Get to Know Brenna Huckaby

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Rebel Girls

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids

4.5 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this interview we get to know snowboarder and mom to two rebel girls, Brenna Huckaby, who read us the story of Anne Wafula Strike! Brenna talks about her love of sports and how she discovered a passion for snowboarding after losing her leg to cancer. We also hear about how she’s raising her girls to be strong and confident. [This episode originally aired November 2020.]

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0:00.0	This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls.
0:07.0	What's up, Rebels?
0:10.0	What's up, Rebels?
0:12.0	This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, the interview. I'm Malaya.
0:17.0	Right now I'm talking to Brenna Huckaby, the narrator for our story about Anne Wufel a Strike.
0:23.0	Go check it out if you haven't already.
0:29.0	Hey Brenna, thanks for being here.
0:31.0	Can you introduce yourself?
0:33.0	My name is Brenna Huckaby. I'm a Paralympic snowboarder. I'm a mommy of two little rebel girls.
0:39.0	I'm a cancer survivor and
0:47.0	can you tell us a little bit about your journey as an athlete? I have been in sports since I was eight years old and I started in gymnastics.
0:51.0	It was my favorite sport and I absolutely loved what I did.
0:57.0	I had big goals in gymnastics to be a collegiate gymnast but unfortunately after a
1:02.4	cancer diagnosis that dream faded away.
1:06.0	In 2010 I was diagnosed with osteosarcoma bone cancer which resulted in an amputation
1:12.0	and gymnastics just wasn't the same after that.
1:16.6	After many years of trying new sports, I found snowboarding, which I absolutely loved, just as much as gymnastics.
1:24.4	Maybe a little more.
1:26.0	After a year of just playing around on my snowboard, a coach who had seen me
1:31.4	asked me if I wanted to compete, and I went to my first competition where I actually ended up on the podium and I was like, wow, I could actually be good at this.
1:41.0	From there, I decided Paralympics was my next journey I was going to take on and I dedicated
1:47.6	all of my time and effort for the next few years into potential success at the games.
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