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NCAA Ski Championships Cancelled After Freestyle Races

BOZEMAN, Mont. –Junior Sondre Bollum and freshman Magnus Boee both finished in the top 10 in the men's 10K freestyle race for the Colorado Ski Team, which concluded about 45 minutes before the NCAA issued a statement canceling all winter and spring national championships.

"Today, NCAA President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors canceled the Division I men's and women's 2020 basketball tournaments, as well as all remaining winter and spring NCAA Championships," the statement read. "This decision is based on the evolving COVID-19 public health threat, our ability to ensure the events do not contribute to the spread of the pandemic, and the impracticality of hosting such events at any time during this academic year given ongoing decisions by other entities.