UVM junior Dom Garand won the men's slalom race, and senior 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.
 
Garand, who was making his NCAA debut this year, 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. The 55th national champion in the Vermont Ski team's history, Garand is the first Catamount to win a slalom national title since Tim Kelley (2011) and the fourth Vermont skier to win a national title in the slalom event.
 
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.

Read more on the Vermont Catamounts website.