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Show SPORTS The Park Record. NORDIC JUNIORS KICK INTO HIGH GEAR, B-2 www.parkrecord.com Editor: Ben Ramsey sports@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15704 Twitter: @ParkRecSports BASEBALL LEGEND TO GIVE TALK, B-3 B-1 WED/THURS/FRI, JANUARY 23-25, 2019 Alpine skier ends her career where it started FIRST AID COURSE PC MARC is hosting a course in first aid, CPR and AED skills with certified National Safety Council instructors. The winter class is set for Monday, Jan. 28 from 5:30 to 10:00 p.m. Register online at parkcityrecreation. org or call 435-615-5400. The course meets national safety standards. SILVER SKI AND WINTER SPORTS EXTRAVAGANZA Basin Recreation’s Silver Ski and Winter Sports Extravaganza is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 2 from 10 a.m. to noon at Willow Creek Park. The event will include classic and skate skiing, snowshoeing, or fat tire biking options. Staff will be offering instruction for skiers, as well as ski, bike, and snowshoe tours. All ages and ability levels are welcome. Register in advance to reserve Nordic ski equipment provided by White Pine Touring for $5. Storm Cycles will provide a limited number of fat tire bikes for patrons to demo during the event. For more information and to reserve equipment, visit basinrecreation.org. SPRING YOUTH SOCCER Early bird registration for Park City Recreation’s Spring Youth Soccer League is now open. The league runs from April 17 to June 1 and is held at the Park City Sports Complex on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Players ages 4 to 11 welcome. Volunteer parent coaches will receive 50 percent discount on the program and a five-punch pass for the PC MARC. Registration is available online at parkcityrecreation.org or by calling 435-615-5400. Please see Sports briefs, B-4 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Stephani Victor comes around a gate during her first run in the Huntsman Cup’s super G competition on Park City Mountain’s PayDay run on Wednesday. The annual event features athletes from all over the globe competing in various divisions designated by ability. It was Victor’s final competition as a professional skier. After 20 years of alpine sit ski racing, Stephani Victor retires BY BEN RAMSEY The Park Record Stephani Victor is calling it quits. After 20 years of sit-ski alpine racing and earning four Paralympic medals, the Parkite competed in her last professional race – the National Ability Center’s Huntsman Cup, on Jan. 16-18 at Park City Mountain. Her career started after a car accident. At 10:04 p.m. on Dec. 19, 1995 Victor was hit by a distracted driver, her legs crushed between the front of the driver’s car and the back of her ex-boyfriend’s car. At that moment, her life was forever changed – to save her life, surgeons amputated her legs. But the course of her life was about to change again. In 1998, she came to Park City for the Sundance Film Festival, during which a friend was hosting a guerilla screening of a low-budget film she was in. When she got to Park City, she booked a sit-ski lesson at the National Ability Center, and tried sit-skiing for the first time. 942 N. Explorer Peak Dr. 5 Bedrooms | 6 Bath | 6,234 Sq. Ft. MLS 11805659 | $3,195,000 From the start she was ambitious, even listing “win a gold medal” as her goal on her evaluation sheet for her first-ever lesson. Her coach that day, Marcel Kounen, who is able bodied, looked at the sheet in the office, and wondered about who he would meet when he went out to coach her. He remembers that she was talented yet untrained, and also that she was beautiful – with light blond hair and blue eyes. “On the other hand, winning a gold medal is not a goal, you have to be specific about what gold medal you want to win,” he recalled saying to Victor. “So here is a goal: Olympics and Paralym- pics are coming here in 2002. Why don’t you write down winning a Paralympic gold medal?” On the slopes, Victor fell in love with the sport. She loved how different skiing was from her recent life experiences, how the slopes in Park City were nothing like the walls of her hospital rooms, and how much freedom she had while riding. Victor crossed out her original goal, and wrote in its place: “Winning a Paralympic gold medal.” From that day on, Victor was hooked. She came back to the NAC shortly after Sundance, and hired Kounen full time Please see Victor, B-4 1090 N. Oquirrh Mtn. Dr. 4 Bedrooms | 4 Bath | 4,217 Sq. Ft. MLS 11808257 | $1,795,000 Just minutes from downtown Park City, owners enjoy: RedLedges.com GOLF | TENNIS | EQUESTRIAN | DINING SWIM & FITNESS | SKI LOUNGE Chris Maddox (435) 657-4063 Chris.Maddox@RedLedges.com Exclusively Brokered by Red Ledges Realty, LLC . Obtain the Property Report required by federal law and read it before signing anything. 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