All About Stacey Cook
| Hometown | Mammoth, CA |
| Birthplace | Truckee, CA |
| Birthdate | 07/03/84 |
| Team Years | 6 |
| Height | 5-5 / 1.65 |
| Weight | 145 / 65.77 |
| Club | Mammoth Mountain Ski Team |
| School | Nevada (Reno) |
| Equipment | Rossignol, Uvex, Slytech |
| Sponsors | Mammoth Mountain, Athleta, Sun Valley Ski Tools, |
Career Highlights |
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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, then won the NorAm overall and DH titles in '04. She skied onto the 2006 Olympic Team and U.S. coaches agree she's bound for major international success.
UPDATE
After a breakthrough Olympic season in 2006, Cook solidified some of her gains last winter. She opened the winter by finishing fourth on what's emerging as - besides her home (Mammoth Mountain) her favorite hill (Lake Louise), made her first World Championships Team (16th in DH) and turned-in a top-15 at World Cup Finals.
FIRST TRACKS
Cook started skiing at 4 with her father at various Lake Tahoe ski areas 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. When she wanted to try downhill but the Tahoe coaches resisted, she shifted to the Mammoth Mountain racing program, a couple of hours south, and started becoming more speed oriented. A big boost came from the U.S. Ski Team's National Development Systems camp program. She added DH during the Olympic Winter of 2002 and won a NorAm downhill the next season at Lake Louise. "The NorAm win was great. I like speed." She would go on to race at two Junior Worlds
FIRST WORLD CUP
Jan. 20, 2004 at Haus, AUT (41st in DH)
OLYMPICS/WORLDS
2007 Worlds - 16th in DH. 2006 Olympics - 19th in DH, 23rd in GS
CHALLENGES
2005 - Suffered a concussion and injured her right knee in a January crash, sidelining her for parts of the last half of the season.
I AM
"Cookie”..Dad's a contractor, Mom's his officer manager and Cook has one older and one younger brother...I love California's outdoors - camping, hiking, fishing, water skiing/wakeboarding, mountain and road biking...I ued to be a gymnast and also did tae kwon do...Country music, Mexican food and anything cooked by Mom...Pirates of the Caribbean rules...I played on Truckee's 2001 state champion high school soccer team.