Jessie Diggins

The Podium: This Small Prep School Is a Pipeline to Winter Olympics

The Beijing Winter Olympics highlights 46 alumni from a small institution in Vermont called the Stratton Mountain School

Jessie Diggins training

The Stratton Mountain School-to-Winter Olympics pipeline is strong.

For those who haven’t heard of the small prep institution in southern Vermont, Stratton Mountain School has sent 46 alumni to the Olympics – and several are competing in 2022, including cross-country skier Jessie Diggins.

On 'The Podium' from Day 2 of the 2022 Winter Olympics, three Stratton alumni – snowboarder Louie Vito and cross-country skiers Ben Ogden and Julia Kern – talk about their experience at the school.Β 

Topics range from how Stratton differed from a typical high school in a small Vermont community to whether certain senior pranks were pulled.

You can find new episodes ofΒ The Podium on Amazon Music.

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