Local Snowboarder Hannah Teter To Shred For Charity
Story by Joe Milliken, Editor
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:07 PM for The Message
Local snowboarding legend Hannah Teter, a Belmont–native and Olympic gold medal champion in the half pipe, recently announced that she will donate all her snowboard earnings from the upcoming season to her charity, Hannah's Gold, and the organization World Vision.
The former Black River High School and
Okemo Mountain School graduate, has competed in such national and world events (and won a few) as the Winter X Games, Grand Prix, U. S. Open, Worlds, Winter Gravity Games and of course, the 2006 Winter Olympics in which she won her gold medal.
Through the world charity organization World Vision, sales from Hannah's Gold helps provide funds to sponsor Kirindon, a town of 56,000 people in Kenya.
The idea to donate her earnings came while Hannah was rehabilitating from a serious knee injury after the Winter Olympic Games in 06’.