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🇺🇸Here’s our third story on Utah Olympic athletes about our favorite flyer @schendrickson ski jumper from Park City🎿 Earning a spot on her second Olympic team was the highlight of the 23-year-old’s season. It’s been a long, difficult road for Sarah, from that brilliant afternoon during the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Games to the mountains of Pyeongchang, South Korea. The 23-year-old's affection for ski jumping was born that afternoon with her father, but, as she aged, it became a much more complicated relationship, fraught with the kind of frustration and heartbreak that requires a level of grit and commitment so intense, it could only be from a deep, abiding love. When she burst onto the scene as an adorable, dimpled, Park City High student, she seemed destined to be a force in the sport. Hendrickson was consistently among the world’s best. At 17, she won her first ever World Championship, although six months later she tore her ACL on a training jump a day after recording her personal ...

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