Minnesota’s Olympic Hockey Cradle (Pop. 1,781)
By JERÉ LONGMAN, NYT
FEB. 4, 2014
WARROAD, Minn. — This time, no royal titles were conferred, like King and Queen of the Frosty Festival, which T. J. Oshie and Gigi Marvin were crowned at Warroad High School in 2005.
Still, it is no small honor for two classmates to be named Olympians from a place that calls itself Hockeytown USA and is one of international sport’s most remote and unlikely capitals.
Warroad, population 1,781, a civic snow globe six miles from the Canadian border, has as many indoor rinks (two) as red lights. The town has sent seven hockey players to the Olympics since 1956 — four of them from the same family, the Christians — and each one has returned with a medal. The hope is for a pair of golds at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Marvin, 26, a defenseman who won a silver medal with the United States women in 2010, will make her second Olympic appearance.
(More here.)
FEB. 4, 2014
WARROAD, Minn. — This time, no royal titles were conferred, like King and Queen of the Frosty Festival, which T. J. Oshie and Gigi Marvin were crowned at Warroad High School in 2005.
Still, it is no small honor for two classmates to be named Olympians from a place that calls itself Hockeytown USA and is one of international sport’s most remote and unlikely capitals.
Warroad, population 1,781, a civic snow globe six miles from the Canadian border, has as many indoor rinks (two) as red lights. The town has sent seven hockey players to the Olympics since 1956 — four of them from the same family, the Christians — and each one has returned with a medal. The hope is for a pair of golds at the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Marvin, 26, a defenseman who won a silver medal with the United States women in 2010, will make her second Olympic appearance.
(More here.)
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