A Record Win
The America East Conference announced July 20th that the University of Vermont’s student-athletes secured the athletic department’s record ninth Walter Harrison Academic Cup. The Walter Harrison Academic Cup is presented each season by the conference to the institution with the best cumulative GPA among its student-athletes competing in league sports. Vermont earned the 2022-23 honor with a...
Strong Engine, Works Good
In January of 2022, Ben Ogden had a few days back in Vermont. It was his senior year at UVM, and Ogden had been in Europe, ski racing on the World Cup circuit. An engineering major, sometime construction worker, and old car enthusiast who grew up in Landgrove, Vt.—population 177 souls—he’s arguably the most promising American cross-country skier in a generation.
A Year for the Ages
What was the greatest year in UVM sports history? Was it 1912, when Albert Gutterson, class of 1912, won a gold medal in Stockholm with a new Olympic record in the long jump? Was it 1931, when undergrad Edith Pritchard ’31 posted 28 perfect scores in rifle and set a Women’s Individual Intercollegiate NRA match record?