The Colby men's Nordic squad will have a full team (three skiers) for the first time in program history. Nick Kline (Cape Elizabeth, Maine), Wyatt Fereday (Boise, Idaho), and Silas Gill (Jackson, N.H.) will race for Nordic head coach Tracey Cote, the two-time Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) Coach of the Year.

Vincent Lebrun-Fortin (Montreal, Quebec) and Josh Kernan (Shelburne, N.H.) will race for the Colby men's alpine team, while Dana Breakstone (Sparta, N.J.) represents the Colby women for head coach Danny Noyes.

The Nordic men will race at 12:30 p.m. (EST) on Wednesday in the 10-kilometer freestyle event. The team races again Friday at 11 a.m. in the 20-kilometer classical. For results and more information, go to the Montana State web site at http://www.msubobcats.com/ski_ncaa2.php

Kline and Fereday both earned All-East second team honors this season. Kline, Colby's senior captain, will ski at the NCAA meet for the second straight year. Gill is racing at the national meet for the first time.

Lebrun-Fortin, who should challenge in the slalom in his first NCAA meet, earned EISA All-East first team honors and was named EISA Male Rookie of the Year. Lebrun-Fortin had a banner first year at Colby with a win in the slalom at the Williams Ski Carnival. He also has seconds in the slalom at the Eastern Championships and Vermont.

Kernan raced at the NCAA meet a year ago, while Breakstone made the meet for the first time.

The men's giant slalom at Bridger Bowl is Thursday at 11:30 a.m. (EST) and the women follow at 3 p.m. The slalom concludes the four days of skiing, with the women going at 11:30 a.m. and the men at 3 p.m. on Saturday.