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Brave enough / Jessie Diggins with Todd Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]Description: xiii, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781517908195
  • 1517908191
  • 9781517908201
  • 1517908205
Subject(s):
Contents:
Snow Baby -- Wild Child -- Super Speed -- Thunder Bay -- The Stillwater Way -- Pain Cave -- The Great Balancing Act -- To Ski or Not to Ski -- Slow Spiral -- The Emily Program -- Never Alone -- Blood, Sweat, and Tears -- The National Team -- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles -- From Sochi, with Love -- Give It All You Got -- Because 96 Isn't 100 -- Know When to Fold 'Em -- PyeongChang -- Brave Hearts -- Let's Go Get It -- One Team -- Here Be Dragons -- Coming Home; or, The Week I Masqueraded As a Rock Star.
Summary: "In her new memoir Brave Enough, 2018 Olympic Gold Medalist Jessie Diggins shares her story for the first time. The core of Brave Enough traces her amazing journey from the heartland of the United States into the history books of sports. The memoir details her childhood in Afton, Minnesota (an idyllic small town nestled in a virtual snow globe), her meteoric rise as an elite youth athlete (she turned pro straight out of high school), and her dazzling athletic achievements on the world stage (she is a four time World Championship medalist and one of the most decorated women's winter athletes of all time). She also addresses important, personal issues like the importance of girls participation in sports. Diggins is also one of the most outspoken athletes that is stepping up to bring awareness to global climate change. Diggins also shares at length, for the first time, about her personal struggle with a serious eating disorder that nearly killed her"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography Diggins, J. D573 Available 33111009605409
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America's heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter



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. The 26-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 12-year-old who had 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 the true story of her journey from the American Midwest into sports history. With candid charm and characteristic grit, she connects the dots from her free-spirited upbringing in the woods of Minnesota to racing in the bright spotlights of the Olympics. Going far beyond stories of races and ribbons, she describes the challenges and frustrations of becoming a serious athlete; learning how to push through and beyond physical and psychological limits; and the intense pressure of competing at the highest levels. She openly shares her harrowing struggle with bulimia, recounting both the adversity and how she healed from it in order to bring hope and understanding to others experiencing eating disorders.

Between thrilling accounts of moments of triumph, Diggins shows the determination it takes to get there--the struggles and disappointments, the fun and the hard work, and the importance of listening to that small, fierce voice: I can do it. I am brave enough.

Snow Baby -- Wild Child -- Super Speed -- Thunder Bay -- The Stillwater Way -- Pain Cave -- The Great Balancing Act -- To Ski or Not to Ski -- Slow Spiral -- The Emily Program -- Never Alone -- Blood, Sweat, and Tears -- The National Team -- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles -- From Sochi, with Love -- Give It All You Got -- Because 96 Isn't 100 -- Know When to Fold 'Em -- PyeongChang -- Brave Hearts -- Let's Go Get It -- One Team -- Here Be Dragons -- Coming Home; or, The Week I Masqueraded As a Rock Star.

"In her new memoir Brave Enough, 2018 Olympic Gold Medalist Jessie Diggins shares her story for the first time. The core of Brave Enough traces her amazing journey from the heartland of the United States into the history books of sports. The memoir details her childhood in Afton, Minnesota (an idyllic small town nestled in a virtual snow globe), her meteoric rise as an elite youth athlete (she turned pro straight out of high school), and her dazzling athletic achievements on the world stage (she is a four time World Championship medalist and one of the most decorated women's winter athletes of all time). She also addresses important, personal issues like the importance of girls participation in sports. Diggins is also one of the most outspoken athletes that is stepping up to bring awareness to global climate change. Diggins also shares at length, for the first time, about her personal struggle with a serious eating disorder that nearly killed her"-- Provided by publisher.

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