Lindy Cochran

Linda Lorraine " Lindy " Cochran ( born October 7, 1953 in Richmond, Vermont) is a former American alpine skier. She is the youngest of the legendary Cochran siblings who dominated the American skiing from the late 1960s to mid-1970s. Like their older siblings Marilyn, Barbara and Bob, she was trained by her ski-loving parents in the family's own ski resort in northern Vermont to Weltklasseskiläuferin.

Cochran came 1970 on the U.S. Ski Team. At this time, her three siblings had already celebrated all international success. Lindy Cochran got her first major title in 1973, when she became U.S. champion in slalom. A year later, it reached the second place in the slalom of Les Gets, the best World Cup result of her career.

At its most successful year, the 1975/76 season, when she won her second U.S. title in giant slalom and a sixth place in the slalom best-placed runner of the U.S. Ski Association at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck was was.

1978 Lindy Cochran resigned from the national team and launched until 1981 for the ski team at the University of Vermont. Today she lives with her husband Steve Kelley in Starksboro (Vermont ) and works as a ski instructor. Her daughter Jessica Kelley and her sons Tim and Robby Kelley Kelley were also skier.