Olympic gold medalist and former University of Oregon student Ashton Eaton will go before the Oregon State Senate on Thursday and thank them for supporting the Olympic Trials in Eugene last summer, The Associated Press reported this morning. He is slated to speak for 30 minutes.

Eaton set a decathlon world record at the trials and went on to win the gold in decathlon at the 2012 London Olympics. 

He graduated from Mountain View High School in Bend.