Mormons on USA luge team set good example, help win medals
Three of the four members of the USA Junior World Cup luge team that captured the gold medal at Innsbruck, Austria, in January and the silver medal at Nagano, Japan, in February are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Two of them — Taylor Morris, of South Jordan, Utah, and Trent Matheson, of Bountiful, Utah — slide together in the doubles part of the team competition.
In the recent luge U.S. junior championships held in February at Park City, Matheson claimed the silver medal and Morris the bronze.
Team competition in the luge works like this: The fastest time for the male singles and the fastest time for the female singles are combined, and then a doubles run is taken and combined.
The singles' fastest male has been Robby Huerbin of Pittsburgh, the only member of the foursome who is not LDS. The singles' fastest female has been Katie Hansen of La Canada, Calif., the team's third Mormon.
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Trent Matheson, member of the USA Junior World Cup Luge team at the U.S. Nationals at Lake Placid, N.Y., in February 2008. Matheson is one of the three Mormons on the of the four-members USA Junior World Cup luge team that captured the gold medal at Innsbruck, Austria, in January and the silver medal at Nagano, Japan, in February.
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