Celebrate Sarah Forever
For the last month I’ve been anticipating this trip to Whistler to Celebrate Sarah Burke. I was not sure how it would feel to relive the emotions of such a great loss, to be reminded of this beautiful woman taken from us too soon. After 2 days dedicated to celebrating Sarah, I feel lucky to have had her in my life, even for the short 10 years that I knew her. There seemed to be an overlying theme of the past few days that WE are the lucky ones. We were lucky enough to have had Sarah impact our lives [...]
Don’t Let Your Dreams Define You
“Don’t run from your monsters because I hear they can heal you.” Jayson Haws The last 3 months have been the most challenging few months of my life. Without rehashing the details, but still informing new readers, I’ll catch you up. On January 10th I sustained a severe knee injury, a season ending and career threatening injury, and that same day, my friend, greatest idol and rival sustained a life ending injury. The following weeks and months were relentless. I endured surgery on my knee as numerous friends and teammates also sustained season ending knee injuries. Another friend was caught [...]