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Message: [QUOTE="Blakeon18, post: 2984986, member: 35"] I was [and am] pretty much a No-Nothing about skiing but I had the great fortune for Olde Coach [Warren Witherell] to coach me up [slightly]. Reminder: Mikaela attended Burke Mt. Ski Academy...Warren started that school decades ago and it has produced many elite skiers...Mikaela being the best. Warren told me that when Mikaela was about 13...maybe her first year at the school...a coach up there saw Warren up on a visit and asked him to come into his office and watch a tape of her. He watched and by the end of it he said he was in tears [Go Olde Coach!!]...completely awed by her skills at such a young age. I think I have his prediction essentially correct....namely that she would be awesome in the slalom right away and gradually expand her expertise to the giant slalom...then the superG...and lastly [maybe] to the downhill. Pretty much he nailed it....with still years to go for Mikaela to keep adding to her records. BTW: he kept an eye on her on his visits up there on and off the slopes and was as impressed with her wonderfulness off as on....dealing with peers etc. [/QUOTE]