The city of Steamboat Springs, Steamboat Resort and the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club are partnering with the University of Colorado Boulder to host the 2024 NCAA Ski Championships March 6-9 on the slopes of Steamboat.

This year’s NCAA Championships consist of eight races with both men’s and women’s Nordic and Alpine teams combining to race for the ultimate goal of a National Championship. The event begins March 5, with an opening ceremony at the base of Mt. Werner, with racing starting March 6 at Mt. Werner via men’s and women’s giant slalom races.

Across the valley at Howelsen Hill, 7.5K interval start freestyle races take place on March 7. Friday’s alpine action remains at Howelsen Hill with a night slalom, a staple of the event in Steamboat, and the only night race in all of college skiing. Saturday’s 20K mass start classic races will close out the event.

“Steamboat Springs has always been a great partner of ours,” CU Director of Skiing Jana Weinberger said in a news release. “The city, the resort and the winter sports club are all great to work with, whether we just host our annual Nordic meet, our Regional meet with both alpine and Nordic or, like this season, the NCAA Championships. The support of the community in Steamboat Springs is second to none and ensures that we put together one of the best championships of any site in the country.”

This will be the ninth time Steamboat Springs has played host to the NCAA Ski Championships — the most of any one site in the country. This event breaks a tie with Bozeman, Montana, for that distinction. This is also the 10th time CU has served as the host of the Championships, the most by any school.

Previously, the Buffaloes and Steamboat teamed up to host the event six times in 1979, 1993, 2006, 2010, 2016 and 2018. Steamboat also hosted without a school partner in 1968 and 1969.

CU will also host its Spencer James Nelson Memorial Invitational at Steamboat this season, a run-through for the NCAA Championships, held Feb. 1-3. CU normally hosts its Nordic meet at Steamboat and, when hosting NCAAs, also attempts to host alpine races earlier that season, as well.