Erica Skinger

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Erica Skinger
—  Alpine skier  —
Disciplines Downhill, Slalom
Club Mt. Mansfield Ski Club [1]
Born (1949-03-21) March 21, 1949 (age 69)
Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
World Cup debut January 1968 (age 18)
Olympics
Teams 0
World Championships
Teams 0
World Cup
Podiums 0 - (8 top tens)
Overall titles 0 – (24th in 1968)
Discipline titles 0 – (10th in DH, 1969)

Erica Adams "Rickey" Skinger (born March 21, 1949) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.

FIS Alpine Ski World Cup international alpine skiing competition during northern winter

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Early years

Born in Burlington, Vermont, she was one of three daughters of Joseph and Constance Adams Skinger. [2] [3] The family moved from Alburg Springs on Lake Champlain to Stowe in 1957, where Skinger learned to ski and race on Mount Mansfield at the Stowe ski area. Her father Joe was a sculptor and jeweler and the family also operated a ski inn, the Tucker House Lodge on Mountain Road.

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Joseph A. "Joe" Skinger was an American metalsmith and sculptor of the 1950s and 1960s. He practiced in Vermont, and as a craftsman his work in hand-wrought jewelry was primarily carried out in silver. He designed and created production pieces made by himself and his assistant Gay Bessette. In addition he created unique jewelry pieces, often in molten silver and sometimes combined with stones or wood. In sculpture the main body of his work was in molten silver and cast bronze. Other sculptural works were created in wood, copper, and corrugated fiberglass.

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U.S. Ski Team

While in her late teens, Skinger was a member of the U.S. Ski Team. [4] She was one of three teenagers (with Kiki Cutter and Judy Nagel) that arrived in Europe a month before the 1968 Winter Olympics to gain experience and also challenge for spots on the U.S. Olympic team. [5] [6] Allowed four entrants for each of the three Olympic alpine events, the U.S. team was traditionally selected at the previous year's national championships in March, but head coach Bob Beattie was dissatisfied with the women's team's performance in late 1967. Skinger did not make the U.S. Olympic team (Cutter and Nagel did) but had eight top ten finishes in World Cup competition, four in downhill and four in slalom in just over a year, from January 1968 to January 1969.

United States Ski Team

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Christina "Kiki" Cutter is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. She was the first American to win a World Cup event, a slalom race in Oslo, Norway, on February 25, 1968. Although Cutter competed on the World Cup circuit for less than three years, her five career victories led the U.S. alpine team for eleven years, surpassed by Phil Mahre in 1979.

Judy Ann Nagel is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.

World Cup results

Season Date Location Discipline Place
1968 18 Jan 1968 Flag of Austria.svg Bad Gastein, Austria Slalom 10th
23 Feb 1968 Flag of France.svg Chamonix, France Downhill 9th
15 Mar 1968 Flag of the United States.svg Aspen, USA Downhill 10th
28 Mar 1968 Flag of Canada.svg Rossland, Canada Slalom 6th
6 Apr 1968 Flag of the United States.svg Heavenly Valley, USA Slalom 8th
1969 10 Jan 1969 Flag of Switzerland.svg Grindelwald, Switzerland Downhill 9th
15 Jan 1969 Flag of Austria.svg Schruns, Austria Downhill 5th
23 Jan 1969 Flag of France.svg St. Gervais, France Slalom 10th

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References

  1. ↑ "History: 1960s". Mt. Mansfield Ski and Snowboard Club. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
  2. ↑ Steade, Nancy Wolfe (January 11, 2007). "Skinger family's history at museum". Stowe Today.com. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Constance Adams Skinger". Stowe Today.com. December 1, 2005. Retrieved January 5, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Lafferty wins holiday downhill". Eugene Register-Guard. Associated Press. December 24, 1968. p. 2B.
  5. ↑ "U.S. girl skier scores surprise in giant slalom". (Meriden, CT) Morning Record. Associated Press. January 11, 1968. p. 9.
  6. ↑ Grimsley, Will (February 2, 1968). "Chewing gum kids skiing for Uncle Sam". Gettysburg (PA) Times. Associated Press. p. 7.
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