March 14, 2026
Avery Hemmer: How A 14-Year-Old Became A Six-Time Champion In Snowcross
At just 14 years old, Avery Hemmer is already a six-time champion and currently leading the Pro Women Snowcross points standings. From racing at age six in Minnesota to flying across North America for national competitions, Avery shares what it takes physically, mentally, and financially to compete at the highest level. She talks fitness, family sacrifice, social media branding, racing against boys, and why she encourages girls to get in the gym and chase big dreams.
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00:02 - Welcome And Show Mission
01:01 - Meet Avery Hemmer
02:40 - Origins In Snowcross
04:25 - Training And Mental Game
06:28 - Tracks, Travel, And Weather
09:04 - Number Choice And Race Weekends
11:15 - Championships And Points
13:28 - Costs, Sacrifice, And Family Support
15:16 - Future Goals And Women In Racing
17:08 - Fitness, Safety, And Social Media
18:34 - Where To Watch And How To Follow
20:00 - Encouraging Girls And Closing
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Let's hit the track.
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Hello everyone.
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This is Melinda Russell with the Women's Motorsports Network Podcast.
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And my guest today is Avery Hemmer.
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And Avery, I want to welcome you to the show.
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And the first thing I want to do, which is what I always do, is ask you to share a little bit about yourself because I want my listeners to get to know who you are outside of racing.
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So tell me about yourself.
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Yeah, thank you for having me.
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My name is Avery Hemer.
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I currently race Snowcross and I'm in the Pro M Women class.
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I'm from Elk River, Minnesota.
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And have one sister, my mom and dad always supporting me.
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And yeah.
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And do you go to high are you in high school or are you homeschooled?
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Yeah, I'm I go to Elk River High School.
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I'm a freshman.
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Okay.
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And what do your friends think about you racing snow cross?
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Do they understand about it or are they clueless?
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There's very few that completely understand it, but I mean some of them just kind of think you're just riding around on a flat track, nodding your head, just kind of put your bridle.
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Right.
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Yeah, for sure.
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And do you have any pets?
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I do have one, or I have two dogs now, Kobe and Champ.
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Okay.
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We love our dogs, don't we?
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I have a dog too, so awesome.
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So Avery, you're 14, almost 15 years old.
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How did you get started in motorsports?
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My dad and my uncle raced a little bit.
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We are really close to a track called ERX in Elk River, right in our hometown.
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And we just go watch a couple times, and I started riding around in my yard, and my dad was super into it still, and he wanted to do it with me.
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So we started out on little sleds and eventually we got into the champ class.
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My dad was very into that.
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So how old were you when you first started?
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I think I was six years old.
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Okay.
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Alright.
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So you've been doing it a few years.
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So you started on a small, smaller snowmobile, and then and so you've been racing ever since you were six years old?
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Yeah, I have been.
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We kind of just started out with like the regional series, and then I think about seven, I started racing a couple nationals, and then yeah, just kind of kept going from there.
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Moved up from there, right?
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Yeah.
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So what's been your biggest success as far as being in the motor sports?
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Obviously, like winning races is always fun, but just like being able to look back and see where I came from is like it's amazing to me.
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Like, just like a little six-year-old and you would have never thought like we'd be here now.
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Yeah.
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And you you probably never dreamed that you'd be where you are now, but yeah, for sure.
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Yeah, for sure.
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So, what what do you credit that to?
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Hard work, you you have some natural ability, your dad's a great coach.
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How did how did you get from that little six-year-old girl to where you are now?
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Just putting in work.
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I have a trainer now.
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I work out like probably three days a week.
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Just being on the sled as much as I can and just mentally being able to like be successful and not have like a mental game, I guess, just yeah, and having the drive to want to go win every race.
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You know, the mental part is a big part of it, isn't it?
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Yes.
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Yeah, it is.
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So how do you how do you stay focused and and in a good mental space to be a successful racer?
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I honestly like don't think about it too much.
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Just I don't know, I just try to be as locked in as I can as soon as I get to the line or whatever it is.
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Okay.
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Was there ever a time when you came, you know, because let's face it, every race is not the best race.
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We don't win every one of them.
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So was there ever a moment when you came off the the track and said, Nope, I'm done, I can't do this anymore?
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Or have you always just persevered and kept going?
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Yeah, there's there's been a few times, especially this my rookie season of my off-road my prospect season was last year.
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Just trying to figure out the truck and like just how it all works is super hard, and we're still learning this year.
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We're gonna still be learning, but yeah, just coming off the track and not having the result that we want, but just keep pushing through it and we know we'll get there.
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Well, and you know, if you gave up every time you had some adversity, you wouldn't be where you are today.
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Correct.
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Yeah, right.
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Yeah.
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So what's your favorite part about riding a sled, driving a sled?
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Just I mean, I'm super competitive and like I don't know, it's I don't know, like getting to ride a different track every weekend, and yeah, it's now I'm on a faster sled in the Pro Immin class, so being able to get over the jumps is a lot a lot more fun.
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Yeah, that has to be fun going over the jumps for sure.
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Yeah.
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Do you have a favorite track?
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So far this year, all of them have been pretty good.
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We're getting lucky with snow this year.
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This weekend, this weekend we're in New York right now.
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It might get a little rain.
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The track might be a little bit wet, but they seem to have a lot of snow, so hopefully we can maintain it.
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But I think the race in Shakapee, Minnesota, that both of them were pretty good.
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We had to reschedule from Deadwood, South Dakota to go to there again.
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So both day or both weekends there were good.
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I mean, all the tracks so far have been good.
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I've last last weekend we were in Valcourt, Quebec, Canada.
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Okay.
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Yeah, this they have a ton of snow always, and the track was deep and it was a little bit icy, but yeah, all the tracks have been super fun this year.
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Yeah, we've had a lot of snow.
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I live in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and I had about 10 inches of snow, but now looking out here today, I have no snow, even where it was kind of piled up, the snow's gone because it's we've had a warm spell and then we had a little bit of rain.
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And so hopefully where you're at, you've still got a lot of snow, and it's cold enough that the racing's gonna be good this weekend.
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Yeah, I think it I think the track should stay pretty decent, but back home we definitely have lost quite a bit of snow in Minnesota.
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Yeah, well, I know I know winter's not over, but I think the big snowfalls hopefully are probably over at least.
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I'm hoping so.
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But not you're you probably love to see the snow falling because of the freezing.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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If it could stay cold and we can we could just blow some snow, but can't quite do that.
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No, I think it's supposed to be 60 something here in Michigan today, so that wouldn't even work the for the snow.
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So what is your sled number and how did you choose it?
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Well, from day one I started out as 415.
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That's my birthday.
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And in off-road, and I started out in mod carts, which that number had to start with a two, so that became 215.
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Then I moved to ProSpec, which had to be two digits, and then I changed it to 15, and then just to keep like my branding, I just changed my snow cross number to 15 too.
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Okay, all right, easier overall.
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Yeah, so a good day at the racetrack.
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So I know you usually, so you said you were in New York already, and it is Wednesday.
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So you obviously have to leave school and and head out early on race weekend.
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So tell me how what does that look like?
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When do you leave?
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How does your rate what does your race weekend look like?
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So a normal race weekend depends on like the location, obviously, but usually I stay try to stay in school until Thursday, leave Thursday.
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If if we can drive or we can fly, like just depends on the distance, but usually we'll leave Thursdays, and then there's a race Friday and a race Saturday this weekend.
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Last week in Valcorta is a little bit different, I think, because of just like travel.
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But we had a practice day on Friday, race, Saturday, Sunday.
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Okay, and we have to fly out to that one.
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Okay, so if you fly, then how does your sled get there?
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We have a truck driver, Matt.
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He drives our semi.
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We have a team, Hammer Motorsports.
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My cousin Lila races, and we have a pro light rider also.
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Okay, so you put all the sleds in the truck, and the guy drives it, and then you guys fly.
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So that's that's good because that saves a lot of wear and tear on you guys riding in the car for sure.
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Yeah.
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So what's been your greatest accomplishment or the thing that maybe your your best memory from all your racing?
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I don't know, just like like I said before, like just like seeing seeing myself here now, and like being it like I've won five championships throughout this whole journey, and I hope there's more to come, but that's what I was looking for for you to tell me about your championships.
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Yes.
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So tell me tell me a little bit about those.
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How do you win a championship in uh in sledding?
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So I first started out on them little sleds and them the 120 champ class.
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So basically each race you get points, and whoever ends with the most points is the champion in the end, and I ended up winning three in that, and then it's the same thing for off-road, it's points.
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And I have one championship in the mod cart class, and then from the champ class, I moved up to Big Sled 600R.
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It's limited in the junior classes, so we have like half dotdle limited RPMs, and same thing goes with that points.
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I won two championships in the junior girls class, so actually six championships now, I guess.
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Yeah, it's hard to keep track when you win so many of them, Avery.
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So how long have you how long has your season been going in the this year?
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When did you start?
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This snow season we started early December, and then the next race was pretty much after Christmas break.
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Yeah.
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And then when when are you done?
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April?
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Can you raise that for April?
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Yeah, okay.
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And so if you're earning points now, where do you stand in the points right now?
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I am first in points right now, and when you're first in points, you run the red plates in the process, so that's that's I think it everything's going good right now.
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Yeah, sounds like it.
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Keep charging for the first place, I guess.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So do you race you're in the women's class, you race pretty much against the same women every time, isn't that correct?
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Yep, yeah.
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Yep, everybody goes to yep.
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Yeah, I'm losing you a little bit, so um, just so you know, you're kind of going in and out.
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So, what do you think that people don't understand about the sacrifices that you make to race?
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If you had to, you know, explain it to people.
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They especially people that just you know are casual, casual spectators, you know, they come to the race and they watch and they go home.
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But what does it take on your part and your family's part, sacrifices for you to do this?
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Yeah, it's not cheap.
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My parents doing a lot of work and they miss work to be here and time, yeah, just like working out, like I said, just putting in all the hard work, and there's just a lot that goes into it, I guess.
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There's there is like being at the distracted weekend, yeah.
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So, and especially you know, if you fly to a race, you've got airplane fees, three of you probably sure, a hotel, yeah, you're eating out, yeah.
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Yeah, so when people think about going on vacation and they think about what a weekend vacation would cost, it costs you that or more just to go, yeah, not to mention the fees to raise and the cost of the sled and all that, and so it's a huge sacrifice for both you and your parents.
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Why do you keep doing it?
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What what's the draw that keeps you guys involved in these races?
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Um I think just like being able to be successful, first of all.
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And it's just like just what we do, it's what our family does.
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Um, I don't think we would ever leave it anytime soon.
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Yeah.
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So you're 14.
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You see yourself racing for a long time, yeah.
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Yeah, I think uh pursuing like a driving sport would be like the better route just because there's more success that way.
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Like where I'm at now in Snow Cross, like this is the highest level, there's nothing more.
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Yeah.
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So if you went to a driving sport, what what would you do?
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I honestly don't know yet.
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There's there's a lot to figure out still, I think.
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Yeah, lots of options.
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So do you have whatever that help you like would like your sled?
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Yeah, we have we have two mechanics and our truck driver, everybody my dad.
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Yeah.
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Everybody kind of just around the trailer, I guess.
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And what about sponsors?
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Do you have any marketing partners that help you?
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Yeah, we have quite a few.
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Polarist is a pretty big one this year.
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Our pro light rider that's hurt right now.
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Northern Power Race Park, they own that.
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It's a track in Michigan, and um we have FXR, our gear, and then just like parts and stuff, like racing oils, maxima, uh chopper city, yeah, just like parts and stuff, I guess.
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Yeah, the other ones.
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So it take it takes a lot of help, not only from them, but I know your family, you know, puts money in too, so that's that's what it takes to stay on the track for sure.
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So do you ever feel pressure when you when you like get your sled?
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Do you feel pressure?
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Do you feel excitement?
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What what do you feel when you get in the sled?
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I think I feel pressure from myself nerves, obviously, every time.
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Just I think I just have expectations for myself and I want to achieve them.
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Yeah.
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So do you feel like Avery that you're a brand that you know Avery Hammer is a brand that uh, you know, you post on social media, people know who you are because you've won so many championships.
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Does that play into your racing at all?
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Yeah, I think posting on social media is a big part of it, and like just having fans is awesome.
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It's great to see like people come up to you and stuff and like know who you are.
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Yeah.
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Do you have do you have people that like especially I would think little girls come up to you at the races and want your autograph and want a picture with you, that kind of thing?
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Yeah, for sure.
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Honestly, what was surprising last weekend in Valcourt, there was quite a few girls that came into the trailer.
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That's quite the skidoo race there.
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And I was one of the only Polaris riders there that weekend.
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Okay, and so they they come and they they want us talk to you and and be, you know, like I said, get an autograph, that kind of thing.
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That's pretty cool, isn't it?
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Yeah, especially when you're only 14 years old, yeah.
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Yeah, for sure.
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So have you ever so when you first started, were you racing against boys or did you always race against girls?
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Yep, since day one until this year I've been racing against boys.
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So I raced that the little slides were all against boys, and then I raced a couple junior classes without girl or well girls could race it too, but it was just it was a mix, and then I raced junior girls too, which was all girls, and then now pro women, which is all women.
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All girls, yeah.
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And they're women of all ages.
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Yeah.
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So how how old is uh the people in your class?
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Anywhere from 14 above.
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I think the oldest is 20 something.
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Uh no.
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There's I don't know.
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There's a couple, there's a girl that came from she used to race.
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I don't know how old she is, but yeah.
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But they're not they're not all 14-year-olds, they're older than you.
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Right?
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All of them, maybe one is my age.
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Right.
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And so when you when you started out and you were racing against the boys, did you feel like you were accepted?
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They didn't really care whether you know that you were a girl or or were they always out to win and beat you?
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