| Follow @UVMskiing Dom Garand won the men's slalom race and
Kristina Riis-Johannessen was the national runner-up in the women's slalom to lead the Vermont Catamounts on the final day of competition at the NCAA Ski Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y.
The Catamounts were able to move up one spot on the final day of racing to finish fourth overall in the team standings. Colorado won its 20th national championship in skiing with 505 points. Denver placed second (478 pts) and was followed by Utah (471 pts) and Vermont (443 pts). New Mexico rounded out the top five teams with 402 points.
RELATED LINKSPhoto Gallery Team Scores (.pdf)Men's Slalom Results (.pdf)Women's Slalom Results (.pdf) Garand, who was making his NCAA debut this week, posted the second best time on each run and beat out Denver's Trevor Phillip by 0.17 seconds to capture his first national championship. Garand posted a winning time of 1:55.03.
Garand was one of three skiers in the alpine field to earn All-America First-Team honors in both the giant slalom and slalom races. He is the first Catamount to win a slalom national title since Tim Kelley (2011) and is the fourth Vermont skier to win a national title in the slalom event.
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Taylor Wunsch added a fifth place finish for Vermont, as Garand and Wunsch were the top two Eastern skiers in the race.
Will St. Germain finished 16th overall.
Kristina Riis-Johannessen Riis-Johannessen led the women's slalom race after the first run, but Denver's Monica Huebner edged Riis-Johannessen out in the second run to win the race by 0.25 seconds. Riis-Johannessen, the 2014 national champion in the event, finished second for the third time in four NCAA appearances.
Denver teammate Kristine Gjelsten Haugen joined Huebner on the podium.
Elli Terwiel closed out her Vermont career with a fifth place finish (1:57.63) and Laurance St. Germain was 10th (1:58.76).
2015 National Champions Dom Garand – slalom
2015 All-Americans Dom Garand – First Team All-American (GS & SL)
Taylor Wunsch – First Team All-American (SL)
Will St. Germain – Second Team All-American (GS)
Kristina Riis-Johannessen – First Team All-American (SL)
Elli Terwiel – First Team All-American (SL)
Laurence St. Germain – Second Team All-American (SL)
Jack Hegman – Second Team All-American (FS)
Rogan Brown – Second Team All-American (FS)
Jorgen Grav – Second Team All-American (CL)
MK Cirelli – Second Team All-American (CL)
NOTES: Garand is the 55th national champion in the Vermont Ski team's history … Vermont had the second highest point total in the alpine team standings … Every alpine skier and 10 of the 12 Catamounts earned All-America honors.
