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Message: [QUOTE="Blakeon18, post: 3453185, member: 35"] I don't know if there is a link out there but the current edition of Sports Illustrated [March] has a picture on the cover of one Mikaela Shiffrin with an interesting article inside. Many Boneyarders remember Warren Witherell...aka Olde Coach...for his love of all things Huskies and for his knowledge and wisdom of the elite skiing world. Mikaela attended Warren's ski/academic high school at Burke Mountain in Vermont...she is now 24...already has achieved historic numbers and is on pace to be the most dominant skier in the world...ever. Her dad passed away very recently and the article reveals how Mikaela is dealing with that and with her self-doubts about her place in the world she resides. It's a great read. She has won 66 world cup races [17 in the past year] and Stenmark [retired] is currently #1 with 86. Stenmark himself thinks Shiffrin will top 100 before she is done. The article makes it darn easy to be a fan of her. I remember having a conversation with Olde Coach about her. Maybe when she was around 13 or so and newly enrolled in Warren's academy a coach asked Warren to step into his office and watch a tape of a new kid. Warren went in...watched Mikaela zoom down the slope and ...stunned by her artistry and technique even at that tender age..told me he was in tears at the end of the tape. He kept an eye on her during her stay there and said that she was as great off the skis as she was on...always having time for those students who idolized her. I am sure Olde Coach is somehow rooting her on. He passed away about 5 or 6 years ago and I miss his UConn posts and chats. BTW: Apparently Sports Illustrated is now a monthly publication....yikes! No more weekly editions. The March edition is bigger and slicker than in past copies. [/QUOTE]

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