Sarah Burke is a Canadian freesyle skier, born in 1982 in Ontario, Canada, into a family of skiers, so practically the snow was her second home. Little did her family know back then that their little blonde girl would pave the way for women skiers and change the way this sport is looked at forever.

She was raised in Midland, Canada, so she started skiing when she was only a little girl. Then, at only 15, she started to compete on moguls and traveled across North America with her Ontario ski team. While doing all this traveling, she noticed that a new sport was born: Freeskiing. She was so excited by all the stunts and the tricks that she saw, that it did not take her long to abandon the world of moguls and to start concentrating on this sport. In only two years, Sarah was becoming the world’s first competitive female Freeskier.

By 2001 she mastered Superpipe and Slopestyle and she already had a silver and a gold medal in the U.S. Open. Then she became the first and only woman to land a 1080-degree spin in competition and she won eight Gold Medals and five Silver Medals. Sarah’s performances were nationally recognized when she won back-to-back People’s Choice Awards for Female Skier of the Year in 2001 and 2002. her performances continue to surprise everyone even now.

This is the story of a girl who became the world’s champion at freeskiing in only 6 years and who had the courage to face a sport dominated by men. She is an innovative spirit and an incontestable presence of the sport called freeskiing. Sarah Burke is not even 20 years old, but she is a ski superstar and I am sure that she will keep this statute for a very long time.