Seth Wescott is from Sugarloaf, Maine (Carabassett Valley) about an hour or so where I live now and about 20 minutes from the town of Eustis where my grandmother bought a hunting camp over 70 years ago (which to this day still has no electricity, has gas lights, a wood stove, and an outhouse). If you don’t hunt, fish, downhill ski, cross-country ski, snowmobile, snowshoe, or snowboard, well, this area of the state is not for you! For Seth, however, it’s home and where he got a good part of his training to earn his gold in snowboarding at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver this year! We are so proud of him. Congratulations Seth!
We should be proud of our Olympians who represent us. Not to take away from Seth, but for the Texas-bashers out there, our state has also produced several winter Olympians.
Although we never have natural ice in Houston, the area has several indoor ice rinks that have given the US team some champion skaters like racer Chad Hedrick who brought home 3 medals from the 2006 games. Chad was an inline skate champion before trying ice in 2002. He is now 32 but may still have a chance this year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ChadHedrick.jpg
Upscale suburban Sugar Land, Texas, had a couple entered in pairs competition last night, Amanda Evora and Mark Ladwig (didn’t medal however). Evora was born in the Philippines. Sugar Land also gave us Tara Lipinski who won the 1998 ladies figure skating gold medal. I do get the Olympics in my Rio de Janiero hotel room with Portuguese speaking commentators!
This is the rink about 5 miles from my house near NASA:
http://www.spacecityice.com/
I love the above picture of Seth. He looks like a Mainah! LOL And yes Grant, there are Olympians all over our great country and there are ice champions in the good ole state of Texas (minus the neck droolers of course!) too!
We are so proud of Seth. We’re proud of Bode Miller too who grew up in New Hampshire but spent a lot of time on Sugarloaf Mountain as well.
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