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Joe Guilmet Equipment Manager US Hockey Team Olympic Success Story At 15 years of age, Joe was curious about supporting or managing hockey teams.  He had the personality and intellectual gifts for it.  Joe met Don Waddell (current general manager of the Carolina Hurricanes) at that point in his life.  Don got to know Joe…

Kent Mitchell Olympic Rowing Success Story – Never Give Up My childhood dream was to be an Olympic runner.  I’ll never forget when my dad’s friend, Kent Mitchell showed me his Olympic Bronze medal from 1960 Rome games and his gold medal from Tokyo in the men’s coxed pair rowing competition.  Seriously, my jaw dropped…

I met Errol Kerr at Squaw Valley at a presentation by the Vice President of communications of the US Ski and Snowboard team, Tom Kelly.  I got there early, because I wanted a great seat and I was excited.  Who doesn’t want to learn from the best?  I admit I was super nervous to approach…

The Fire Within – Debbie Meyer Olympic Success Story Debbie Weber was born 8/14/1952 and only a year later discovered her love for swimming with an inner tube in the local river (and of course, one of her parents).  She never took a swim lesson, yet in her teens she won 3 gold medals in…

Gratitude Beats Fear Every Time – an Olympic Success Story – Grace Upshaw If you want to learn more about what she’s doing now to help others train their mind and harnesses raw power into a focused tool to accomplish whatever goal they set, visit www.trainwithgrace.com and more all her incredible athletic accomplishments, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Upshaw or http://www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/TrackAndFieldArchive/2009/Upshaw_Grace.asp The first…

How to Do It All – Joshua McAdams Olympic Success Story Every Olympic athlete gives his or her all in their training and during competition.  I’ll probably get busted for saying that XX is the toughest event in the world for several events, but seriously, the steeplechase is an incredibly tough event.  Imagine running almost…