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“It’s a peaceful freedom to just be,” Brenna Huckaby says as she imagines snowboarding, the fresh snow crunching beneath her as she glides down the mountain. Two months out from her third Paralympic Games, Huckaby sits on Zoom in her Montana home with her cat, Mouse, curled up beside her. She’s wearing a red knit sweater with her purple hair tied back in a ponytail, but in her mind, she’s out on the slopes in full snowboarding gear.
It’s this ability to let go and embrace the experience that has helped the 30-year-old become the most decorated Paralympic snowboarder in history — a three-time gold medalist with five World Championships to her name. As she gears up for Milano Cortina in March, where she’ll compete in snowboard cross and banked slalom, Huckaby is leaning into calm, collected energy to get her mindset right. “It’s crazy because this is probably the busiest I’ve ever been,” she says. “But I feel more grounded and ...
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