Skiing: Cohee to compete at national championships

Troy Cohee, a junior at Douglas High School currently attending the Sugar Bowl College Prep Ski Academy in North Lake Tahoe, has been selected to represent the Western Region of the United States in the 2010 J2 National Alpine Ski Championships to be held March 4-9 at Sugarloaf Mountain Resort in Kentfield, Maine. He was one of eight athletes selected from the Far West Region.

A total of 60 athletes age 16 were selected from three regions across the country to compete in four events, including downhill, super giant slalom, giant slalom and slalom.

Cohee will be in the top seed in giant slalom, but has also skied well in qualifying events in both the super giant slalom and slalom. Sugarloaf Mountain Resort is well known in the alpine racing community as a national class site, host to the U.S. Alpine Ski

Championships in 2009. Cohee earned his selected with top finishes recently at the J2 National Qualifier in Jackson, Wyoming.

Cohee, son of long time Carson Valley residents Tim and Anita Cohee, comes from a competitive skiing heritage. His father, a 17 year executive with Kirkwood Mountain Resort, was a ski racer in the 1980s, his older brother Nick is an All-American skier for the University of Utah, and another older brother, Chase, who attends Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, will compete in the 2010 North American Free Skiing Championships at Kirkwood March 4-6.

Cohee, a member of the 2009 Douglas High varsity soccer team, Northern Nevada Championship runner-up and state semifinalist, will return to Douglas after the end of the racing season in April.