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2006
U.S. Ski Team Athlete Bios |
| STACEY COOK
B Team
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| Ussa Id: 5189295 |
Height: 5'4'' ft/
1.6 m |
Weight: 145 lb/
66 kg |
| Birthdate: 7/3/84 |
Birthplace: Truckee, CA |
Hometown: Truckee, CA |
| Years on Team: 2nd |
School: Nevada (Reno) |
Sponsors: Sun Valley Ski Tools |
| Equipment: Rossignol, Scott |
Club: Mammoth Mountain Ski Team |
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| Highlights |
- Won both NorAm super Gs at Lake Louise in '05
- 2004 NorAm overall/DH champion (four DH wins)
- Won both NorAm DHs in Big Mountain, Lake Louise
- Won '03 NorAm DH (Lake Louise)
- 2nd in '03 NorAm SG (Lake Louise)
- Third in '03 NorAm both DH/SG points
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| Biography |
Lake Tahoe's Stacey Cook enjoyed skiing as a kid but she really got jazzed about it when she joined Northstar's "real" racing program - and won her first race. She added downhill in 2003, winning a NorAm DH, and won the NorAm overall and DH titles in '04. She's been knocking at the door of World Cup success.
Update
Fourteen-hundredths of a second. That's all that stood between Cook and her first World Cup points last season (.06 in DH1 and.08 in DH2 in Lake Louise); in '04, just .07 kept her out of the points in Haus, Austria. "Stacey's learning. She knows she's close - and she's ready for a big breakthrough," said Coach Alex Hoedlmoser. After the near-misses in World Cup downhills at Lake Louise, Cook stuck around and won both of the ensuing NorAm super Gs. She suffered a concussion and injured her right elbow in a January crash, sidelining her for parts of the second half of the season "so I used it more as an experience-gaining year," she reasoned.
Start-Up
Cook started skiing at 4 with her father at various Lake Tahoe ski centers and raced in the low-key Buddy Werner League events run by Truckee’s rec department. “When I was about 10, I got a scholarship to the Northstar [racing] program and I won the first race. That’s when I got serious,” she said. She added downhill in Winter ’02. “The NorAm win was great. I like speed; I like the training runs...like getting to ski on the course more than once.”
First World Cup
Jan. 30, 2004, downhill in Haus, AUT (41st)
Personal
“Cookie”...Deferred to CU...Played on Truckee’s ’01 state champion high school soccer team...She races with a lucky necklace that contains her grandmother’s birthstone...Dad’s a contractor, Mom’s his office manager and Cook has one older and one younger brother... She enjoys Tahoe’s standard array of outdoor activities – camping, hunting ducks, fishing, water skiing, mountain biking and used to do gymnastics and tae kwan do...Soundbite: “I’m still pretty inexperienced, especially in downhill, so I try to learn something from every race”...She knits, too – mostly hats and scarves plus an occasional pair of mittens... Loves country music, Mexican food and anything cooked by mom Sharon
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