Vermont H.C.R. 237: House concurrent resolution designating Wednesday, February 7, 2018 as Farm to School Awareness Day at the State House

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No. R-289. House concurrent resolution congratulating the Vermont-associated 2026
Winter Olympics medal winners.
(H.C.R.237)
Offered by All Members of the House
Whereas, the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics included a spectacular display of
the athletic prowess of 24 Vermont-resident or Vermont-educated competitors, and six of
them captured seven of the 33 U.S. medals, confirming the premier role Vermont
continues to play in incubating U.S. Olympic skiers, and
Whereas, Ryan Cochran-Siegle of Starksboro, who attended the University of
Vermont (UVM), repeated his 2022 silver medaling in the alpine super-G, and completed
the course merely 0.13 seconds behind the gold medalist, Franjo von Allmen of
Switzerland, and he won his 2026 silver medal 54 years to the day that his mother,
Barbara Ann Cochran, won the women’s slalom gold medal at the 1972 Winter Olympics
in Sapporo, Japan, and
Whereas, the world’s top-ranked and most-decorated women’s cross-country skier and
founding member of the prestigious SMS T2 cross-country skiing team Jessie Diggins,
competing in her final Olympics, added to her Olympic triumphs (2018–gold–sprint,
2022–silver–freestyle, and 2022–bronze–freestyle sprint) when she captured the bronze
in the 10k skate, and
Whereas, second-time Olympian, Stratton Mountain School alumnus, and big air skier
Mac Forehand, in an astounding display of skiing bravado and ingenuity, completed the
first-ever “2160-degree nose-butter triple cork,” secured the silver medal in the big air
competition, and exercised exemplary sportsmanship, when, by an extremely narrow
margin, Norwegian Tormod Frostad was awarded the gold medal, and
Whereas, former Landgrove and now Richmond resident, Stratton Mountain School
alum, UVM mechanical engineering graduate, two-time individual NCAA cross-country
skiing champion, and member of the prestigious SMS T2 cross-country skiing team Ben
Ogden skied in his second Olympics, and his performance in the cross-country sprint
classic was breathtaking, as he narrowly finished in second place by one second, at 3:40,
to the gold medalist, Norwegian Johannes Høsflot Klaebo, ending the 50-year American
hiatus in men’s cross-country skiing Olympic medaling, which Vermonter Bill Koch last
achieved in 1976, and, as an added thrill, Ben Ogden earned a second silver medal,
teaming with Gus Schumacher on the U.S. men’s cross-country sprint freestyle team to
win the first American medal in this event, and
Whereas, UVM alum and current Waitsfield resident Paula Moltzan was the first
Junior World Championships women’s slalom gold medalist, was the first UVM
Catamount freshman to win the NCAA women’s slalom title, and was twice named an
NCAA First Team All-American; more recently, she performed superbly in World Cup
slalom and giant slalom competitions; and, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, she earned her
first Olympic medal, a bronze, skiing the slalom segment of the new women’s team
combined event, in partnership with her downhill teammate, Jackie Wiles, delighting
students at the Green Mountain Valley School with whom she trains at Sugarbush, and

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Whereas, Burke Academy alum Mikaela Shiffrin, the most decorated alpine skier in
the sport’s history and prior Olympian (2014–gold–slalom, 2018–gold–giant slalom, and
2018–silver–women’s alpine combined), dominated the slalom to win the gold medal,
marking a new milestone in her remarkable career on the slopes, and
Whereas, each of these Vermont-associated medalists magnificently represented our
nation at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, now therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives:
That the General Assembly congratulates the Vermont-associated 2026 Winter
Olympics medal winners, and be it further
Resolved: That the Secretary of State be directed to send a copy of this resolution to
each of the Olympians honored in this resolution.