Alpine nationals: Cochran, Stiegler win slalom titles

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Jimmy Cochran, returning to the venue where he won two gold medals three years ago, collected his third U.S. title on Sunday as he won the men's slalom at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships. Ted Ligety was second while Bode Miller finished third.
    For the women, Jackson Hole's Resi Stiegler captured the first national title of her career, overtaking first-run leader Sterling Grant. Grant, of Minnesota's famed Buck Hill program, finished second and Hailey Duke finished third.


ALYESKA RESORT, Alaska — Jimmy Cochran, returning to the venue where he won two gold medals three years ago, collected his third U.S. title on Sunday as he won the men's slalom at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships. Ted Ligety was second while Bode Miller finished third.
    For the women, Jackson Hole's Resi Stiegler captured the first national title of her career, overtaking first-run leader Sterling Grant. Grant, of Minnesota's famed Buck Hill program, finished second and Hailey Duke finished third.
    "I’ve been working on this one for, like, five years. I’ve been second and third and first after probably every nationals slalom first run and this time I put one down and finally finished so I’m happy," Stiegler said. 
    Cochran and Ligety were tied at the top after the first run, with junior Will Brandenburg third. Miller stood in seventh place, jumping all the way up from the No. 43 start position.
    Skiing last in the reverse top 30 order, Ligety — the two-time defending U.S. slalom champion — couldn't catch Cochran, who clocked the second-fastest time of the second run behind Miller. Cochran finished with a two-run combined effort of 1 minute, 45.72 seconds. Ligety timed 1:46.04 and Miller recorded his second podium of the week after winning Saturday's super G with a bronze-medal effort of 1:47.15.
    "Jimmy’s a great tactician," Miller said of Cochran. "He skis the furthest from the gates so he has less chance of the gates hitting down on his skis. He doesn’t really take a lot of risk so it was a perfect course for him."
    Ligety, disappointed with not defendig his title, did ski away with a consolation prize of sorts with the men's combined award, given to the racer with the lowest aggregate time from the downhill and slalom races. Ligety won with a combined total of 211.74 seconds, with T.J. Lanning second (212.54) and Cochran third (212.74). Kaylin Richardson, the downhill national champion and 10th-place finisher in the slalom — won the women's combined award with 206.42 points. Stiegler was second (207.38) and Caitlin Ciccone third (208.06).
    "I definitely made a lot of mistakes. I was t-boning the ruts the whole way down," Ligety said. "I was having trouble just getting the rhythm of it because I wanted to take a straighter line than the rut already established. Jimmy’s always been pretty good at taking the wider line in those type of ruts. I saw those ruts as his race already, especially with how well he did here last time."
    Men's head coach Phil McNichol said Cochran — who struggled with what he called an "up-and-down season" on the World Cup this season — nailed the bottom section of the course his second time down. Cochran's first run included some of the best slalom skiing McNichol said he'd seen in a while from the 25-year-old.  
    “It was really clean, really fast," McNichol said. "Ted also skied one of his better runs first run. Seeing those two guys tie up, it was exciting, and Bode having a good first run coming in, we were poised for an exciting race. That’s what we got to see on that second run.
    “Jimmy was maybe a little bit off at the top, but really skied at the bottom, so that was cool. He won the race at the bottom, which is always exciting when you have that kind of culmination."


2007 Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships women's slalom results 

PL  ST   CODE  COMPETITOR----------------- NAT     TIME    TIME   TOTAL    RACE
Nr SURNAME+NAME 1stRUN 2ndRUN TIME POINTS

1 5 537772 STIEGLER, Resi USA 47.93 47.88 1'35.81 0.00
2 6 538256 GRANT, Sterling USA 47.86 48.10 1'35.96 0.96
3 2 537792 DUKE, Hailey USA 48.02 48.38 1'36.40 3.76
4 14 537848 CICCONE, Caitlin USA 48.53 48.19 1'36.72 5.79
5 15 537230 KELLEY, Jessica C USA 48.66 48.36 1'37.02 7.70
6 3 537545 MANCUSO, Julia USA 48.78 48.25 1'37.03 7.77
7 23 55725 KLOCKER, Stefanie AUT 49.00 48.70 1'37.70 12.03
8 7 537768 HITCHCOCK, Katie USA 49.05 48.91 1'37.96 13.69
9 13 537360 LATHROP, Jenny USA 49.61 48.36 1'37.97 13.75
10 1 537626 RICHARDSON, Kaylin L USA 48.52 49.56 1'38.08 14.45
11 10 106668 RYLEY, Megan CAN 49.32 48.88 1'38.20 15.22
12 4 535585 STAPLES, Kiley USA 49.24 48.97 1'38.21 15.28
13 20 538348 WOODWORTH, Natasha USA 49.08 49.15 1'38.23 15.41
14 22 538258 HAMMOND, Courtney USA 48.89 49.36 1'38.25 15.53
15 16 538041 MCDONALD, Jilyne USA 49.18 49.12 1'38.30 15.85
16 18 537565 KELLEHER, Keely Blair USA 50.27 48.22 1'38.49 17.06
17 9 155409 ZIKOVA, Lucie CZE 49.42 49.37 1'38.79 18.97
18 24 536878 KINGSBURY, Jamie USA 50.23 48.67 1'38.90 19.67
19 39 537582 COOK, Stacey J USA 50.90 48.18 1'39.08 20.82
20 21 538038 MARSHALL, Chelsea USA 50.15 49.08 1'39.23 21.77
21 12 705349 GANTNEROVA, Jana SVK 50.19 49.05 1'39.24 21.84
22 27 538470 CONE, Lindsay USA 49.91 49.60 1'39.51 23.56
23 25 538270 JANOWIAK, Lyndee USA 50.34 49.18 1'39.52 23.62
24 17 538284 MCJAMES, Megan USA 49.85 49.68 1'39.53 23.68
25 26 537672 LITTMAN, Julia USA 50.35 49.62 1'39.97 26.49
26 37 705304 GANTNEROVA, Petra SVK 50.99 49.08 1'40.07 27.12
27 8 537987 CARTER, Laurel USA 49.47 50.76 1'40.23 28.14
28 45 538855 FORD, Julia USA 51.28 49.67 1'40.95 32.73
29 34 538289 PARK, Bryana USA 50.79 50.30 1'41.09 33.62
30 32 355034 SCHAEDLER, Sarah LIE 51.09 50.02 1'41.11 33.74
31 36 537904 SHIELDS, Michelanne USA 51.10 50.78 1'41.88 38.65
32 28 537359 LATHROP, Abbi B USA 51.26 51.09 1'42.35 41.64
33 38 535614 VANWAGNER, Jennifer USA 51.60 50.95 1'42.55 42.91
34 44 535629 WILLIAMS, Kate USA 51.50 52.25 1'43.75 50.55
35 46 538011 GOYNE, Amanda USA 52.23 51.64 1'43.87 51.32
36 43 538486 EDER, Lauren USA 52.62 51.66 1'44.28 53.93
37 35 535019 ALLEN, Jennifer E USA 51.98 52.32 1'44.30 54.05
38 61 538463 CAMETTI, Hannah USA 52.57 52.44 1'45.01 58.57
39 70 537756 SAUGSTAD, Lacy USA 53.16 51.87 1'45.03 58.70
40 51 225428 FAIRWEATHER, Sega GBR 52.75 52.40 1'45.15 59.47
41 52 106545 EMPEY, Allison CAN 53.42 51.85 1'45.27 60.23
42 31 538438 WONG, Julia T USA 52.54 52.84 1'45.38 60.93
43 53 538881 HOSTETTER, Mary Rachel USA 53.33 52.22 1'45.55 62.01
44 66 538611 WETTLAUFER, Georgia USA 52.84 53.57 1'46.41 67.49
45 71 539096 BYERS, Felicia USA 53.84 52.76 1'46.60 68.70
46 68 535473 LONZA, Geordie USA 53.50 53.14 1'46.64 68.95
47 54 538711 GILL, Melissa USA 53.81 53.83 1'47.64 75.32
48 57 538549 MCNEILL, Kristen USA 54.28 53.74 1'48.02 77.74
49 76 538320 WILLSON, Courtney USA 54.93 53.35 1'48.28 79.39
50 65 538685 MCKENNIS, Alice USA 54.73 54.79 1'49.52 87.29
51 69 538532 LINDAU, Ashley USA 55.24 54.55 1'49.79 89.01
52 67 538318 WEST, Ann USA 54.67 55.15 1'49.82 89.20
53 19 538305 SMITH, Leanne USA 51.69 59.94 1'51.63 100.72
54 41 538471 COOPER, Kirsten A USA 1'03.07 52.11 1'55.18 123.32
55 42 537651 LYNCH, Chelsea USA 51.95 1'03.90 1'55.85 127.59
56 40 538323 JONES, Hayley USA 1'04.14 53.62 1'57.76 139.75
57 33 537727 PERRICONE, Lisa USA 50.86 1'07.31 1'58.17 142.36
58 75 539080 ACKERMAN, Delainey USA 58.65 1'00.36 1'59.01 147.71

DID NOT START 1st RUN
64 538325 VICTORY, Hannah USA
47 538513 HARRIS, Amy USA

DID NOT FINISH 1st RUN
74 535424 GOVAN, Danielle USA
72 538681 DUNLEAVY, Katherine USA
62 537988 CARTMILL, Alyssa USA
58 538496 GHENT, Erika USA
56 538491 FLETCHER, Erin USA
55 539009 LEGGETT, Kristin USA
50 535510 NOVA, Chelsea USA
49 105261 DURHAM, Ashley-Kate CAN
11 106633 GOODMAN, Anna CAN

DISQUALIFIED 1st RUN
48 465046 MUNTEANU, Smaranda ROU GATE 50
29 538264 HILLENBRAND, Heidi USA GATE 54

DID NOT START 2nd RUN

DID NOT FINISH 2nd RUN
73 535405 EVERS, Kirsten USA
63 538644 DVORAK, Nicole USA
60 538737 HAWMAN, April USA
59 538856 FRY, Kayla USA
30 538514 HARTMAN, Katie USA

2007 Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships men's slalom results 

PL ST CODE COMPETITOR----------------- NAT TIME TIME TOTAL RACE
Nr SURNAME+NAME 1stRUN 2ndRUN TIME POINTS

1 1 534040 COCHRAN, Jimmy USA 51.91 53.81 1'45.72 0.00
2 2 534562 LIGETY, Ted USA 51.91 54.13 1'46.04 1.85
3 43 532431 MILLER, Bode USA 53.39 53.76 1'47.15 8.25
4 5 534748 MCDONALD, Paul USA 53.09 54.16 1'47.25 8.83
5 12 534508 CHODOUNSKY, David USA 53.08 54.25 1'47.33 9.29
6 17 534567 LANNING, Thomas (tj) USA 53.75 53.62 1'47.37 9.52
7 9 534959 JITLOFF, Tim USA 52.73 54.93 1'47.66 11.19
8 23 533866 NYMAN, Steven USA 53.68 54.72 1'48.40 15.46
9 13 533833 HEINRICH-WALLACE, Mark USA 54.05 54.72 1'48.77 17.60
10 16 530828 HUGHES, Stefan USA 55.64 53.93 1'49.57 22.21
11 25 534289 FRANK, Chris USA 54.98 54.73 1'49.71 23.02
12 39 934502 ANKENY, Michael USA 54.97 55.42 1'50.39 26.95
13 20 533903 BROWN, Ben USA 55.69 55.07 1'50.76 29.08
14 37 532554 PHILLIPS, Andrew USA 56.18 54.75 1'50.93 30.06
15 29 534965 KUNG, Kyle USA 56.77 54.30 1'51.07 30.87
16 22 533931 EPSTEIN, Paul USA 55.30 55.86 1'51.16 31.39
17 31 530214 FORD, William USA 55.23 56.38 1'51.61 33.99
18 34 530264 MANTER, Benjamin USA 56.88 55.45 1'52.33 38.14
19 30 530645 HARRIS, Martin USA 55.33 57.44 1'52.77 40.68
20 11 534991 ROBERTS, Drew USA 57.53 55.60 1'53.13 42.76
21 58 930107 GREGORAK, Will USA 56.93 56.21 1'53.14 42.81
22 50 531178 WEIBRECHT, Ethan USA 56.93 56.25 1'53.18 43.04
23 4 530837 KELLEY, Tim USA 58.40 55.19 1'53.59 45.41
24 40 930105 GRANSTROM, Colby USA 57.21 56.63 1'53.84 46.85
25 53 201615 MEIER-MEITINGER, Maximilian GER 57.18 56.87 1'54.05 48.06
26 38 534534 VEENIS, Scott R USA 55.95 58.34 1'54.29 49.45
27 62 530141 WOLOSYN, Ryan USA 57.25 57.46 1'54.71 51.87
28 51 530149 ANDERSEN, Eric H USA 57.71 57.59 1'55.30 55.28
29 79 530788 CRONK, Andrew Aj USA 57.98 57.61 1'55.59 56.95
30 61 421482 HVERVEN, Jonathan NOR 57.98 58.03 1'56.01 59.37
31 64 534901 ASOIAN, Nathan P USA 58.61 59.13 1'57.74 69.35
32 56 530717 BRAUN, Jake USA 59.97 58.94 1'58.91 76.11
33 46 530768 CONWAY, Patrick USA 1'00.55 59.76 2'00.31 84.18
34 78 534933 DONOVAN, Ryan USA 59.81 1'01.89 2'01.70 92.20
35 59 530877 POEHLING, Bobby USA 1'02.74 59.06 2'01.80 92.78
36 65 531042 MCCONNELL, Cory USA 58.56 1'05.86 2'04.42 107.90
37 52 532165 LEAFE, Trevor USA 59.48 1'05.41 2'04.89 110.61
38 66 531134 SCHWARTZ, Zachary USA 58.39 1'06.92 2'05.31 113.03
39 72 930024 MAPLE, Wiley USA 59.23 1'06.32 2'05.55 114.42

DID NOT START 1st RUN
69 530265 MIKOS, Mark USA

DID NOT FINISH 1st RUN
80 531161 TRANSUE, Jon USA
77 530751 BARTELS, Greg USA
76 530731 CASTON, Marcus USA
73 530283 REEVES, Alex USA
71 934518 DANIELS, Nick USA
63 531177 WEHAN, Bryce USA
60 930163 KEMP, John USA
57 531073 MORGAN, Brian USA
55 530841 KERR, Errol USA
54 531145 SPENST, Taggart USA
48 530259 LOVE, John USA
47 531452 BIESEMEYER, Thomas USA
45 530644 HAMMER, Maximilian USA
DID NOT FINISH 1st RUN

41 530780 DAVIS, Eric USA
36 530778 COLLINS, Shane USA
35 530651 STIEGLER, Seppi USA
32 532138 KASPER, Nolan USA
28 531799 FORD, Tommy USA
27 534165 JOHNSON, Erik USA
26 530262 LUND, Jacob USA
24 534939 FISHER, Erik USA
21 534552 MCDONALD, Will USA
18 530874 GANONG, Travis USA
14 534532 WEISS, Evan C USA
6 533739 MARSHALL, Cody B USA

DISQUALIFIED 1st RUN
49 534899 MCKAY, Dan USA GATE 19

DID NOT START 2nd RUN

DID NOT FINISH 2nd RUN
83 50760 NEUHAUSER, Reinhard AUT
82 291876 SALMINI, Carlo ITA
81 930023 COFFEY, Sam USA
74 532270 MCLAUGHRY, Luke USA
70 530925 HELDMAN, Bump USA
68 930205 NELSON, Joey USA
67 534702 CASEY, Rory USA
44 534740 COOKE, Miles USA
42 530244 JOHNSON, Austin USA
33 530229 HEISE, Rusty USA
19 531302 WAGNER, Andrew USA
10 531181 THORSON, Tague USA
7 534038 NICKERSON, Warner C USA

DISQUALIFIED 2nd RUN
75 533479 WOODS, Tim USA GATE 60
15 533336 BROWN, Roger G P USA GATE 48
8 530939 WEIBRECHT, Andrew USA GATE 58
3 530165 BRANDENBURG, Will USA GATE 60 

 

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