Cindy Moriarity and her family are living a dream.
CINDY MORIARITY:
"It's been unbelievable. We have people calling us that we haven't talked to in a long time. My coworkers are so excited and so supportive. Family is going crazy. Everyone. Everywhere we go. It's so much fun."
Such is the life of a parent - when your kid makes the U-S Olympic team.
Especially when it's unexpected, as in the case of Bobsledder Jamie Moriarity.
The 28 year old was a University School and Cornell University football player who lost his NFL dream to an injury; but as his father Tom of Pepper Pike relates - Jamie found his new sport; `almost' by accident.
CINDY MORIARITY:
"He watched it on the Olympics, and when they talked about the athlete's backgrounds and stuff; he said 'You know I think I could do that. And it looks like fun.' That's how he got involved. He approached them and got a tryout and made the team - four years ago."
He fit right in with the American Bobsledders, and spent the four years since competing all across North America, from the team base at Lake Placid.
Moriarity's trek culminates at The Whistler Sliding Centre in Vancouver on the 26th, as the Brake Man for USA sled number three. His parents and three sisters will be there, along with two other Ohio families, also cheering on offspring competing in this year's games.
That includes a caravan of 16 people rooting for Brianne McLaughlin, a graduate of Elyria Catholic High School, and the daughter of Susan and Brian McLaughlin of Sheffield. Brianne is on the U.S. women's hockey team...top ranked in the world at the moment. She's 22, started skating at age four - and her mother says she soon found her niche, when she tried out as a goal-keeper.
SUSAN McLAUGHLIN:
"Most of the kids didn't like it, and she did. So she got the net; and never left. She was five years old and has always been in the net."
The women's first game is Valentine's Day against China, but McLaughlin - looking ahead at two weeks of games - thinks she already knows who'll be in the final event.
SUSAN McLAUGHLIN:
"it's gonna be incredible, with the venue we're at in Canada, filled with Canadians, and its' their number one sport there..... it's gonna boil down to Canada and the U-S."
Also on the U-S women's hockey team will be Kelli Stack of Brooklyn Heights. She's a graduate of Cuyahoga Heights High School and Boston College, and a two-time member of the U.S. Women's National Team. She'll be playing forward.