Kayla Morin-Blanchette

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Kayla, 23, is currently in her 3rd year at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in physical education and health teaching while being a mountain bike athlete for 13 years now. She started mountain biking by chance. Her brother practiced this sport and her coach asked her every week to join the club with them and she ended up saying yes.

Once training began, came the requests to participate in races on the Coupe Québec circuit. These events did not interest her. Her first participation in a race happened somewhat by accident. In fact, it was a punishment from her parents, because she had too much energy and was causing a bit of trouble at school. So her parents registered her for the race at Mont-Tremblant, without telling her, in order to burn off this excess energy that was inside her. It was a bad move for them, I got the bug and the punishment turned into passion.

In 2017 she discovered Enduro, a discipline in which she recognizes herself, this kind of race where you have to give your all over a short period, keep the focus to start again descent after descent, has become a drug for her. She finds a balance in the practice of these races. Challenge towards herself race after race, Challenge towards the course which is different, Challenge towards others, but especially the friendly format that we find there while being a race.

Finally, she is a cheerful, determined and above all persevering person. Her primary goal, for the moment, is not to become a professional cyclist, but to transmit her passion for mountain biking to our future generation. In other words, she aspires to become a reference and an inspiration as a mountain bike athlete.