Meisen, Lyons Race to All-American Finishes at NCAA Ski Championships

Thursday, March 10

Nordic - Women's 5K Classic / Men's 10K Classic | Alpine - Women's Giant Slalom / Men's Giant Slalom

11 AM (ET)

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NCAA Ski Championships

Bastian Meisen finished fifth in GS to earn All-American First Team

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Meisen, Lyons Race to All-American Finishes at NCAA Ski Championships

3/10/2022 7:24:00 PM | Skiing

Meisen claims First Team in giant slalom; Lyons registers Second Team in 10K classic

MIDWAY & PARK CITY, Utah – UNH graduate student alpine skier Bastian Meisen (Munich, Germany) and sophomore Nordic skier Jasmine Lyons (Ottawa, Ontario) earned All-American honors Thursday for the Wildcats on the opening day of racing at the 2022 NCAA Ski Championships, hosted by the University of Utah.

With 97.0 points, UNH is in 10^th place overall. Host Utah is atop the leaderboard with 286.5 points, followed by Colorado (262.0), Denver (249.0), Vermont (235.0) and Middlebury (131.5) to round out the Top 5.

2022 NCAA Ski Championships • Thursday, March 10
Alpine | Park City Mountain Resort • Park City, Utah
Nordic | Soldier Hollow • Midway, Utah
Full Results

"We are excited to be only 34.5 points out of fifth place," UNH ski coordinator/Nordic head coach Cory Schwartz said. "Congratulations to Jasmine and Bastian for their All-American races. Now we are looking forward to a solid day in slalom tomorrow and finishing strong on the distance skate day Saturday. We have many athletes who can score big points in those two days."

Meisen raced to fifth place and All-American First Team status in the men's giant slalom at Park City Mountain Resort with a two-run time of 1 minute, 58.40 seconds (29 points). He bested sixth-place finisher Joachim Lien of Utah by 0.21 seconds for the final First-Team berth; Lien was fourth and Meisen eighth prior to the second run.

At Soldier Hollow, Lyons completed the women's 5K classic in 14 minutes, 12.6 seconds for eighth place (23 points) and All-American Second Team recognition. Freshman Lisa Nystedt (Stockholm, Sweden) finished in 25^th place for (14:48.4) for six points, and junior Luci Anderson (Golden Valley, Minn.) placed 33^rd (15:30.3).

The UNH's men's alpine team was the top GS finisher among EISA schools and finished fifth overall with 47 points. Host Utah won the race with 75 points, followed by Denver (63), Colorado (59) and Westminster (55). Wildcat graduate student Will Bruneau-Bouchard (Quebec City, Quebec) finished in 20^th place (2:00.08, 10 points), and junior Marius Solbakken (Bekkestua, Norway) finished 24^th (2:00.24, 8 points).

Senior Fanny Sanderberg (Oslo, Norway) paced the Wildcat women's alpine efforts by clocking in at 2:07.29 (eight points), and freshman Zoe Michael (Sydney, Australia) finished in 28^th (2:09.46, three points).

In the men's 10K classic at Soldier Hollow, freshman Roger Anderson (Golden Valley, Minn.) led the Wildcats with a 22^nd-place finish (25 minutes, 50.4 seconds), followed by junior Scott Schulz (Lake Placid, N.Y.), who took 30^th (26:33.6, one point). Sophomore Seth Wyatt (Bozeman, Mont.) crossed the line in 28:05.0 (39^th).

NEXT UP
•Action continues Friday with the men's slalom (11 a.m. ET first run) followed by the women's slalom (12 p.m. ET first run) at Park City.

ABOUT UNH SKIING
•The Wildcats finished second at the 2022 EISA Championships/UNH Carnival on Feb. 25-26 at Mittersill (alpine) and Jackson XC (Nordic). That runner-up finish represented UNH's best ever at NCAA East Regionals.

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