WATERVILLE, Maine --- The Colby College ski teams will be well represented when the NCAA Skiing Championships  go from March 11-14 at Sunday River in Bethel, Maine.

Lucy Garrec (Freeport, Maine) and Kathleen Maynard (Jackson, N.H.) will ski for the Colby women’s Nordic team. Meanwhile, Emily Colin (Santa Fe, N.M.) used a big two days of skiing at Sugarloaf this past weekend to get into the NCAA meet for the Colby women’s alpine squad. Vincent Lebrun-Fortin (Montreal, Quebec) and Josh Kernan (Shelburne, N.H.) will both ski again at nationals for the men’s alpine team.

Garrec has been the most decorated skier of this season for any of the Colby ski teams. The first-year skier has six top-three performances, including the Nordic program’s first-ever ski carnival victory. Garrec is ranked fourth of NCAA qualifiers among EISA skiers after finishing fourth in points in free technique and fifth in classical racing.

Maynard and Garrec are the first Colby women’s Nordic skiers heading to the NCAA meet since Jenny Lane Townsend went in 1998. After sending three men to the NCAA meet a year ago, head coach Tracey Cote will have two women going for the first time. Maynard, a senior, was 13^th overall during the season and was 14^th in free technique and 15^th in classical.

Colin had a flair for the dramatic by finishing seventh and 10^th this weekend in competition at the Colby Ski Carnival/Eastern Championships at Sugarloaf. Colby head coach Danny Noyes said that Colin likely needed at least one top 10 finish before the competition, but Colin delivered two in making the NCAA meet for the first time. The junior was 17^th combined this year among EISA skiers, finishing 17^th among giant slalom skiers and 18^th in the slalom.

Lebrun-Fortin, an All-American in the slalom and giant slalom at the NCAA meet last year, was 11^th combined and ninth among NCAA qualifiers from the EISA. He was sixth this season in the slalom and 14^th in the giant slalom. Lebrun-Fortin was an All-East selection and the EISA Rookie of the Year last season.

Kernan heads back to the NCAA meet for the third straight year after being the seventh NCAA qualifier. He also was seventh combined in taking fifth in the slalom and 12^th in the giant slalom among league skiers.