Over the past three weekends the newly-turned 24-year-old’s sensationally won world cup giant slalom (GS) races in the United States and Canada and then her first super G world cup, for her first podium finish in the discipline, in St Moritz.
She’s now, among female athletes, top of the world in two out of four alpine skiing disciplines, and second overall.
Arrowtowner Coberger in February said her GS silver medal at the world champs — New Zealand’s first medal at the event — was "arguably her greatest achievement to date".
However, he says, "to have two GS victories in a row, and then a super G, she’s gone next level".
"She’s a better athlete, a better competitor than she was at world champs."
Coberger says Robinson learnt a lot when finishing eighth at her first world cup GS this northern hemisphere season in Solden, Austria, for which she’d been "an absolute favourite".
Turning up with the attitude, ‘I’m the favourite, so I’ll just turn up and ski’, hadn’t worked.
"We learnt she’s got to go in there with some fiery determination and just know she has to get the job done, and man, she did that."
He was proud of how in her second Canadian race she’d made a huge mistake, but still kept going to finish third.
Coberger says following St Moritz, Robinson’s "over the moon she’s now a two-events skier, and two events at the top of the world".
"Hopefully we can keep that rolling and keep her grounded, and that’s the great thing with Alice, she knows she’s got to deliver week in, week out, but now she knows she can do it.
"She believes in the process, in her technique, her tactics, the team around her."
This weekend she’s competing again at super G, in Val d’Isere, France, then back to GS in Semmering, Austria, on the 27th.
Coberger says for February’s Winter Olympics in Italy’s Milano Cortina, where she races every year, "hopefully we just treat it as another world cup and we just roll into it from the previous weekend and try not to add any additional pressure".
After the Olympics, he reveals the plan is she’ll also get into more downhill racing.
