Alexa Loo started snowboarding at age 15. When she was 21 years old she started racing. She also worked as an accountant but the mountains were the most important dream of hers. She decided that she was never going to give up. In 2002 she missed qualifying for the Winter Olympics by 11-hundredths of a second. She was the first Canadian woman to complete in parallel giant slalom. She got so close to winning until she fell with only four gates remaining. She ended with 20th.
It all went downhill from there. She tore a knee ligament in 2007 and it made her change the way she raced. In 2008 she lost her financing. She would have to finish in the top 16 to qualify for her 18,000 dollar stipend from Sport Canada.
Loo decided that she needed to tell her story better. When she tried doing that she got more and more famous. Now she tells her story along with the Kin brothers who were in a situation similar to hers. Loo goes around to schools and teaches them about determination and how you can do anything if you don’t give up. Even though Loo didn’t get to do her dream before she tore her knee ligament, she still goes snowboarding for fun and enjoys talking to kids and encouraging them.
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