If you want to go snowboarding in College Park, you need a record-shattering blizzard, a friend with a car and — some might argue — not a lot of sense.

At Salt Lake City’s Westminster University, not only are snow-covered legitimate mountains within easy reach, but school officials openly encourage winter sports.

Perhaps then it’s no surprise that the 14 of the school’s 2,600 students are in Vancouver competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics and one of them had already won a medal by Sunday.

According to National Public Radio, 14 members of the U.S. ski and snowboard teams are attending Westminster on full scholarships, and the school is very accommodating of its student athletes.

“Like her Olympic colleagues, [Lacy] Schnoor, 24, basically goes to school when she’s injured,” NPR writes. Schnoor told NPR she’s been a junior for the last four years.

And to think — at this university, the dining halls hide their trays on snow days! That’s no way to get Olympians.

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