The Kelly Clark Foundation’s provides today’s youth with the resources and opportunities to attend mountain schools and pursue their dreams in snowboarding. We provide scholarships to youth with financial need, through snowboarding events and generous sponsorship. The Kelly Clark Foundation realizes that key to success starts with the opportunity to follow your dreams and we aim to give every kid the opportunity to make his or her dreams a reality. 

I grew up in a small mountain town in southern Vermont, where as a child, every free moment was spent on the mountain.  I started skiing when I was two and was snowboarding by the age of seven. As I was about to start high school, an amazing opportunity arose for me to attend Mount Snow Academy.  This was a great opportunity, and a turning point for my career in snowboarding. By attending a mountain school I was able to snowboard on a daily basis and pursue my snowboarding dreams while still completing my studies. After enrolling in school, I started to compete in local events on the weekends, which led to national events, and eventualy to international competitions. By the time I was in 11^th grade, I had joined the US Snowboard team and was pursuing my dreams to the fullest extent. The year after I graduated high school, I competed in 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City winning the Gold Medal in Women’s Halfpipe. Throughout the course of my career I have won every major event in snowboarding, have had the amazing opportunities to work with companies and campaigns around the globe and am currently in pursuit of another Olympic medal. When looking back on my career and life path I keep coming back to the amazing opportunity I had has a teenager to attend a mountain school and put all my energy into snowboarding. It is my intention with the Kelly Clark Foundation to give back, and see others have the same opportunities that I have had; and I am looking forward to watching their dreams come true.