Running Down a Dream: Rene Reisshauer (Erfurt, Germany) won four of the five classical races this season, and took first in the freestyle at the Denver Invitational, the only meet in which he did not win the classical - he came in second. Reisshauer won both Nordic races at the 2005 NCAA Championships, becoming the first DU skier to sweep the events since Ola Berger in 2002. Otto Tschudi holds the DU career record for individual NCAA Championships with five from 1970-72. Tschudi also holds the record for most individual championships at a single NCAA Championships with three (alpine, downhill and slalom), set in 1971. That record is unlikely to be broken anytime soon, since there are now only two disciplines each for alpine and Nordic skiers.

Repeat After Me: John Stene (Trondheim, Norway), Denver's only national champion in 2006 with a win in classical, looks to become DU's first back-to-back winner of an individual national championship since Pietro Broggini defended his 2000 Nordic freestyle win with another victory at the 2001 NCAA Championships. DU has had four repeat champions in its skiing history: Willis Olson (ski jumping, 1954-56), Otto Tschudi (downhill, 1970-72), Roberta Pergher (slalom, 1996-97) and Broggini (freestyle, 2000-01). Stene finished second, behind teammate Reisshauer, in the last two classical races of the season, and he won the freestyle at the NCAA Western Regional.

Three's Company: This year mark the third consecutive NCAA Championship that Rene Reisshauer, John Stene and Havard Selseng (Sogndal, Norway) have represented DU in the men's Nordic races. With those three anchoring the team, the Pioneers have won 15-of-17 classical races and six freestyle events since the beginning of the 2005 season. All three plan to return to the Pioneers in 2008.

Quick Adjustment: Denver newcomer Annelise Bailly (Ruffieu, France) wasted no time in adjusting to collegiate competition, winning the freestyle at her first college meet. In fact, Bailly won three freestyle races this season and finished third and fourth in the other two. In freestyle, Bailly finished fourth at New Mexico and 12th or better in the other four races.

Diamond Some Day: Former junior world champion Adam Cole (Park City, Utah) heads to New Hampshire looking for his first NCAA title. After returning from the 2007 Winter World University Games in Italy with three medals, Cole won the giant slalom at the Montana State Invitational and finished in the top-three of the next four races.

More on Men's Alpine: Joining Cole at the NCAA Championship are John Buchar (Ostersund, Sweden) and Francesco Ghedina (Cortina, Italy). DU's men's alpine team has won three of the four giant slalom races this season, as well as the last two slalom competitions. Ghedina won the slalom at the NCAA Western Regional, 0.73 seconds ahead of Buchar. Ghedina has finished no worse than seventh in his past seven races, while Buchar has finished in the top-seven in five of his last six races. However, DU has gone without a national champion since Jayme Smithers won the slalom in 1999. Denver's last title in the GS was Erik Roland in 1994.

Four Scores in Seven Years: Denver has won four NCAA Championships in skiing since 2000. The Pioneers' skiing title in 2005 was DU's 25th championship overall: 18 in skiing and seven in hockey. Utah (2003), New Mexico (2004) and Colorado (2006) have the other three titles this decade.

This One Goes to 11: DU qualified 11 skiers for the NCAAs, one short of the full allotment. However, Courtney Dauwalter (Edina, Minn.) is the first alternate, so if any women's Nordic skier cannot race, Dauwalter could compete.

Coached by Champions: Denver's first-year head coaches, alpine coach Andy LeRoy and Nordic coach Wolf Wallendorf, both won national championships during their college careers. LeRoy won the slalom at the 2000 NCAA National Championships while at the University of Colorado after a six-year stint on the U.S. Ski Team that included a trip to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Wallendorf, meanwhile, was a key factor in the University of Denver's three-peat champions from 2000-02, winning the 2001 classical and finishing in the top-10 six times. Wallendorf was promoted to head coach after serving as DU's assistant Nordic coach for two seasons. First-year alpine assistant coach Chris Berg finished seventh in the giant slalom at the 2003 championships. First-year assistant Nordic coach Dave Stewart was a 2006 national champion in the sprint relay while racing professionally after graduating from Vermont.

Thirty-three days, three states and two postponements after the beginning of the Montana State Invitational, the University of Denver finally came away with second place following the giant slalom races, which were postponed twice before finally taking place in New Mexico on Feb. 8, more than a month after the Montana State Invitational began. The Pioneers scored 550 points, trailing Colorado's 579.5 points.

Despite winning three of the eight races, the Pioneers ended the Utah Invitational in third place with 522 points, trailing Colorado (552) and Utah (537).

With three individual wins and 13 additional top-10 finishes, Denver won its invitational with 550 points, beating second-place Colorado by 16 points.

The University of Denver dominated the New Mexico Invitational, scoring 592.5 points and beating second-place Colorado by 107.5 points. The winning margin was the largest in a Western invitational since the sport went coed in 1983 and the largest margin overall since Utah won the 2003 NCAA Championship by 131 points.

Pioneer skiers won four of the six races and another two finished second, as DU won the NCAA Western Regional with 426 points, 17 better than second-place Colorado. Denver qualified 11 skiers for the NCAA Championships, missing a full team by one women's Nordic skier. Due to poor weather conditions, the giant slalom races at the Regional were canceled.