Shilts Wins Gold At Winter X Games!
Friday, January 24th, 2020 -- 6:21 AM
Neillsville’s own Daina Shilts won a gold medal at the Winter X Games in the Special Olympics Unified Snowboarding in Aspen, CO, on Thursday.This is Shilts’ sixth time competing at the X Games.
Teams are comprised of one professional action sports athlete, including X Games and Olympic medalists, and one Special Olympics action sports athlete for a total of ten, two-person teams in snowboarding.
Shilts had a new partner this year as she was teamed with athlete Mike Schultz of St. Cloud, MN. According to the Hub City Times, Schultz is an above-the-knee amputee who created his own knee and prosthetic leg to accommodate his activities. He is a three-sport X Games athlete with the most adaptive gold medals in X Games history �" eight between SnoCross Adaptive and Moto X Racing Adaptive.
Each of the team members take one run on each of the two competition courses, with the professional athletes racing against one another and the Special Olympics athletes racing one another.
Both Shilts and Schultz won their heats and combined their scores to take home the gold medal.
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