“Hardest thing I’ve had to go through are my injuries. Injuries suck, seriously, especially when they don’t get any better. Minor injuries take weeks or a month and they suck but you get back. I’ve had long term ones though
“I got into paddling because I needed a summer activity for my parents to put me in, I was about 12. I’ve been paddling for 15 years now, on and off. I love racing, everything’s about the race, which is
“Today, it was just a regular day at work, I get a lot of joy and enjoyment out of my ‘after my job’, my job doesn’t define who I am and today was a bit of a challenge and when
“I definitely workout to feel better in the day to day and my husband and I are big snow mobilers, dirt bikers and snowboarders so that’s a big motivation always looking forward to the next winter. One of the goals
“I’ve been training with Liam for a year since he took over the gym and I always loved weight training, I did it all through high school as an extra curricular class and then I kind of fell off the
“Being an athlete myself I wanted to help other athletes achieve their fullest potential and be the best athlete they can be and while becoming a life long athlete and pursuing fitness through the rest of their journey. Having played
“My happiest moment started with a sad moment. My first Senior Nationals, our first time out there, we’ve never done a Senior Nationals before and me and my partner Troy were skating our short program. We were about 2/3 of
“One of the hardest things I’ve gone through was stopping skating and the injury. It’s one of the hardest things. It’s not fun having to stop when you’re injured but at least when you are injured there’s always a possibility
“I think a lot of people struggle with this and I’ve talked to a few skaters recently who have stopped skating. I’ve actually reached out to them and be like ‘hey how are you’ because when I stopped skating it
“Being injured, being in that position and being overwhelmed with your injury and not knowing what to do, having been in that mindset and that feeling pushes me to able to help people in that position. I see people struggling