Career
Owens competed in the 2002 Winter in Alpine, the 2010 Winter and 2014 Winter in Freestyle. Owens made her Alpine debut in Street Moritz Switzerland on 17 December 1999 at age 21. She also collected her first points (top-30 finish in a race) at this event.
Owens struggled to make the top-30 consistently and did not score any more points until 21 December 2001 back in Street Moritz.
Owens best placing on the Alpine tour was 17th in Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria. Owens competed in alpine skiing for 14 years, skiing in the 2002 Winter in Salt Lake City (Australia at the Winter ) and in two world Championships, Street Anton 2001 and Street Moritz 2003.
She retired from Alpine racing in January 2004. In June 2005, Owens decided to make a come back and compete in the new Olympic event (for Vancouver 2010) called Ski Cross.
Owens landed on the podium a number of time throughout her Ski Cross career but had several injuries previous to the Vancouver and underwent two knee surgeries, one 4 months and the other 4 weeks before the Games.
Owens placed 13th in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. She underwent her fourth knee surgery (second Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstruction) right after the in March 2010. Owens was back on the Ski Cross tour in 2011 collecting a bronze medal at the 2010-2011 FIS Freestyle Skiing in Canada and also place 5th at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2011 in Deer Valley United States of America and also collected a Bronze at the 2012 Owens competed at her third ( 2014 Winter ) in Sochi, Russia placing 12th.
Sochi 2014 – Freestyle
Finished 12th in the Ski cross
Vancouver 2010 – Freestyle
Finished 13th in the Ski cross
Salt Lake 2002 – Alpine
Finished 9th in the combined
Finished 29th in the downhill
Finished 28th in the super-G
Did not finish in giant slalom
Did not start in slalom
Voss NOR 2013 – Freestyle
DNF in ski cross
Deer Valley United States of America 2011 – Freestyle
5th position in ski cross
Inawashiro JPN 2009 – Freestyle
15th position in ski cross
Street Moritz SUI 2003 – Alpine
DNF downhill due to injury
Street Anton AUT 2001 – Alpine
31 – Downhill
34 – Super-G
31 – Giant slalom
Owens has had two silver and two bronze medals on the Freestyle tour to date in her career.
Owens has been one of the top ranked ski cross athletes since her debut in 2005. In 2009–2010 she had numerous injuries and missed eight of the scheduled world cups and nearly the Vancouver 2010.
Owens competed on the Alpine for 6 years, placing in the top 30 several times in the Combined and Downhill events. Invitation 2012 – qualified 4th = BRONZE
Invitation 2008 – qualified 9th = 4th in semi, did not start small finals
Invitation 2007 – qualified 12th = 3rd in semi, DNF finals
Invitation 2005 – qualified 3rd = injured her self in training prior to the finals.
