Bio_W-Schleper-e

SCHLEPER Sarah (USA)

19.02.1979. Glenwood Springs, CO.
Hometown: Vail, CO.
160cm / 63kg

SKI: Rossignol
BOOTS: Rossignol
BINDING: Rossignol


Sestriere 01 SL/ 2nd	Berchtesgaden 02 SL/ 5th


Berchtesgaden 02 GS	Park City 03 GS

Lenzerheide 05 SL/ 1st

World Cup Ranking
General
1998/102nd, 1999/90th, 2000/50th, 2001/23rd, 2002/22nd, 2003/22nd, 2004/17th,
2005/17th, 2006/65th.
Special
2000 SL/21st, 2001 SL/11th, GS/21st. 2002 SL/10th, GS/20th.
2003 SL/12th, GS/21st. 2004 SL/11th, GS/12th. 2005 SL/5th, GS/20th.
2006 SL/27th, GS/36th.
World Championships
2001 St.Anton SL/DNF.
2003 St.Moritz SL/DNF, GS/DNF.
2005 Bormio/Santa Caterina. SL/7th, GS/13th.
Oyimpic Games
1998 Nagano SL/22nd.
2002 Salt Lake city GS/21st.
2006 Torino. SL/10th,
World Cup 1 w. ( 1 SL)

1.	SL:	Lenzerheide 05,
2.	SL:	Sestriere 01-I, 04,
3.	GS:	Semmering 01,
4:	GS:	Semmering 05,
4:	SL:	Ofterschwang 01, Arber 04, Maribor 05,
5.	GS:	Arber 04,
5.	SL:	Maribor 02, Saalbach 02, Berchtesgaden 02, Semmering 03, 05,
6.	SL:	Semmering 01, Lienz 02, Park City 03, Zagreb 05,
7.	SL:	Maribor 2000, 02, Lenzerheide 03, Altenmarkt 05,
7.	GS:	Maribor 01, Lillehammer 03, Soelden 04, Sestriere 04,
8.	GS:	Val d'Isere 03, Lienz 04,
8.	SL:	Are 02, Megeve 04,
9.	GS:	Park City 04, Ofterschwang 06-II,
9.	SL:	Madonna 04-II,
10.	GS:	Maribor 02,
10.	SL:	Santa Caterina 05,
11.	GS:	Berchtesgaden 00, Sestriere 03-Ko,
11.	SL:	Madonna 04-I, Aspen 05-I, ,
12.	GS:	Val d'Isere 02,
12.	SL:	Aspen 01, Lillehammer 03,
13.	SL:	Lienz 06,
14.	GS:	Cortina 02, Semmering 03,
14.	SL:	Garmisch 01,
15.	GS:	Flachau 02, St.Moritz 05,
15.	SL:	Aspen 05-II,
16.	GS:	Park City 99, Are 01, Berchtesgaden 02, Are 03,
16.	SL:	Sestriere 00,
17.	GS:	Val d'Isere 00, Are 00,
17.	SL:	Berchtesgaden 00, Bormio 03, Zagreb 06,
18.	GS:	Serre Chevalier 00, Lienz 02, Bormio 03, Alta Badia 04,
18.	SL:	Sta.Caterina 00,
19.	SL:	Ofterschwang 06,
20.	SL:	Copper Mt. 00, Sestriere 02,
20.	GS:	Cortina 00, Park City 03, Ore 05,

Perhaps the best way to describe Sarah Schleper is "a work in progress."

The gate-runner with the signature blonde curls flaring out from under a headband of some sort enjoyed the best season of her career last winter, including a World Cup podium in both slalom and GS. Her project is to carry the confidence into this Olympic season. "I think she’ll be strong in both events; it’s just a matter of her pulling together her strengths," according to Head Coach Marjan Cernigoj.

Comment: "It was a good year. I think I proved a lot to myself, that I can ski at the top level and I can really challenge. I know I have to work on my consistency -- that’s always a big part -- from race to race, but when I attack I know I can do it. You can’t hold back on the World Cup. You gotta go for it...and I need to ski in the races like I ski in training."

Start-up: Gift skis for her second birthday got Schleper into skiing; when she was 11, she decided to try racing. She was 16 when she reached the World Cup - in a race in Vail. She was silver medalist in slalom at the ‘97 World Junior Championships and raced in the ‘98 Olympics, but a broken leg sidelined her for the ‘99 Worlds in her hometown.

Coachquote: "Sarah had a good year but she can do better, and she knows we’ll be expecting it. She expects it, too. I see the same kinds of results, only now she should be more consistent. One more summer of good training and it should happen automatically. It’s just a natural process. Her curve has been going up and up every year. We’re expecting a good year." -- George Capaul

Coachquote II: "[In ‘00], she scored almost all of her races between 15 and 30th place, with a couple of exceptions. But this past season, Sarah had almost nothing between 15-20 or 15-30; it was almost all between the podium and 15th place." -- Ibid.

Text by US Ski Team

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