Seawolves compete at RMISAs this week

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1 SKI SID: DALLAS BALDWIN OFFICE: (907) FAX: (907) UAA SPORTS INFORMATION WELLS FARGO SPORTS COMPLEX RM providence dr anchorage, ak Feb. 20, 2012 Seawolves compete at RMISAs this week 2012 SCHEDULE DATE EVENT LOCATION TIME/RESULTS Nov Alaska Nordic Cup at Fairbanks, Alaska UAA 45, UAF 39 Jan. 6 RMISA Alpine Qualifier at Eldora, Colo. No TM Score Jan Colorado Invite at Eldora/Steamboat Springs, Colo. 3rd (9) Jan Denver Invite at Winter Park/Granby, Colo. 3rd (9) Feb Alaska Anchorage Invite at Anchorage/Girdwood, Alaska 4th (8) Feb Seawolf Invite at Anchorage/Girdwood, Alaska 5th (8) Feb RMISA Alpine Qualifier at Big Sky, Mont. All Day Feb RMISA/West Regional at Big Sky/Bozeman, Mont. All Day March 7-10 NCAA Championships at Big Sky/Bozeman, Mont. All Day THIS WEEK: Alaska Anchorage will head to Montana for the final portion of the 2012 skiing slate with a RMISA Alpine Qualifier on Feb , before competing in the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association / NCAA West Regional Championships on Feb MEET DETAILS WHO: Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association members WHAT: RMISA Alpine Qualifier, RMISA / NCAA Western Regional Championships WHEN: Feb WHERE: Big Sky, Mont. (Alpine) and Bozeman, Mont. (Nordic) MEDIA: Updates can be followed on UAA s Facebook and Twitter sites. NOTES: The Seawolves will look to qualify a full team 12 participants to the NCAA Skiing Championships in March with the RMISA/Western Regional Championships this weekend... at last year s conference championship, the Seawolves finished fifth with 747 points, just two points shy of fourth-place Denver (749)... currently, the Seawolves are fourth in the RMISA regular season team standings with 2,912 points, trailing third-place DU (3,074)... the UAA women s Nordic team leads the RMISA with 902 points over second-place Utah (839). See complete RMISA standings on pages 4 and 5. UP NEXT: Qualified individuals will return to Big Sky and Bozeman, Mont., for the 2012 NCAA Skiing Championships on March SEAWOLF BITES: For the first time since the 2009 season, the Seawolves hosted races in Alaska, Feb the last time UAA hosted, it posted a program-best 1st-place team finish at the Seawolf Invite and third place at the Alaska Anchorage Invite... after claiming the Alaska Nordic Cup for the first time since 2006, UAA has posted third-place team finishes at the Colorado Invite and Denver Invite, respectively... in between 2009 and this season, UAA had only one other 3rd-place team finish, recorded at the New Mexico Invite in the Seawolves also finished fourth at the UAA Invite, Feb SKIER NOTES: Individually, the trio of Jaime Bronga, Laura Rombach and Steffi Hiemer are producing a stellar senior campaign on the cross country courses... Bronga, from Anchorage, has posted two individual RMISA wins and two runner-up performances without finishing lower than fourth all season... Bronga has already been crowned the RMISA women s Nordic MVP with 387 points... the last Seawolf to claim a RMISA MVP award 2012 QUICK FACTS GENERAL Name: University of Alaska Anchorage Location: 3211 Providence Dr. Anchorage, AK Founded: 1977 Enrollment: 20,554 Nickname: Seawolves Colors: Green & Gold Affiliation: NCAA Division II Conference: Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association Chancellor: Tom Case Athletics Director: Dr. Steve Cobb Athletic Dept. Phone: Ticket Office Phone: Home Venues: Alyeska Resort & Kincaid Park Affiliation: NCAA Division II COACHING STAFF Head Coach: Sparky Anderson Alma Mater: Nevada, 91 Assistant Nordic Coach: Andrew Kastning Alma Mater: Vermont, 04 Assistant Alpine Coach: Julie-Pierre Leclerc Alma Mater: UAA, 07 Assistant Nordic Coach: Tor Christopherson HISTORY / TEAM INFORMATION First year of intercollegiate skiing: 1977 All-time All American certificates: 126 (W-57; M-69) Best NCAA Result: 4th (2009) Individual NCAA Titles: 9 Best RMISA Result: 2nd (2010) 2011 NCAA Finish: 7th 2011 RMISA/NCAA West Regional Finish: 5th 2012 ALASKA ANCHORAGE ROSTER Andreas Adde ALP Jr. Osteras, Norway Sean Alexander ALP Fr. Calgary, Alberta Cameron Brewington ALP Jr. Calgary, Alberta Brandon Brewster NOR Fr. Anchorage, Alaska Davis Dunlap NOR Fr. Palmer, Alaska Lukas Ebner NOR So. Furtwangen, Germany Niko Harmanen ALP Fr. Saarenkyla, Finland Galen Johnston NOR Fr. Talkeetna, Alaska Lutz Klausmann NOR Fr. Furtwangen, Germany Christopher Kollenborg ALP So. Haslum, Norway Lasse Molgaard-Nielsen NOR So. Copenhagen, Denmark Max Treinen NOR Sr. Anchorage, Alaska James Schindler ALP Fr. Steamboat Springs, Colo. Nevio Zeni NOR Fr. Tesero, Italy Women Anna Berecz ALP Fr. Budapest, Hungary Vanessa Berther ALP Fr. Bellevue, Wash. Ida Bjerka ALP Jr. Tromsoe, Norway Jaime Bronga NOR Sr. Anchorage Alaska Taylor Guetschow ALP Fr. Park City, Utah Steffi Hiemer NOR Sr. Kruen, Germany Kayla Hoog-Fry ALP Jr. Reno, Nevada Sandra MacDonald ALP Sr. Summerland, B.C. Alex Parker ALP Sr. Calgary, Alberta Maya Radonich NOR Fr. Anchorage, Alaska Laura Rombach NOR Sr. Neukirch, Germany Karina Smith NOR Jr. Bekkestua, Norway Anais Urbain ALP Fr. Bourg-Saint-Maurice, France Follow your Seawolves on BRONGA 31 NCAA APPEARANCES 9 NCAA INDIVIDUAL TITLES 126 ALL-AMERICA AWARDS

2 was senior Alex Parker (Alpine) at the conclusion of her freshman campaign in Rombach has three top-five showings, while Hiemer has registered two top-five finishes, helping the Seawolves to rallies in the team standings multiple times... on the men s side, sophomore Lukas Ebner leads the UAA Nordic team with 315 points in the RMISA MVP points, while junior Andreas Adde paces the men s Alpine team with 301 points... Parker is 9th in the standings with 332 points to lead the UAA women s Alpine squad. ALASKA ANCHORAGE INVITE RECAP: The Seawolves finished 4th at the UAA Invite with 718 points... the women s Nordic team paced UAA, furnishing a combined 212 points in the classical and freestyle races... the Seawolves were led by senior Jaime Bronga (Anchorage) in both races, finishing fourth in each... the senior tandem of Steffi Hiemer and Laura Rombach helped Bronga, finishing no less than 9th in both races... the lone male to post a top-10 finish was junior All-American Andreas Adde in the giant slalom, while rookie Anais Urbain and Vanessa Berther were each in the top-10 in the GS. SEAWOLF INVITE RECAP: The Seawolves concluded their hosting duties with a fifth-place finish at the Seawolf Invitational, which was held Feb UAA posted 693 points, three points ahead of sixth-place Montana State (690)... leading UAA was the women s Nordic team in the classical race with 110 points... even without UAA s third racer, senior Steffi Hiemer, the Seawolves won the classical with a runner-up finish by senior Jaime Bronga and a fourth-place finish by senior Laura Rombach... posting a team-high 115 points ADDE ROMBACH EBNER at the invite was the women s Alpine squad in the giant slalom... freshman Anais Urbain earned her first podium finish in second, while senior All- American Alex Parker was 7th and freshman Vanessa Berther was 9th... sophomore Lukas Ebner added two 9th-place finishes as well. DENVER INVITE RECAP: Led by a dominating performance from its women s Nordic squad, the UAA ski team roared back to finish third place in the team standings on the fourth and final day of the Denver Invite (Jan. 21)... senior Jaime Bronga continued her impressive early season performance by winning the women s 10K freestyle race in 36: fellow senior Laura Romback was third and senior Steffi Hiemer finished fifth, giving the UAA women their second straight day with all three scorers in the top six... the UAA HIEMER Alpine team competed its portion of the Denver Invitational on Jan the Seawolves posted successful marks in the giant slalom with junior Andreas Adde leading the men and senior Alex Parker leading the women each finished sixth in their respective races... Parker led both the men and women in the slalom, finishing with a team-high 13th place... rookies Anais Urbain and Niko Harmanen also registered top-10 finishes in the PARKER GS. Sparky Anderson HEADCoach Anderson commences his first season as head coach in 2012 after serving as head Alpine coach for five years. Anderson has coached two NCAA Champions in Andreas Adde (slalom) in 2010 and Aurore de Maulmont (giant slalom) in Before UAA, Anderson worked as the program director for the Alyeska Ski Club in Girdwoood for seven years. Prior to coming to Alaska, he was the head ski coach at Brown University in Rhode Island from A 1991 graduate of the University of Nevada, Anderson earned four letters with the Wolf Pack, serving as team captain his senior season. In addition to his international experience, he holds USSA s highest level of coach s certification and currently serves as the Alaska Division s USSA coaches education clinician. Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association Nationally known as the strongest and most competitive conference in collegiate skiing, the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association is rich in tradition, history and success. The nine-member conference is comprised of Alaska Anchorage, Colorado, Denver, Montana State, New Mexico, and Utah, while Wyoming only competes in the Nordic races, and Colorado Mountain College and Westminster each field just a Alpine team. RMISA schools have claimed 15 of the last 16 NCAA titles. NCAA POWER RANKINGS Week 1 - Jan. 25, Colorado 4 Alaska Anchorage 5 Dartmouth Week 2 - Feb. 7, Colorado 4 Dartmouth 5 Denver Week 3- Feb. 15, Dartmouth 4 Colorado 5 Denver

3 2012 UAA SKI TEAM RESULTS ALPINE RESULTS NORDIC RESULTS Meet/Date Overall Points MGS MSL WGS WSL MCL MFR WCL WFR Alaska Nordic Cup 1st (2) Colorado Invite 3rd (9) Denver Invite 3rd (9) Alaska Anchorage Invite 4th (8) Seawolf Invite 5th (8) RMISA/NCAA West Region NCAA Championships MGS-Men s Giant Slalom; MSL-Men s Slalom; WGS-Women s Giant Slalom; WSL-Women s Slalom MCL-Men s Classical; MFR-Men s Freestyle; WCL-Women s Classical; WFR-Women s Freestyle INDIVIDUAL ALPINE RESULTS Meet RMISA Qualifier Colorado Invite Denver Invite UAA Invite Seawolf Invite RMISAs NCAAs Skier GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL Andreas Adde 6th 7th T-6th 6th DNF 6th 11th -- 25th Sean Alexander T-10th DNS 16th 25th 22nd 11th 23rd -- DNF C. Brewington 20th 29th 17th 28th 20th DNF 19th -- DNF Niko Harmanen 7th 6th 26th 10th 33rd 30th DNF -- 10th C.Kollenborg 19th 19th 21st 16th 24th DNF 12th -- 27th James Schindler DNC DNC DNC DNC DNC DNF DNS -- DNS Total Finishers WO Meet RMISA Qualifier Colorado Invite Denver Invite UAA Invite Seawolf Invite RMISAs NCAAs Skier GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL GS SL Anna Berecz 18th 23rd 17th 24th DNF 17th 12th 18th 25th Vanessa Berther 15th 20th DNF 11th DQ 9th DNF 9th DNF Ida Bjerka 27th 33rd 20th 28th 18th 30th 16th 26th 28th Taylor Guetschow 25th 29th DNF 31st 22nd 19th 15th 19th 27th Kayla Hoog-Fry DNF 34th 16th 21st 16th 21st DQ 20th 21st S.MacDonald DQ 25th 18th 20th 20th 23rd 17th 22nd 29th Alex Parker 12th 7th 10th 6th 13th DNF 8th 7th 23rd Anais Urbain 13th 21st 15th 8th DNF 4th DNF 2nd DNC Total Finishers GS-Giant Slalom; SL-Slalom DNF-did not finish; DNS-did not start, DQ-Disqualified INDIVIDUAL NORDIC RESULTS Meet AK Nordic Cup Colorado Invite Denver Invite UAA Invite Seawolf Invite RMISAs NCAAs Skier FR CL CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR Davis Dunlap 13th 11th DNS DNS DNS DNS 22nd 27th 24th 26th Lukas Ebner 1st 5th 14th 10th 18th 10th 8th 15th 9th 9th Galen Johnston DNS DNS 24th 28th 29th 20th 24th 22nd 25th 23rd Lutz Klausmann 14th 14th 27th 26th 33rd DNF 23rd 25th 23rd 24th Lasse Nielsen 6th 8th 7th 13th 4th 16th 27th 17th 11th 11th Max Trienen DNS DNS DNS DNS 24th 24th 29th 26th 27th 27th Nevio Zeni 10th 13th 17th 17th 19th 12th 18th 21st 19th 20th Total Finishers WO Meet AK Nordic Cup Colorado Invite Denver Invite UAA Invite Seawolf Invite RMISAs NCAAs Skier FR CL CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR CL FR Jaime Bronga 1st 1st 1st 2nd 4th 1st 4th 4th 2nd 3rd Steffi Hiemer 2nd 2nd 8th 14th 5th 5th 9th 8th DNS 14th Maya Radonich 7th 6th DNS DNS DNS DNS 29th 29th DNF DNS Laura Rombach 3rd 3rd 2nd 11th 6th 3rd 7th 9th 4th 12th Karina Smith DNS DNS 21st 25th 20th 26th 30th 27th 24th 28th Total Finishers CL-Classical; FR-Freestyle DNF-did not finish; DNS-did not start, DQ-Disqualified

4 2012 RMISA Regular Season Team Standings Through February 11, 2012 (4 of 5 regular season meets) Alpine Nordic Giant Slalom Slalom Freestyle Classical Rank School Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Total Points 1. Utah , Colorado , Denver , Alaska Anchorage , New Mexico , Montana State , Westminster , Wyoming Colorado Mountain College Men's Alpine Standings Women's Alpine Standings Combined Alpine Standings 1. Denver Utah New Mexico Colorado Westminster Alaska Anchorage Montana State Utah Colorado Denver New Mexico Alaska Anchorage Westminster Montana State Utah 1, Denver 1, Colorado 1, New Mexico 1, Westminster 1, Alaska Anchorage 1, Montana State 1,151

5 Men's Nordic Standings Women's Nordic Standings Combined Nordic Standings 1. Utah Colorado Montana State Denver Alaska Anchorage New Mexico Wyoming Alaska Anchorage Utah Colorado New Mexico Denver Montana State Wyoming Utah 1, Colorado 1, Montana State 1, Alaska Anchorage 1, Denver 1, New Mexico 1, Wyoming 423 Combined Men's Standings Combined Women's Standings 1. Utah 1, Colorado 1, Denver 1, Montana State 1, New Mexico 1, Alaska Anchorage 1, Westminster Wyoming Utah 1, Colorado 1, Alaska Anchorage 1, New Mexico 1, Denver 1, Montana State 1, Westminster Wyoming Colorado Mountain College 0