2024 Champion
Our most recent Champion awarded Nov 2024
Our newest Lucky Racer Champion,, based in Fairbanks, Alaska, has been an active participant in Special Olympics since 2015, excelling in Alpine skiing and engaging in athletics, gymnastics, and starting golf in the summer of 2024. Despite injuries, including an ACL tear and ankle tendon injury, She displays resilience and bravery, returning to skiing after surgeries and rehabilitation. Named the Special Olympics Alaska Female Athlete of the Year in 2021 and earning a varsity letter in cheerleading, she demonstrates her commitment to excellence.
Outside of sports, She is an accomplished dancer, having performed internationally and at renowned venues like Disneyland and Universal Studios. Inspired by Lindsey Vonn, she embodies traits of hard work, strength and self-belief. As she prepares to represent Alaska, the United States and her family at the Special Olympics World Winter Games, She eagerly anticipates meeting new friends and showcasing her skills while staying active through skiing, dancing, biking and gym workouts.
2024 CHAMPION
Our biggest supporter of our Champions so we made her a Champion in 2024
She is our 2024 Lucky Racer Champion. She has been such a great supporter of all our champions it was an easy choice to make her a Champion too.
Her First Nastar Nationals 2024 Snowmass, CO
She skied to 7th place in the 10-11yr old GOLD group. Difficult warm conditions and a tough course set made for a tough day. Local kids who likely train on that tough hill had a big advantage. She will be working hard to step it up next year!
2025 - Jan 26th she wins “Princess” of the Hill at the annual Perfect North Slopes (Fastest under 18 female!) Wooo Hooo - That’s our Champion!
2023 CHAMPION
PROUD to INTRODUCE our 2023/2024 LUCKY RACER CHAMPION
THING IS She has been a CHAMPION way before LUCKY RACER.....She has been one of our number one cheerleaders for our Ambassadors, the program and her ski peers on and off the slopes! She is consistently striving to help other racers and has improved her own racing to a high level. We are excited to watch this aspiring Jr. Racer's journey! WATCH OUT...Mikaela Shriffin, you have a Speedy Gonzalez in the making....Soars with a loud ROAR!!
Her First Nastar Nationals 2024 Snowmass, CO
She really enjoyed racing at nationals. Having to wait until Friday to race proved challenging for a girl who couldn’t wait for her day to come. The course set proved challenging with a left footer for the fourth gate set atop a knoll that also fell away to skiers left. Unfortunately Friday was a hot day with a delayed start. By the third run when she figured out her line, the bottom half of the course couldn’t provide the speed it had promised the first two runs. After a long delay to salt the course all the racers determined that there was no more speed to be gleaned from the course. She was a little disappointed with her eleventh placed finish but after talking with coach Jim, coach Rob and her parents she realized she was the 3rd 10 year old in the 10/11 division and excited to return next year “older and wiser!”
2025 - Jan26th She raced her first USSA Race at Nubs Knob in Michigan and scored a win in Slalom!!! She had a very impressive 2025 season and is working hard to prepare for 2026 SEE MORE CURRENT RACE REPORTS HERE
2022 CHAMPION
PROUD to INTRODUCE our 2023 LUCKY RACER CHAMPION
We discovered him through the Kentucky Special Olympics Winter Games. He loves to ski and has mastered the most difficult level of Giant Slalom and Slalom. At 27, he is a strong athlete and powers through the most difficult conditions. We have spent many days on the slopes with him and none of us can ever remember him even loosing his balance or falling. He is a ROCK on skis! He doesn’t offer up much to say but when asked about skiing you always get a big smile and a positive answer.
2021 CHAMPION
She has made us proud, and is our Lucky Racer Ambassador!
A MODEL LUCKY RACER CHAMPION!
Her willingness to help others didn't go unrecognized. She was nominated by a teacher from her middle school faculty staff.
LUCKY RACER keeps the newspapers printing...She will be featured in the Connersville News Examiner!
She loves to ski as much as possible. Her 2022 season had 91 days on the snow! That's incredible for her and a testament to her VERY supportive parents!
Feb 4th 2024 she scored her biggest ski race win of her career at Perfect North’s King of the Hill race being the fastest kid and being crowned “Princess” of the Hill! Congrats! JShe also organizes a big effort to support our troops through operation “We Care”.
An amazing example of a true champion on and off the slopes!
Her First Nastar Nationals 2024 Snowmass, CO
She started the week with a 3rd place in the Silver/bronze Slalom… PODIUM!!!
The GS was a greater challenge with warm conditions and a tough course and she still managed to ski well into 5th place Gold division less than 2 seconds off the win. The warm conditions means you have to be fast on the first run but a difficult course took a few runs to figure out but by then big ruts had developed and a faster run was not possible. This is a lesson we have all learned at Nationals! Currently recovering from a knee injury, she still comes to the races to support her fellow racers.
2019 CHAMPION
2021 CHAMPION
He is quiet and races under the radar kind of racer. He will fly by and beat others without a trace but leave the race making the podium with First Place. 2020/21... He was recognized and awarded awarded as one of our NEW Champions, receiving his financial LUCKY RACER Junior Ski Racing Scholarship virtual style. Soon he will be surprised to receive his winnings and trophy via mail.
THANK YOU to the Perfect North Racing team and to two of our other LUCKY RACER Champions for presenting and cheering on his award(s).
2021 CHAMPION
He loves skiing and is an inspiration to many of his peers
He is without a doubt our biggest, larger than life personality. He has an infectious love of life that lights up every space he is in. His sense of humor knows no bounds… when asked about his special needs classification he responded “I check all the boxes”.
He is currently enrolled at NKU and is working hard to develop his skills. Surely one of Dolly Parton’s biggest fans, she is lucky to have his admiration and support.
2020 CHAMPION
Expect big things from this LUCKY RACER CHAMPION
She - was our 4th LUCKY RACER Champion and an accomplished racer with a true passion for the sport. She competed in the very competitive youth series USSA all over the midwest. At 16, she got a job at Ligety Weibrecht Ski Camp at Mt. Hood in Oregon as a counselor for two seasons. She graduated highschool with a 3.9 GPA where she developed a passion for chemistry and psychology. She is currently attending Ohio State University studying for a bachelor's of science in chemistry with a goal to receive a PhD in organic chemistry. A serious student in a very difficult major she has already pulled a 3.89 GPA in the autumn semester of 2023. She is a true champion on and off the slopes!
2018 CHAMPIONS
Two of our earliest LUCKY RACER CHAMPIONS - Making us proud
I BET YOU THOUGHT SKI RACERS only dreamed about ❄️ snow?? Maybe, most of the time...BUT not our two LUCKY RACER SIBLING CHAMPIONS !!
These racers have more energy than most do in a lifetime! he can jump tabletops and skim around curves on two tire turns faster than the fast & furious!
When watching her run 🏃♂️ her cross country races, you better quickly find your places....zoom, you missed her fly by! Always at the head of the pack! Now...she conquers all in her college halls!!
In memory of their father, both these racers held annual car 🚗 shows for Cancer Awareness. They may be flying high in the sky with four wheels and tackling classes, we are forever always PROUD of our CHAMPS who make forever impressionable stamps!!
2017 CHAMPION
Our very FIRST LUCKY RACER CHAMP awarded in 2017
Have you experienced a moment(s) in your life when you JUST KNEW you were supposed to be present, matter how crazy it sounds???!! It never gets too old to share the Lord's alignment & plan(s)!
While LUCKY RACER all started during a conversation under a butterfly tree, the Lord was already steps ahead planning the impact Landon's life will be on many to come! WHO KNEW??
Two months prior to Doug Lueke's (a beloved father/friend to many) passing, he and Landon engaged in a lengthy conversation over bowls of Ski Instructor, Shannon's chili. They were laughing and eating slope side at Perfect North Slopes in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
WITHOUT having any idea that LUCKY RACER would soon evolve, Doug told him he was PROUD of him and he will soon become a CHAMP! Without having any knowledge that this conversation even took place, YEP!...GUESS who was our FIRST LUCKY RACER CHAMP?
Thing is....because he turned his hardships & struggles inside out, his presence in our LUCKY RACER program has been an awe-inspiring ripple effect of making differences on and off the slopes!
LUCKY RACER
LUCKY RACER has awarded eleven CHAMPS with or without exceptional needs (adults & juniors)! All these Champs have been true testimonials of positive sportsmanship and making impacts throughout their
communities: testimonials in front of legislation, making proclamations, collecting donations for "Operation We Care," volunteering in animal shelters, attending college, competing in Special Olympics, USSA & Nastar Nationals, and soon Special Olympics World Games in Italy.
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