| 1962 NCAA Skiing Championships | |
| Sport: | College skiing |
| Location: | Olympic Valley, California |
| Start Date: | March 22 |
| End Date: | 25, 1962 |
| Administrator: | NCAA |
| Venues: | Squaw Valley |
| Teams: | 7 |
| Events: | 4 (7 titles) |
| Champions: | Denver (6th title) |
| Runners-Up1: | Colorado |
| Runners-Up2: | Western State |
| Previous: | 1961 |
| Next: | 1963 |
The 1962 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort in Olympic Valley, California at the ninth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States.[1]
Denver, coached by Willy Schaeffler, captured their sixth national championship (and second consecutive), edging out rival Colorado in the team standings.[2] [3]
Scheduled as the opening event on Thursday, the downhill was postponed to Saturday due to heavy snowfall, and the jumping moved to Sunday.[4] [5]
Utah's Jim Gaddis reclaimed the alpine title he won two years earlier; he won the slalom,[6] and was runner-up in the downhill, just a tenth of a second behind.[2] [7]
See main article: Squaw Valley Ski Resort. This year's championships were held March 22–25 in California at Squaw Valley in Olympic Valley. Two years earlier, Squaw Valley had hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics.[8]
The ninth NCAA championships, these were the first in California and the second in the Lake Tahoe area of the Sierra Nevada (1954 in Reno, Nevada).
| Rank | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver | 390.08 | ||
| Colorado | 374.30 | ||
| 361.40 | |||
| 356.32 | |||
| 333.79 | |||
| 294.17 | |||
| 280.51 |
Four events were held, which yielded seven individual titles.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | Champion | |||
| Skier | Team | Time/Score | ||
| Jim Gaddis | 3:29.7 | |||
| 59:03< | -- .7 --> | |||
| Myke Baar | 1:44.8 | |||
 Oyvind Floystad | 223.6 | |||
| Tor Fageraas | 3:13.57 | |||
| Skimeister | 361.67 | |||
| Jim Gaddis | 1:26.7 | |||