Sun., April 25th, 2010

NATE CLOUTIER
(GM of the Vermont Lake Monsters; http://www.vermontlakemonsters.com/)

Nate was named Lake Monsters General Manager on November 9, 2009 and has been with the organization since 2002. Nate was the team's Assistant General Manager 2007-2009 after holding positions such as Director of Ticket Operations, Merchandise Operations and Publications & Graphic Design 2002-2007. A 1998 graduate of St. Johnsbury Academy, where a two-time Vermont State Decathlon Champion, member of the 1997 Division One State Championship basketball team and a two-time captain of the Track and Field team. Also a 2002 graduate of University of Vermont's Self-Designed program where he focused on Advertising. Nate's career began in Australia during the 2000 Olympic Games, helping the USA Track and Field team on their way to gold.

HANNAH KEARNEY

Birthday: Feb. 26, 1986

Freestyle Skiing - Moguls

2006 Olympian

2010 Olympic gold medalist

Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games

February 13, 2010 - Kearney brought home the first gold medal for Team USA in the 2010 Games with a championship run in moguls at Cypress Mountain, British Columbia. Following a disappointing performance at her first Olympics in 2006, Kearney said she learned from the experience and leveraged that growth to do what she needed to do to win.

Personal Specs

Height: 5'6"

Short List Performance

2006 Olympic Winter Games - 22nd
2005 World Champion
2009 World Championships bronze medalist (dual moguls), 14th (moguls)
2009 World Cup Season Champion
2010 Olympic Winter Games gold medalist
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games

Kearney's gold is the first gold medal for the U.S. women since Donna Weinbrecht won women's moguls at the Albertville 1992 Olympics.

Personal

Kearney started skiing at age 2, coming up through the Ford Sayre program and Nick Preston's Black and Blue Trail Smashers Team at Waterville Valley, N.H. Prior to winning four Junior World Championships in moguls, she was a high school state soccer and track champion. Once Kearney narrowed her focus to moguls full-time, she won two competitions in her first World Cup season at age 17. She missed the 2007 World Championships due to a torn knee ligament, then missed three weeks in 2008 with a concussion.

Kearney is a member of a sports-crazed family. Her mother is a recreation director in Norwich; her brother, Denny, is a star hockey player at Yale; and her dad used to coach Denny in Babe Ruth baseball. Kearney was a straight-A student.

Did You Know...?

While injured in 2007, she took in a 7-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback dog, Lola, from an elderly woman who couldn't care for her

Carries photos of family and friends and knitting supplies on the road
 
BOB RYAN
(http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ryan)