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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyNan, post: 4568945, member: 4"] [I]There are numerous ski academies in the United States, but Burke was the first of its kind in this country when Warren Witherell [aka Olde Coach] founded it near the base of Burke Mountain Resort in 1970 with a single student, Martha Coughlin, who was looking for a way to train full time. The academy’s alumni now include 36 Olympians. Diann Roffe won a gold medal in the giant slalom at the 1985 world championships when she was still enrolled at the academy and went on to win gold in the super-G at the 1994 Winter Olympics[/I]. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/sports/mikaela-shiffrin-burke-mountain-academy.html[/URL] Warren was an accomplished and incredibly interesting man. RIP, Olde Coach. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/burlingtonfreepress/name/warren-witherell-obituary?id=23126079[/URL] [/QUOTE]