Education
University of Vermont.
University of Vermont.
She made her World Cup debut at age 18 in March 1968, a month after the Winter Olympics, with a pair of top ten finishes at the season"s final stop in Aspen, Colorado. Brother Bob (b 1951) joined the men"s "A team" for the 1970 season and the three siblings competed on the World Cup tour through the 1974 season. The first victory came in February 1971 close to home, in Quebec at Mont Saint Anne, with sister Barbara as runner-up.
At the World Championships in 1974 in Switzerland, she finished eighth in giant slalom, and retired from international competition after the season.
After her racing career, Cochran attended the University of Vermont in Burlington in and graduated in 1979. Their son Roger Brown, a 2004 graduate of Dartmouth College, was also an All-American.
Younger son Douglas Brown was captain of the ski team at Saint Lawrence University, and graduated in 2009. Cochran was inducted into the National Ski Hall of Fame in 1978.
Season titles
Season standings
Points were only awarded for top ten finishes (see scoring system).
Race podiums
3 wins - (1 GS, 2 SL)
15 podiums (9 GS, 6 SL).
The eldest of four siblings of the "Skiing Cochrans" family of Richmond, Vermont, she became the first American to win a discipline championship in the World Cup, triumphing in giant slalom at age 19 in 1969. The next year, she won a bronze medal in the combined at the World Championships. Marilyn was a three-time United States. national champion during her career. In the 1969 season, she finished runner-up in the final five giant slalom races and won the World Cup season title. Cochran was the only American alpine racer with a World Cup season title until 1980, when Philosophy Mahre won the combined. She won the bronze medal in the combined at the 1970 World Championships in Val Gardena, Italy. Sister Barbara was fourth in that competition, but won a silver in the slalom, where Marilyn was sixth. Cochran won three World Cup races, two in giant slalom and one in slalom, and had 15 podiums and fifty top ten finishes. She competed in all three events at the Winter Olympics in 1972 in Japan, but with disappointing results: 28th in downhill, 20th in giant slalom, and a fall in the first run of the slalom, the race won by her sister. He was the 2002 National Collegiate Athletic Association slalom champion and competed on the United States. Ski Team.
