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All photos Mike Redwood
Dara Howell, a grade 12 student at
Huntsville High School, has her sights set
on the 2014 Olympics Winter Games in
the Freestyle Ski disciplines of Slopestyle
and Half Pipe.
In less than a year, Dara has transitioned
from a rookie in the sport to one of the top
ten women in the world. At the end of the
season last year, she was ranked 6th overall
by the Association of Freeskier Professionals.
She has a gruelling season that starts
in August in New Zealand and ends in
April in Whistler, British Columbia. Training
is on-going with much of the off-snow
training happening here in Huntsville and
Muskoka. Workouts and personal training
happen at FITT Gym & Personal Training
Studio and nutrition at The Sport Lab, both
in Huntsville, and trampoline takes place in
Bracebridge. On-hill training will take place
at Whistler in late June, on the Horstman
Glacier in early July, then in Breckenridge,
Colorado in December. On top of all this,
she continues to keep up her studies at
Huntsville High School.
One of her life goals was to be invited
to the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado
happening January 26-29, 2012 and Dara
received her invite on January 4, 2012.
With a few competitions already under her
belt, she is ready to compete and hopes
to finish the season with an invite to the
Canadian Freestyle Team and the chance
to earn a spot on the 2014 Olympic team.
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