Field: The field size is 148 (74 men and 74 women) skiers.

Dates and sites: The championships will be conducted March 8-11. Alpine events will be held at Park City Mountain Resort. Nordic events will be held at Soldier Hollow. The University of Utah will serve as host for all events.

Information/results: The fax-on-demand telephone number is 770/563-1133 (pin code 1915). The request numbers are 5139 for day one results, 5140 for day two results, 5141 for day three results and 5142 for day four results. Championships results also will appear in the March 27 issue of The NCAA News.

Championships notes: Five of six of last year's champions return. Two-time defending champion Colorado and Denver, last year's runner-up, return two champions. Denver gained another when David Viele, the two-time men's giant slalom champion while a Dartmouth undergraduate, enrolled in graduate school there. Utah and Vermont also challenge for team honors. Colorado returnees include Aimee-Noel Hartley, last year's women's giant slalom champion, and Linda Wikstrom, defending women's slalom champion. Denver also features 1999 men's giant slalom winner Jayme Smithers and Britta Wienand, the defending women's classical cross country champion. Vermont's women's Nordic team looks strong -- last year's freestyle cross country winner, Ekaterina Ivanova returns but teammate Tessa Benoir has outdueled her to win the freestyle event in both of the early Eastern Carnivals. Vermont's Brandon Dyksterhouse, 1997 champion in the men's giant slalom, also returns.