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Utah adaptive snowboarders take first and second in Austria

Michele Roepke
Dec 26, 2021

Para alpine snowboarding Photo: International Paralympic Committee

AUSTRIA — Brenna Huckaby, two-time PyeongChang Paralympic gold medalist, took first place in her snowboarding race on December 18 in Austria and Brittani Coury, PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic silver medalist, came in second in her race at the third para snowboard world cup of the year in Hochfuegen, Austria.

Photo: Team Utah Snowboarding (Facebook)

Huckaby, a lower limb amputee, graduated from Jordan High School in Sandy, Utah, and Coury, a registered nurse, and a below-the-knee (BK) amputee is from Colorado.

They both compete in the discipline of para-alpine snowboarding in banked slalom and boardercross representing Team Utah Snowboarding.

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I've lived in Park City for 30 years but right off the starting line, my journalism professors expressed plaudits after class for writing more so about the small-town sports in the surrounding mountains than the urban updates they assigned. Therefore, I’m on par punning and penning Parkites' pastimes. Turning high and early through my career, I’ve worked communications for The Olympics, the Paralympics and the Special Olympics. Additionally, there's been National Geographic, Patagonia, NCAA, USA Nordic and the United States Library of Congress, so I guess you could say this ain't my first rodeo.

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