My First Personal Descent of the Year!
January 18, 2011 by wwkayakfamily
Filed under Kayaking
Last week I was able to do a personal first decent, my first one for the year! It was E to P on the South Yuba River near Nevada City, Ca. It is a class 4 river and it was lots of fun and had a couple a really cool boofs. My favorite rapids were called Corner Pocket, and Door #3. The water was a little low but perfect for my first run, and the weather was perfect and sunny. The next day, we ran over to the NF of the American and ran Chamberlain Falls, a river that I had run for the first time last year. Once again we had beautiful weather and I had a great time. My favorite rapid on Chamberlain is called Bogus Thunder. It has a really fun ferry and a couple of holes you have to punch. Unfortunately, no one had a camera so I don’t have any pictures. It is starting to cool down in California and Nevada again, but there is always a river running somewhere. See you on the river, Sage
Fundraising earrings for American Whitewater!
January 11, 2011 by wwkayakfamily
Filed under In The News
This Christmas I decided I wanted to do a fundraiser for one of my favorite charities, American Whitewater! I decided making earrings would be a fun way to make holiday gifts and sold them throughout Carson City, Reno, and all over the country! I tried to only use natural rocks and wood to emphasize the river, so I used lots of turquoise, obsidian, jasper, jades and wood beads. On Christmas Eve, I sent AW a donation of $420 from the sale of earrings, and since then, I have raised over $100 more to donate this month! I am having so much fun doing this that I plan on taking them on the road with me this summer and selling them at river events for American Whitewater. Thanks to everyone who purchased earrings, and glad they made it through the mail safely- hope you enjoy them. Drop me a line if you see anything your interested in.
I learned to loop!
January 2, 2011 by wwkayakfamily
Filed under In The News, Kayaking, Uncategorized
Just click the link below to watch my video!
My 2010 year end review!
January 2, 2011 by wwkayakfamily
Filed under In The News, Kayaking, Uncategorized
It has been an incredible year for me! I accomplished most of my goals for 2010 including completing my loop and competing in the Junior Olympics where I won 5 gold medals and I became the Cub Cadet National Slalom Champion. I also run more class 4 rivers and worked hard to support American Whitewater and Outdoor Nation as a good ambassador.
2010 Whitewater Accomplishments
Kern River Festival, 1st. in Jr. Women’s Slalom, 2nd. in Women’s Extreme Creek Race, 2nd. in Women’s Extreme Slalom Race, 1st. in Women’s Triple Crown
Cache Creek, 1st in Jr. Slalom
Reno River Festival. 2nd. in Jr. Freestyle
Truckee River Race, 1st. in Jr. Slalom
Auburn River Festival, 1st. Jr. Freestyle, 1st. Jr. Slalom
Yampa River Festival, 1st in Jr. open Freestyle, 2nd. in Jr Freestyle, 2nd. in Jr. Women’s Slalom
Teva Mountain Games, 12th in Women’s Freestyle, only cadet competitor
Lyons River Festival, 2nd in Cadet Slalom, 2nd in Cadet Freestyle
FibArk River Festival, 1st Cadet. Freestyle, 1st. Cadet. Slalom
American River Festival, 1st Cadet Freestyle, 1st Cadet Slalom
Mokelumne River Festival, 1st Cadet Down River Race, 1st Cadet Slalom
Age Group National Slalom Championship., 1st Cub-Cadet
Junior Olympics, 5 Gold Medals and 2 first places (non-sanctioned event) in Women’s Cub Cadet Category, 1st. Slalom, 1st. Sprint Slalom, 1st. Boatercross, 1st. Down River Sprint, 1st. Down River Race, 1st. C2 Slalom, 1st. Freestyle.
I was able to travel all over the nation this year and ran several new class 4 rivers including The Tellico, Youghiogheny, Cheat, New River, and the Ocoee, as well as the Nantahala and the Potomac rivers in the east, and Pauley Creek, Brush Creek, the Kaweaha, and the NF of the American, as well as my first over night self support kayak trip on class 4 Deer Creek. in the west.
Off River I spoke to 150 middle school students about river careers on Career Day in Reno, Nv. and to 100 4th and 5th graders in Sacramento, Ca. about getting outside and enjoying the outdoors, but especially kayaking!
Goals for 2011
I hope to continue competing and defend my Jr. Olympic and National titles and learn more freestyle tricks including Cartwheels, Backloops and Spacegodzillas. I also hope to run as many rivers as possible and be a good ambassador for AW and Outdoor Nation.