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Daigle wins second run, leads Knights to 4th in men's Slalom at USCSA Nationals

Posted 3/16/19

Jackson, WY – Sophomore Thomas Daigle torched the field in his second run for the Clarkson University Alpine Ski team, as the Golden Knights took fourth in the slalom on Friday at the USCSA …

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Daigle wins second run, leads Knights to 4th in men's Slalom at USCSA Nationals

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Jackson, WY – Sophomore Thomas Daigle torched the field in his second run for the Clarkson University Alpine Ski team, as the Golden Knights took fourth in the slalom on Friday at the USCSA Nationals held at Snow King Mountain Resort.

The Golden Knights finished fifth in the giant slalom on Wednesday before edging up one spot in the slalom. Clarkson's team time of 5:00.77 trailed Sierra Nevada College (4:54.01), Castleton (4:57.87) and Rocky Mountain College (4:58.06) and was nearly a second faster than Babson College (5:01.74).

Daigle was just 29th in his first run with a time of 53.60 seconds, but he cruised to a first place finish in his second run with a time of 45.51 seconds, more than two seconds faster than of the other competitors. His two-run time of 1:39.11 was good enough for sixth overall among 125 participants. Just outside the top 10 were juniors Nick Lacasse and Andrew Yoviene. The former skier finished in 1:40.79 to take 11th overall and the latter was in the next spot in 1:40.87. Senior Colden Mrak ended up in a tie for 26th with a two-run time of 1:43.87 and Tyler Brown came in 33rd overall in 1:47.37.

The five-day competition ends on Saturday when all of the programs compete in the Dual Panel Slalom.