ULM took home the Division 1 national team title for the second year in a row and the the 24th time since starting  in 1979.

“Nine months of work just paid off,” said team captain Will Oliver. “This year we skied out of our socks and absolutely smashed it.”

ULM came in as the South Central Regional Champions. Individual medals were awarded for slalom, tricks and jumping and overall titles were awarded to athletes competing in all three events.

Division 1 teams included: Louisiana-Monroe, Florida Southern, Wisconsin-La Crosse, Arizona State, Louisiana-Lafayette, Alabama, Rollins, Purdue, Miami (Ohio), Kansas, Cincinnati and Iowa State.

On Thursday, Florida Southern’s K.C. Wilson beat out Louisiana-Lafayette’s Benjamin Stadlbaur for first place in men’s Slalam by one and a half buoys.

Arizona State’s Stephen Neveu finished in third and ULMs’ Martin Kolman, Adam Pickos and Tyler Scott finished respectively in fourth, fifth and sixth place. ULM’s Nikita Papakul tied for seventh with ASU’s Alec Richardson. Alabama’s Caroline Hensley won the Division 1 women’s slalom title for the second year in a row as ULM’s Makayla Haw finished third.

On Friday, ULM’s Adam Pickos won the men’s tricks title, Kolman finished second, Lorenzo Dalber tied Papakul for third and Siarhei Bushyn finished fifth.

Florida Southern’s Lauren Morgan won Division 1 women’s jumping with a distance of 145 feet for the second consecutive year and Haw finished fourth. The Warhawks finished the Women A Team Jump in second behind ULL.

“The girls didn’t do well in slalom,” Benjamin said. “But we knew that was our weakest event so we took that into consideration.”

Coming into Saturday the Warhawks led the team standings in women’s tricks and men’s jumping and held a 290 point lead in combined team results.

ULL men’s A team trailed the Warhawks by 385 points after Slalom and trick competitions. ULM’s women A team trailed in combined points behind UFS and ULL respectively.

On Saturday, ULM’s womens trick  team won and put the Warhawks ahead by 760 points. Janice Stevens placed second.

“I’m so psyched because I didn’t expect to place so well,” said Stevens. “I’m so glad women’s trick was able to put the team ahead.”

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ULM’s Kolman took home first place in the men’s jump competition, followed by Bushyn in the second and Jake Bridges in fourth.