Mackinzie Dickman is an adaptive athlete from Snowshoe Mountain, WV. She survived a traumatic car accident in 2017 leaving her with a rare Spinal Cord Injury called Syringomyelia from T5-T12 and a Traumatic Brain Injury. By 2019 she became a full time wheelchair user due to partial paralysis. She is an adaptive mountain biker, adaptive wakeboarder but her heart belongs to snow, as a sitskier. She learned to sitski with Challenged Athletes of West Virginia and is now training as professional para ski racer with the National Sports Center for the Disabled in Winter Park, CO. Mackinzie’s goal is to help make others more comfortable and aware of the disabled population, educate on the importance of disability rights and share that anyone can be an athlete.