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Penny McCoy

Penny McCoy
— Alpine skier —
Disciplines Giant Slalom, Slalom
Club Mammoth Mountain (CA)
Born (1949-10-09) October 9, 1949 (age 68)
World Cup debut January 1967 (age 17)
(inaugural season)
Retired 1969 (age 19)
Olympics
Teams 0 – (alternate in 1968)
World Championships
Teams 1 – (1966)
Medals 1 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons 3 – (196769)
Podiums 0
Overall titles 0 - (13th in 1967)
Discipline titles 0 - (9th in SL, 1967)

Penny McCoy (born October 9, 1949) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.

At age 16, McCoy won the bronze medal in the women's slalom at the 1966 World Championships in Portillo, Chile, held in August. She had six top ten finishes in World Cup competition.

Shortly before the 1968 Olympics, McCoy and Sandy Shellworth were left off the U.S. team by head coach Bob Beattie, displaced by new arrivals Kiki Cutter and Judy Nagel. Shellworth did get to compete, as an injury replacement in the downhill, but McCoy did not.

McCoy is the daughter of Dave McCoy (b. 1915), the founder of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in California in 1953. She and her five siblings were raised in nearby Bishop. McCoy is the sister of Dennis McCoy (b. 1945), who was also a World Cup racer. He finished 21st in the downhill at the 1968 Olympics. She was formerly married to stuntman Stan Barrett (b. 1943), stuntmen David Barrett and Stanton Barrett (b. 1972) are their sons.



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