Ski Team in Third Place at EISA Championships (Day 1)

Friday, February 25

Alpine - GS, Mittersill / Nordic-Men's 20K Free, Women's 15K Free - Jackson XC

9:30 AM

University of New Hampshire

EISA Championships

Seth Wyatt, Scott Schulz, Roger Anderson

Seth Wyatt, Scott Schulz and Roger Anderson at Jackson XC (Photo by UNH Insider Allen Lessels)

Photo by: Allen Lessels

2/25/2022 6:59:00 PM | Skiing

Men’s Nordic and alpine each finish second on opening day of UNH Carnival / NCAA East Regionals

JACKSON & FRANCONIA, N.H. – Powered by second-place finishes in both men's Nordic and men's alpine competition Friday, the UNH ski team moved into third place at the 2022 EISA Ski Championships/UNH Carnival at Jackson XC and Mittersill.

Vermont leads the EISAs, which also serve as the NCAA East Regional Championships, with 476 points. Dartmouth is in second place (391 points), followed by UNH (384), Middlebury (345) and Colby (276) to round out the Top-5.

EISA Championships | NCAA East Regionals | UNH Carnival
Feb. 25-26, 2022 | Alpine – Mittersill | Nordic – Jackson XC
Full Results

At Jackson, Wildcat junior Scott Schulz (Lake Placid, N.Y.) placed runner-up to U.S. Olympian Ben Ogden of Vermont in the men's 20K freestyle mass start. Schulz, who equaled his best finish of the season, collected 47 points by timing in at 52 minutes, 00.7 seconds; Ogden won in a time of 51:23.6 for 50 points.

"I was in a pack of five or six for a while," Schulz said. "It was a pretty good, pretty quick pack. You get in a pack and jump out hard and after that you settle into your pack's pace. I just had to work with what I had and found some extra juice at the end."

Sophomore Seth Wyatt (Bozeman, Mont.) matched his best result of the season by coming in ninth place (54:31.8) for 33 points, and freshman Roger Anderson (Golden Valley, Minn.) rallied back from a broken pole to finish in 11^th place –tying his best of the season—in 54:48.5 for 31 points. The Wildcats' 111 team points trailed only UVM (133).

"Overall, we're very excited with how we skied today," Nordic head coach Cory Schwartz said. "The men started the day and we had two, nine and 11, and I think that's our best day of the year. It also most likely solidified Seth and Roger to make the NCAAs. That was one goal. The goal is to stay focused and ski fast and keep things simple like that."

Lisa Nystedt led the women's Nordic team with a fifth-place finish in the 15K free (Photo by UNH Insider Allen Lessels)

Freshman Lisa Nystedt (Stockholm, Sweden) headlined the Wildcat women's Nordic team by finishing in fifth place in the 15K free MS. Nystedt, who began the race 37^th, enjoyed her top result of the season in 44:17.0 for 39 points.

"Besides Scott, Lisa's the story of the day," Schwartz added. "She's continuously gotten faster and faster this year. We didn't know much about her. She didn't race much last year because of COVID, and she was injured."

"It was really fun; the course is fun," Nystedt said. "It's almost like a rollercoaster. Something is always happening out there. There are all these curves, uphills, downhills, always something."

Sophomore Lea Stabeak Wenaas (Oslo, Norway) placed 22^nd in 45:49.6 (23 points), and sophomore Alice House (Madison, Wis.) posted 20 points courtesy of her 25^th place finish (45:55.7).

"With Jasmine [Lyons] and Luci [Anderson] at the World Junior Championships, we needed three people to score, and Alice and Lea did that," Schwartz said. "It was a good performance by them, too. We're pretty happy with how everyone skied."

In the men's slalom at Mittersill, Wildcats claimed places 5-7, plus ninth. Junior Marius Solbakken (Bekkestua, Norway) paced the lineup with a fifth-place time of 1 minute, 30.76 points for 39 points. Graduate student Bastian Meisen (Munich, Germany) crossed the line in a combined 1:30.79 (37 points), and sophomore Peder Nersnaes (Oslo, Norway) picked up 35 points in 1:30.81 (seventh). Graduate student Will Bruneau-Bouchard (Quebec City, Quebec) did not get credit for EISA points with his ninth-place run (1:30.91), but he did earn 29 NCAA points.

Freshman Zoe Michael (Sydney, Australia) was the top Wildcat in the women's SL, where she finished eighth (1:42.92) for 33 points. That was followed by Fanny Sanderberg (Oslo, Norway), who placed 13^th (1:43.93, 28 points) and senior Lisa Olsson (Stockholm, Sweden), who netted 19 points by clocking in at 1:46.84 (26^th place).

NEXT UP
•The EISAs continue Saturday with the men's and women's giant slalom at Mittersill, and Nordic races at Jackson XC: the men's 10K classic and the women's 5K classic.