History
The NCAA approved its first national collegiate skiing championship as a trial meet in March of 1954. The trial was successful, and the championship became a permanent annual event in 1955.
Originally, all of the Olympic skiing events were on the collegiate program, but the downhill was eliminated in 1976 and ski jumping in 1981. The Alpine combined, Nordic combined, and skimeister titles have also been eliminated. (The skimeister championship went to the skiier with the best scoring totals in both Nordic and Alpine events.)
Women's skiing was added in 1983. While women compete against one another in their own events, there is a single team championship, as in fencing, based on combined men's and women's results.