VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

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Brattleboro

Nordic Skiing

Inducted 2022

A Vermont high school champion, NCAA champion and U.S. national champion, Stan Dunklee skied in two Olympics for the U.S.

He was considered - along with Bill Koch - one of America's top cross country ski stars of the late 70s. Dunklee, from Brattleboro, as well as VSHOF inductees Koch, John Caldwell and Tim Caldwell of Putney, and several other U.S. Olympians developed their talents growing up in Vermont’s Windham county. 

Dunklee went on to compete for his country in the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics. He finished 36th in the 50K at Innsbruck in 1976 and skied in four events at the 1980 Lake Placid games. He finished 22nd in the 15K, 30th in the 30K and 33rd in the 50K, and was a part of a 4 x 10K relay team that skied to an 8th place finish.

He returned to UVM from the 1976 Olympics to win the NCAA 15-kilometer race at Bethel, Maine, one of the few Americans to win a Nordic individual title. Also in college, he was selected All-East four times, winning the Eastern 15K titles at Middlebury in 1975 and 1976, the two years he would go on to earn first-team All-America honors. 

Dunklee also won several U.S. national titles between 1976 and 1982. In 1976, 1977 and 1979, he was the 50K champion; in 1977 and 1978, the 15K champion; and in 1980 and 1982, the 30K national champ.

In addition to Nordic skiing, Dunklee was one of the fall cross country runners during the mid/late 70's in the region, in high school and at UVM. In 1971 at Brattleboro Union High, he was unbeaten in cross country running, winning the 1971 state individual title.

Dunklee was inducted into the UVM Athletic Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2016. His daughter, Susan, has represented the U.S. in three Olympics in biathlon.