Sports & Recreation

From Melinda Moulton:

Jan Reynolds is a world record setting climber and skier, olympic athlete, and award winning author and photographer. She's known for her ability to capture extraordinary imagery and stories while climbing and skiing in extremely high-risk environments and expeditions.

Jan secured a breakthrough assignment on a high-profile, National Geographic–sponsored climb and ski of Mustagata in Western China, where she set the world high altitude skiing record for women, as well as set the record for the highest descent from a summit with her male partners. She led dozens of exploratory expeditions and completed first ascents around the globe, working with the best adventure athletes in the world - including the gruelling record setting Everest Grand Circle Expedition. Her adventures are chronicled in her book The Glass Summit; One Woman's Epic Journey Breaking Through. She lives in Stowe, Vermont.

For more information about this guest, visit: http://www.janreynolds.com/

Host Sandy Baird chats with Eric Agnero about the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit in Washington D.C. that is taking place December 13-15, 2022. They also discuss the World Cup soccer match between Morocco and France.

From Melinda Moulton:

"Bob" Cochran, M.D., is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States.

Born in Claremont, New Hampshire, Cochran was a member of the Skiing Cochrans family of Richmond, Vermont. He had one World Cup victory, four podiums, and 21 top ten finishes. His best finish in the World Cup season standings was in 1973: eighth overall and ninth in slalom. Cochran also won the combined event at Kitzbühel, Austria, the first win in that event by an American, although not an official World Cup race at the time. His sole World Cup win was in giant slalom, which he considered his weakest event. That win was the first by an American male in a World Cup giant slalom. It was Cochran's only top ten result in giant slalom, his other twenty were evenly split between downhill and slalom. 

Barbara Ann Cochran is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from the United States.

Born in Claremont, New Hampshire, Cochran was the second of four siblings of the famous "Skiing Cochrans" family of Richmond, Vermont, which has operated a small ski area in their backyard since 1961. Her father, Gordon "Mickey" Cochran, was a longtime coach, coaching youngsters of the Smuggler's Notch Ski Club, the University of Vermont Ski Team, and the U.S. Ski Team. The family has placed several generations of athletes on the U.S. Ski Team: three-time national champion sister Marilyn, Barbara Ann, nine-time national champion brother Bob, and two-time national champion sister Lindy. The family's next generation includes niece Jessica Kelley, nephews Jimmy Cochran, Roger Brown, Tim Kelley, Robby Kelley, and son, Ryan Cochran-Siegle.

From Media Factory:

Baseball VT Lake Monster's Futures League Finish Part #2.