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SMU Freshman Taggert Hudson Pursues Olympic Skeleton Dreams

December, 2018. Lake Placid, New York. The track is fully formed and the ice is out. On the last day, 17-year-old Taggert Hudson awaited his turn to practice sledding down the track. It’s long, intimidating, and high up on a mountain at approximately a mile long, where speeds can get up to 75 miles an hour. But, rookies don’t usually get the chance to start from the very top. They’re rookies. They’ll usually start half a quarter of the way up or halfway up. However, the coaches asked him: “Do you want to try from the top?