Title: Brave Enough Year: 2020 Author: Jessie Diggins (With Todd Smith) Genre: Biography Published by: University of Minnesota Press Pyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the nerve-racking final seconds of the women's team sprint freestyle race, Jessie Diggins dug deep. Blowing past two of the best sprinters in the world, she stretched her ski boot across the finish line and lunged straight into Olympic immortality: the first-ever cross-country skiing gold medal for the United States at the Winter Games. Twenty-six-year-old Diggins, a four-time World Championship medalist, was literally a world away from the small town of Afton, Minnesota, Where she first strapped on skis. Yet for all her history-making achievements, she had never strayed far from the scrappy twelve-year-old who has insisted on portaging her own canoe through the wilderness, yelling happily under the unwieldy weight on her shoulders, "Look! I'm doing it!" In Brave Enough, Jessie Diggins reveals th
Photo: fiba.com "Jacki Gemelos is the epitome of resilience. Widely regarded as the top recruit in the nation in high school, Gemelos has overcome a number of knee injuries throughout her college career at USC to go on to be drafted in the third round of the 2012 WNBA Draft by the Minnesota Lynx. Despite her injuries, sustaining 5 ACL tears in 6 years, Gemelos remained one of the most skilled players in the game, won a gold medal with Team USA at the 2011 World University Games and is a former National Player of the Year and McDonald’s All-American. Jacki continues to play overseas and will be playing in Greece for the 2019-2020 season" That's the Jacki Gemelos bio you can read when you enter on her website www.jackigemelos.com . Jacki is one of the most inspiring basketball players that I know. I had listened before about her, but I could know better her story when she joined Perfumerías Avenida, a Spanish team, in 2015. She was part of the Chicago Sk