Yippee!!

23-year-old Vermonter Hannah Kearney just completed an amazing run to take home the Gold Medal in the women’s moguls ski competition – the first US Gold of the 2010 Olympics.

Now if we can juts get the media to stop referring to her as a New Hampsherite (we Vermonters just don’t get no respect).

From her bio at usskiteam.com, Kearney describes herself as:

Just one member of a sports-oriented family – Mom’s the recreation director in Norwich, brother Denny is a first-rate hockey player (and, before focusing on the ice, he was an outstanding baseball player – and Dad coached his Babe Ruth team)…When she was sidelined in ’07, she took over a 7-year-old Rhodesian Ridgeback dog, Lola, from an elderly women who couldn’t care for her…Gotta-have when she travels: family and friends’ photos plus knitting supplies…Kearney was national junior moguls champ in ’02 but it got lost between the two Juniors Worlds titles and being an Olympic forerunner at Deer Valley in ’02 (being a forerunner, she said, “gave me something to strive for”)…Played trumpet in the school jazz band into her sophomore year… Enjoys riding horses, cooking, playing soccer and reading…She’s not much for watching sports on TV – “I’d rather be playing some sport than watching it”…”Fried Green Tomatoes” is (still) her favorite movie…

Congratulations!