West Fargo Grad Steering Toward Olympic Skeleton Team

USA head skeleton coach Orvie Garrett says Schulz has an outside chance of making the 2010 Olympic team, and a solid chance of making the 2014 team.

West Fargo High School graduate Luke Schulz is on a slippery slope, to the Olympics.

The 23-year-old excels in the sport of skeleton, where competitors drive a one-man sled headfirst down an ice track. He's ranked ninth in the country, and he's been accepted into the yearlong Olympic residency program at Lake Placid, New York.

USA head skeleton coach Orvie Garrett says Schulz has an outside chance of making the 2010 Olympic team, and a solid chance of making the 2014 team.

Schulz is aiming to become North Dakota's third native Winter Olympian. He would join Don Barcome Junior of Grand Forks, who was a member of the 2002 curling team, and Ken Purpur of Grand Forks, who played on the 1956 hockey team that won a silver medal.