“I want to be known as someone who works hard and succeeds on my own merits,” she says. “I want nothing handed to me, I have to succeed on my own and that means changing a lot of things.” - Stefanie
when it comes to the women in her life. “I love all the people in my family but I have a special relationship with my mother Suzanne, my sister Alexis and my grandmother, Mormor, who are the most important people to me, I find them fascinating. My sister makes me laugh to the point of grabbing my side and falling on the floor sometimes. The balance they bring to my life is extraordinary! We spend a lot of time together and Mormor comes to the shows with me when she can.”
to make her own way in the sport. “I want to be known as someone who works hard and succeeds on my own merits,” she says. “I want nothing handed to me, I have to succeed on my own and that means changing a lot of things.” When asked the hardest thing for her, her answer was extremely
pensive and heartfelt. “Learning to let go of the ‘security guard with you all the time’ image people remember. It’s been hard learning to get past what people see you as. That is all people knew of our family and me for so long and I want to change that. My life was pretty controlled and now I strive to be my own person, I insist on making my own way now.” “I work to create that one minute in the show ring to see what we
can do, that’s what is worth it. That minute can either be the longest or the shortest minute of the day but it is actually just a reminder. A reminder and/or a wakeup call to tell you how you are doing in the sport. When things go right you feel you are making progress and when things go wrong you go back to the drawing board.” The most surprising trait in this young lady was a sincere emotion
She is fiercely private and unbelievably sensitive. When iJump
asked what makes her cry, we were simply not prepared for her answer nor the emotion attached. “The sadness of women being helpless, I cannot even imagine. The greatest abuse of human rights is the human trafficking for sex issue. I am proud of the way the US handles it compared to other countries, what a terrible way for women to live in fear. For young girls to be so frightened of being kidnapped and sold into the sex trade. I cry about that for them!” As life moves forward for this young professional she is committed to
her independence and standing on her own. She insists emphatically that her greatest accomplishment in life is working hard to make her way and doing it on her own.
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