<p>I found out last week about Brown and Dartmouth's alpine ski teams, and it made me excited since it's one of the few Swedish stereotypes that I actually conform to. How difficult is it to get on the teams? What other schools have them?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/dtmcbride/sports/skiing-college.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.geocities.com/dtmcbride/sports/skiing-college.html</a>
I think both your questions will be answered at this site. There are two leagues, and Brown and Dartmouth are in different ones.</p>
<p>"Site is temporarily unavailable." Thanks for the link, though--I'll check back later. :)</p>
<p>I did some googling, and apparently it's much more common than I thought. I'm excited... :D</p>
<p>"The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer." Huh. The raw power of a mention on CC :)</p>
<p>You will find many colleges/universities have ski/snowboard teams - even schools in the mid/atlantic/south area - haha - like North Carolina - hey my DD is on the snowboard team at her school in NC - has been to nationals twice - you will find that some schools have 'varsity' type teams - and some schools have 'club' teams - but both organizations have competition up to the national level in most places for skiing and snowboarding - and also X-country for some schools</p>
<p>I believe these are the major college ski organizations. The latter two are actually divisions of the same league (Intercollegiate Ski Association), and I believe much tougher, i.e., NCAA D-1 type competition. If the original (low-bandwidth) site I linked comes up again, it does a really good job of laying out the whole college skiing landscape.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.uscsa.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.uscsa.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.eisaskiing.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.eisaskiing.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.rmisa.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.rmisa.org/</a></p>
<p>Skiing is very big at most NE schools. It's a big committment as you work out to train all year. Most teams are very competitive in terms of being recruited.</p>
<p>zagat: That's interesting; thanks for the info. Do you think it's possible to try out without being recruited, though? I'm pretty good, but I'm not on a team or anything.</p>
<p>the OP ought to post a question on the parents forum. I remember reading some posts from parents who went thru the whole recruiting process and have children on college ski teams. They could be a good source of info on how to get recruited, what is available at various schools/levels, etc.</p>
<p>There is definitely organized NCAA skiing. I love to ski, and going to college near skiing would be cool. Anyway, I believe that some of the best college ski teams are Dartmouth, U Colorado, and New Mexico.</p>
<p>Thisyearsgirl, the are walkons in most sports. If you've never raced competitively perhaps you could take a few lessons and have a professional assess your skills.</p>
<p>I've taken lessons several times before, and I've skiied for recreation almost every year since I was eight--though usually in Sweden and never competitively. I'm going to have to do some more research...</p>
<p>My friend's son who is hoping to Ski for Dartmouth is off next week to Argentina for summer ski practice. These kids are really serious. If you have some specific questions, I'll try to get you answers. Good idea to try the parent's board, there are definitely some ski parents there.</p>