JUMPING-OFF POINT AS A BREEDING GROUND FOR OLYMPIC HOPEFULS, STEAMBOAT TOPS LIST.(Sports)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: April 14, 2001| Author: Parrish, Paula | Copyright information

Byline: Paula Parrish News Staff Writer

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS -- It's 7:25 a.m., much too early to be dissecting logarithms.

Outside, fat snowflakes are falling in the gray, early-morning light. Inside, the basement classroom at Steamboat Springs High School is a pocket of woozy concentration. Most of the other 40 classrooms in the school are dark and quiet.

``Does anybody have a question on No. 8? What about No. 11?'' mathematics teacher Ron Schnacke...

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