Born in Claremont, New Hampshire, Cochran was a member of the Skiing Cochrans family of Richmond, Vermont.[1][2] He had one World Cup victory, four podiums, and 21 top ten finishes. His best finish in the World Cup season standings was in 1973: eighth overall and ninth in slalom. Cochran also won the combined event at Kitzbühel, Austria, the first win in that event by an American,[3] although not an official World Cup race at the time. His sole World Cup win was in giant slalom, which he considered his weakest event.[4] That win was the first by an American male in a World Cup giant slalom.[5] It was Cochran's only top ten result in giant slalom, his other twenty were evenly split between downhill and slalom.
At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Japan, Cochran finished eighth in the downhill and 17th in the giant slalom, but fell in the slalom.[6] At the World Championships, he placed 14th in the downhill in 1974 in Switzerland, but fell in both the giant slalom and slalom.[7][8] He was 26th in the downhill in 1970 in Italy.[9]
Cochran's win in the combined at Kitzbühel in 1973 is omitted because it was not an official World Cup race until two years later. He finished 23rd in the slalom portion to win.[3]
