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Show Coach Named to Alpine Team Park City, UT - Eric Poulsen, 27, from Squaw Valley, CA has been named as Men's Coach with the Alpine Team. He will assist Special Men's Downhill Coach, Jim Barrows, with the men's World Cup downhill group and begins with the team November 1. Poulsen is a former top member mem-ber of the U.S. Ski Team from 1968-1974. He was a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic Team and among his outstanding international interna-tional results was a World Cup downhill 6th at Kitzbuhl, Austria in 1972 and World Cup downhill 9th at Val d'isere, France in December 1972. He is a graduate of th University Univer-sity of Denver where he was an ALL American in 1971. Also in 1971 he won the Combined at the FISU Word University Games in Finland with a 1st in giant slalom and 2nd in slalom. Poulsen retired re-tired from amateur racing in 1974 and won the Sierra Tahoe Professional Profes-sional Tour in 1974-1975. From ' 1974-1976 he coached the Lake Tahoe Ski club and was Squaw Valley Ski Club coach last season. In commenting on the appointment, appoint-ment, Head Men's Coach, Har-ald Har-ald Schoenhaar, said, "I'm pleased plea-sed that Eric, with his strong international race experience has joined our men's staff. He has a good knowledge of the European downhills which will help our team a lot." Alpine Director Hank Tauber said, "Eric's appointment completes com-pletes the alpine staff for the coming season. We have 21 people working with the men's and women's teams and in development devel-opment for the largest alpine staff we have ever had. Jane Coleman our Alpine Secretary. The devel-ment devel-ment staff is Bill Marolt, Director Direc-tor of Development; Curt Hammond, Ham-mond, Domestic Alpine Administrator; Adminis-trator; Doug Smith, Development Coach and U.S. Ski Coaches Association Alpine Executive Director, Di-rector, and Randi Midby, Development Devel-opment secretary. The women's coaching staff directed by Head Women's Coach Hermann Goellnerare women's coaches Michael Rudigoz, John McMurtury, Fritz Vallatn, Ernst Hager, John Travers and women's wo-men's team trainer, John Atkins. The mens coaching staff directed direct-ed by Head Men's Coach Harald Schoenhaar includes men's coaches, Jim Barrows, Dave Dur-rance, Dur-rance, Lee Englesby, Tony Hedgecock, Marty Heib, Eric Poulsen and Konrad Ricken-bach." Ricken-bach." The slalom and giant slalom racers of the men's and women's teams will continue to train on snow at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood through the month of October. |