{"id":22434,"date":"2020-03-05T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.nrs.com\/?p=22434"},"modified":"2020-03-10T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T17:02:44","slug":"six-questions-with-the-female-athletes-of-nrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.nrs.com\/duct-tape\/2020\/03\/05\/six-questions-with-the-female-athletes-of-nrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Questions with the Female Athletes of NRS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adriene Levknecht (SC)
\n<\/strong>With one of the most impressive lists of competition results in the sport, Adriene Levknecht is one of the most well-known names in the industry. She has won the Green Race<\/a> eleven times, competed in three different Freestyle World Championships, and won bronze at the 2013 Freestyle World Championships. Her athleticism doesn\u2019t stop at kayaking either. In 2018 and 2019, she won back-to-back titles of the GoPro Mountain Games<\/a> Ultimate Mountain Challenge, in which she competed in six different sports throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n

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How many years have you been paddling?<\/em> 26<\/p>\n

Where have you paddled in the world? <\/em>I was lucky enough to be a student at World Class Kayak Academy for two years so I traveled to Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, Ecuador, Australia, Uganda, and Zambia. After school, I traveled around Europe and the UK finding rivers everywhere.<\/p>\n

If you had to choose one, what is your most proud paddling accomplishment? <\/em>Being the first woman off of the line during the 2018 Green Race. Usually, this goes to the male who won the year before, but Eric Deguil couldn’t come to the race so the organizer decided to give me the #1 pole position bib. It was freaking sweet!<\/p>\n

Who do you look up to most as a paddling role model, past or present? <\/em>I was lucky enough to be taught by some of the best in the industry, Shane Benedict and Whitney Lonsdale were the first ones to really push my kayaking. The late Maria Noakes will always be my role model, though she does not walk on this planet with us. I also really look up to Benny Marr (not because he\u2019s way taller than me) but because he really is just a good human being all around. He has helped me fall in love with kayaking many times over.<\/p>\n