Stratton Mountain School
The Stratton Mountain School is a college preparatory high school located at Stratton Mountain in Stratton, Vermont. The school was founded in 1972 by Warren Hellman and Donald Tarinelli, and the current headmaster is Christopher Kaltas.
Stratton Mountain School trains winter athletes with a focus on alpine skiing, snowboarding, and Nordic skiing. The school has produced 46 Olympic athletes who have won six medals. Ross Powers won a bronze medal at the 1998 winter games held in Nagano, Japan, and a gold medal at the 2002 games held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Powers was recently named Director of the Snowboard program for academic year 2010–2011.
Other medal-owning alumni include Lindsey Jacobellis, with a silver medal in snowboard cross in Torino, Italy, and Kristen Luckenbill, with a gold medal in soccer at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, Greece.
