Utah.
The 2028 event will mark the eighth time the state of Utah has hosted the NCAA Skiing Championships and first since 2022. In addition, the meet was held in Utah in 1957, '63, '81, '91, 2000 and '14.
All-time, the Utah Ski Team has won 16 national championships—15 under the NCAA umbrella—and 86 individual national titles, both the third-most of any program in the country.
As a team, two of Utah's 16 championships have come when hosting the NCAA title meet. The Utes led wire-to-wire on the way to capturing the 2022 crown and took home a men's national championship in 1981 (the NCAA combined genders in skiing in 1983).
The Utes are coming off of a 2024 season in which the team placed as the national runner-up, in the tightest-ever finish to an NCAA Championship. Utah totaled 13 All-American awards and two individual national champions in Mikkel Solbakken (men's giant slalom) and Sydney Palmer-Leger (women's 7.5K freestyle).
Prior to that, Utah won four straight team national titles from 2019-23, becoming the first ski team in the combined-gender era of NCAA skiing to four-peat.
