Penny McCoy

Penny McCoy ( born 1950 ) is a former American alpine skier.

McCoy was born as a daughter of the hydrographer Dave McCoy and his wife Roma. In his research, her father realized that the province in central California Mammoth Mountain had more snow than any other mountains of this region. He leased the land in 1953 for the next 99 years for a U.S. dollars per year, and founded the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. This was the training ground of his daughter and she grew to become one of the top runners in her country.

The mid-1960s, she was accepted as the youngest athlete in the history of U.S. skiing in the ski team. In the Alpine World Ski Championships 1966 in Portillo, she was the youngest participant at age 16, where she won the third place in the slalom, the only medal for the United States for the title.

From the season 1966/67, she established herself in the newly created World Cup, especially in the slalom in the world rankings, and was well on the way to qualify for the Olympic Winter Games 1968. Shortly before the Olympics, it was replaced by the team management, however. This disappointment was the end of her successful career. She retired from active competition and married actor and stuntman Stan Barrett. She moved with him three children. After 19 years of marriage, in which she had abused her husband in his own words, she divorced, returned to Mammouth Mountain back and climbed successfully in the management of the ski resort of their parents.