Event Info
The community is invited to join Routt County Extension, Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, and the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum for an evening with Hunter Kemper.
Hunter Kemper is a four-time member of the USA Olympic triathlon team, he is one of only two men in the world to qualify for every Olympic triathlon (2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012). Kemper has won seven USA Triathlon Elite National Championships. In 2005, he became the first U.S. male triathlete to finish the season ranked No. 1 in the world and was selected as the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee Sportsman of the Year, joining the ranks of Olympic legends such as Michael Phelps and Michael Johnson. That year, he also received the prestigious Jim Thorpe All-Around Award. Other career highlights include earning the gold medal at the Pan Am Games (2003) and gracing the cover of a Wheaties cereal box four times.
Hunter is the athlete ambassador for the award-winning resiliency program, Becoming Your Personal Best: Life Lessons from Olympians and Paralympians, out of the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum. He will speak about his journey as an athlete and his powerful story of resiliency, sharing important lessons he has learned about setting goals, meeting personal challenges, growing through failure, and developing a positive mindset.