Support Paralympic Hopeful Kristine White
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About Me... Kristine
Para-Snowboard
When you think of snowboarding, Northwest Indiana probably isn't the first place that comes to mind. No mountains. No ski areas within 50 miles. That hasn't stopped Valparaiso resident Kristine White.
After a military injury left her told to expect limited physical activity, Kristine decided to rewrite that story. She rebuilt her fitness through para-cycling and para-triathlon, then went looking for something to do in the winter. In December 2012, Challenge Aspen Military Opportunities handed her a snowboard and changed everything. One week of falling, crashing, and getting back up again at the Women's Military Retreat, and she was hooked.
That first season, she trained at camps in Telluride and South Lake Tahoe. By the end of it, para-snowboard had been announced as a 2014 Paralympic sport.
What followed was a rapid climb: High Performance Camp at the Hartford Ski Spectacular, a Paralympic Development Camp at the National Ability Center, and eventually a spot on the National Sports Center for the Disabled Competition Center team, where she placed 2nd in the snowboard division at the Wells Fargo World Disabled Invitational.
What Northwest Indiana lacks in mountains, it makes up for in people willing to believe in something bigger. Kristine is proof of that.