Vermont gold medalist Ross Powers pays it forward

Ross Powers competes at the 2012 SBX World Cup at Stoneham, Canada. Photo by Oliver Kraus/FIS
History remembers Ross Powers as the first American man to win snowboarding’s Olympic gold medal. But the Vermonter himself recalls a hardscrabble childhood as a prodigy in a sport few had yet to hear of.
“My mom, being a single parent, was sometimes giving up groceries to let me do the local events,” he says today.RELATED STORIESMost families of Vermont Olympians cheering from homeThe