The Stratton Mountain School is a college preparatory high school located at Stratton Mountain in Stratton,

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. The school was founded in 1972 by

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and Donald Tarinelli. The current headmaster is Carson Thurber. Stratton Mountain School trains winter athletes with a focus on alpine skiing (including freeski and freestyle), snowboarding, and Nordic skiing. The school has produced 46 Olympic athletes who have won six medals (3 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze).

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('97) won a bronze medal (snowboarding halfpipe) at the 1998 winter games held in

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, Japan, and a gold medal at the 2002 games held in

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, Utah. Powers currently serves Director of the Snowboard program. Other Olympic medalist alumni include

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('03), who won a silver medal in snowboard cross in Torino, Italy in 2006 and two gold medals in Beijing in 2022. Kristen Luckenbill ('97), won a gold medal in soccer at the 2004 Summer Games in

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, Greece.

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