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Ski Team Plans Intercollegiate Race

Charlottesville's newest exciting
undergraduate diversion, the University
Ski Team, is currently planning
the first intercollegiate ski race
ever held in Virginia. The first
University of Virginia Invitational
Giant Slalom, hopefully to become
an annual event, will be held at the
Homestead Ski Area on Sunday,
March 2.

Team officers Rich Tremaine
and Charles Ribakoff have invited
most of the major colleges in
Virginia. Those invited include
VMI, VPI, Washington and Lee,
William and Mary, VCU, Sweet
Briar, Hollins, Mary Baldwin, Mary
Washington, and Madison. So far
there have been no responses, but
officials of the team, not easily
discouraged, remain hopeful that
between 80 and 100 skiers will
compete.

After the race award ceremonies
of unprecedented proportions are
anticipated as the team presents the
two splendiferous Jubilation T.
Cornpone Memorial Trophies to the
top mens' and women' teams. Gold,
silver, and bronze medals will also
be awarded to the top three finishers
in each class. The trophies will
be on permanent display in the
Homestead Lodge and promise to
become a well-known tourist attraction.

Television and press coverage is
planned, and the team hopes that
the publicity from this race will
encourage other state colleges to
form teams.

The ski team hopes to continue
its phenomenal winning streak
which started when team members
Dick Moore and Rich Tremaine,
wearing the impenetrable disguise
of the Monticello Ski Club, finished
first and second in a race for state
clubs for the coveted Kober Cup.
The team presently has some fifteen
members with and without
experience, enthusiasm, and cars.
The only known collegiate ski team
in Virginia with the best record of
any University team plans to continue
this record when the season
starts.