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Ben Ogden: Balancing Olympic, NCAA Skiing Ambitions Alongside a New Wave of Top U.S. Skiers

By U.S. Ski & Snowboard
April, 13 2022
Ben Ogden
Ben Ogden competed at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, then went on to sweep the NCAA Championships in March (U.S. Ski & Snowboard)

In the same year that Ben Ogden raced the Olympics, someway and somehow, he won an NCAA Championship.

That confluence of talent and time has happened exactly twice before Ogden, and once after. The first before came a half-century ago, when fellow Vermonter Stan Dunklee represented the USA at the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics before winning NCAAs a couple weeks later. The second before came a mere two hours prior to Ogden, when Novie McCabe (University of Utah) won the this year’s women’s 5 k Classic NCAA Championship. Likewise, the one time after came when Sophia Laukli (University of Utah) won this year’s 15 k Freestyle NCAA Championship.

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