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Schusski League is the 2009 Winner of the Roma Mc Coy Trophy. |
The Far West Racing
Associations Roma McCoy Award was established in 1992 as an award for
the FWRA member race league whose race team individual members scored
the most points per racer start. In essence it is an overall racer
quality award. Since its inception almost every league, large and small
has won this coveted trophy. To this point, it has become the true trophy to win.
The Roma McCoy Trophy was
conceived in 1992 as an alternative to the changing sizes of the various
race leagues and the pre determination that the winner of the winning of
the Championship trophy would be among the three leagues who each
brought a large number of racers. Through out the 1990's the race
leagues began to change in structure, largely due to the massive
lay-offs of aerospace workers in the southern California region and the
build-up of silicon valley jobs in northern California. As a result the
southern California leagues began to shrink dramatically while the
northern California leagues began to grow. The net result was where the
southern California leagues dominated competition during the seventies
and the eighties, by 1991 the three Northern California Leagues now
dominated the racing scene. Thus the idea for a award which could be won
not on the basis of the size of a league, but rather upon the quality of
performance of it's individual racers was born. Modeled after the
Chairman's Trophy awarded by FWRA member Schusski League (Orange
Council), the Roma McCoy Award is an outstanding success. Once the
concept of the trophy was approved by the FWRA board, we approached John
Armstrong, then the Director of Racing at Mammoth Mountain, for funding
of the trophy for the next five years. He quickly agreed with the
condition that the trophy be named after celebrated local alpine racer
Roma McCoy and be displayed in the trophy case in Jill's Room at the
Main Lodge at Mammoth Mountain. Thus, the Trophy became reality. |
Roma, Mark Hanlon & Dave McCoy
Roma McCoy was born Roma Carriere. Growing up in Bishop California, she didn't learn to ski
until
she met Dave McCoy in 1938. By the end of the year she not only learned
to ski but was winning several local races.
Roma Carriere won the Inyo Mono
Championships in 1940 and placed second in 1941. After the war, when
the races resumed, racing now as Roma McCoy, she won the Inyo Mono
Championships each year between 1946 and 1951, except for 1950 when
she placed third. During several of these events she raced pregnant,
sometimes in her trimester. After 1951, the race discontinued. Roma
was clearly the top female racer in Inyo/Mono counties during this
time period.
Roma also placed well in the races she
attended outside of the Inyo/Mono counties during her racing career,
however, even though she enjoyed the racing, her main focus was
raising her family. By 1951, she already had five children, and in
1953, her sixth was born. She still continued to be an avid skier,
often skiing with and inspiring both Charlotte Zumstein and Jill
Kinmont, two female racers from Inyo/Mono counties who won national
races.
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