The University of Colorado will be the host school for the 57^th Annual NCAA Men's and Women's Skiing Championships from March 10-13, 2010. Alpine events will take place at Mt. Werner & Howelsen Hill, while the Nordic events will be held at Howelsen Hill. Middlebury will send five alpine racers and a pair of nordic competitors to the event.

Five members of the Middlebury College Indoor Track Teams will take part in the 2010 NCAA Championships on March 12^th & 13^th. The event is taking place at the James A. Hollensteiner Track on the campus of DePauw University in Indiana. First-year athlete Juliet Ryan-Davies will compete in the 800, while senior Anjuli Demers, junior Kaitlyn Saldanha and sophomores Rebecca Fanning and Margo Cramer (Seattle, Wash.) will race in the DMR.

The Middlebury men's hockey team will make its 14th NCAA Tournament appearance when they host Plattsburgh on Saturday, March 13th in a quarterfinal match-up at 7:00 p.m. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, March 9th at the McCullough/Mahaney box offices (802-443-6433), and are priced at $7 for adults and $4 for students. Tickets can also be purchased at: http://boxoffice.middlebury.edu/index.php. Plattsburgh fans will have plenty of tickets for sale on their campus. Please see: http://www.plattsburgh.edu/athletics/ for more information.

Middlebury College men's hockey player Charlie Townsend (Pennington, N.J.) has been named the NESCAC Player of the Week. Townsend broke a 2-2 tie on Sunday during the final of the 2010 NESCAC Men's Ice Hockey Championship by scoring the game-winner with just 1:42 remaining to lift the Panthers to a 3-2 victory over Bowdoin.

The Panther indoor track teams sent athletes to the ECAC Championships at Smith College over the weekend. Winning the ECAC Championship was the women's DMR team, who finished with a time of 11:59.40, setting a new school record.