BOULDER—The Colorado Buffaloes Ski Team is sending 14 skiers to the 2023 Winter World University Games, an Olympics-like event for college athletes around the world.
Hosted at Lake Placid and in the United States for the first time since 1972, the games will feature more than 2,500 athletes from 50 countries and more than 600 college and universities competing in 12 sports and 86 events. Normally hosted every two years, this is the first event since 2019 in Russia as the 2021 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Of the 14 Buffs, seven are alpine and seven Nordic, with four men's alpine, three women's alpine, five men's Nordic and two women's Nordic.