The US jumped all over China when reports broke out that their Olympic gymnasts weren’t exactly 16 years old. We condemned the Chinese for pushing their little girls into intense training sessions just to add a few medals to China’s Olympic medal case. Well, it seems that this is just a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

UVM has just sunk its teeth into another young victim, err -- I mean, recruited a young player to its hockey team. Thomas Forgione of South Burlington, has made a verbal commitment to be one of the Catamounts in fall 2011. Why so long from now, you may ask? Forgione is 14 years old – that’s right, he has barely gotten through his freshman year in high school.

The hockey hot shot weighs a mere 155 pounds and measures in at a tiny 5 feet 8 inches. The little guy is nothing but little on the ice as he is currently rated number one forward in Vermont and among the top ten in New England for his birth year, 1993 (sadly, I can remember back to that year).

Forgione has been recruited as one of the hockey team's forwards and if all goes well, he is set to start as a freshman in 2011. Forgoine is such a great player that UVM has generously offered him the position sophomore year if he wants to take a year off before hitting the ice again. Forgione has been marked as one of the youngest people to make a commitment to a university sports team.