Hanover — The last time the NCAA Skiing Championships took place in the state of New Hampshire, Dartmouth won the national title. Ten years later, the Big Green has its sights set on another crown.

Dartmouth enters this year’s national championship, hosted by the University of New Hampshire at Franconia and Jackson, N.H., having won five of the six Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Association carnivals, including the East Regional two weeks ago for the first time in five years.

The championships will begin today at Cannon Mountain with the giant slalom as the women start at 11 a.m. and the men at 2:30 p.m.

As one of the seven schools with a full complement of 12 skiers participating, Dartmouth is poised to make a run for its fourth national title. Other schools to feature a complete dozen are Alaska Anchorage, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont and the defending champion, Denver.

Since the Big Green last won the championship, Colorado and Denver have dominated as the two schools have combined to win eight of the last nine years with each earning four. Only Vermont has been able to break that stranglehold. Other than Dartmouth’s crown in 2007 and the Catamounts’ in 2012, no other team from the East has won the title in the past 22 years.

The Big Green is loaded with experience in the alpine events, with five of its six skiers competing having competed in last year’s NCAA Championships, all of whom earned All-America honors in one of the events. All three Dartmouth women represented the program last year, led by junior Foreste Peterson, who was a first-team All-American in the giant slalom last year by finishing fifth. This year she is the second-ranked skier in the East with three carnival victories.

Both sophomore Alexa Dlouhy and junior Kelly Moore earned second-team All-America honors a year ago in the slalom by placing seventh and eighth, respectively.

The men’s alpine team boasts the top-rated skier in the East in junior Brian McLaughlin, who won four races and claimed second in two others a year after taking third at the NCAAs in the slalom. McLaughlin has plenty of talented support with veteran senior Thomas Woolson and Swiss rookie Tanguy Nef.

In the Nordic events, the Big Green skiers don’t necessarily have the same kind of pedigrees as their alpine comrades, but were just as successful this winter. Leading the group is senior Fabian Stocek , the top-ranked men’s cross country skier in both the freestyle and classical disciplines. Stocek racked up eight victories, with only one finish outside of the top four. This will be his third trip to the NCAA Championships.

The other Nordic skier with championship experience is junior Callan DeLine, who finished in the top 15 of both NCAA races last year in Colorado.

Youth is the name of the game on the women’s side with a sophomore and two freshmen representing Dartmouth, and all three are ranked among the top five in the East. Freshman Abby Drach, ranked second, came on strong with four top-two finishes in the last three carnivals; sophomore Lydia Blanchet enjoyed three podiums and is ranked third, but just returned to racing at the regional after missing two weeks; and freshman Lauren Jortberg is ranked fifth with five podiums and two victories to her credit.

Following today’s giant slalom, the Nordic action begins on Thursday at Jackson Ski Touring Center with the classic races starting at 10 a.m. The slalom will be run on Friday back at Cannon Mountain beginning with the men’s first run at 9 a.m., and the final day of competition will be back on the trails at Jackson with the freestyle mass start kicking off at 10 a.m.