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My name is Nicole. I am 34 years old, deaf, a mother of 2 boys, an avid ski racer and bicyclist (road & Mtn.), a pilot and a hydrologist with the US Forest Service. I was born hearing until my mother noticed that I was not responding to her calling around 15 months old. She had no clue what happened, there was no fever or trauma. I went to public school my whole life from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Colorado, then went on to college at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks where I met my husband, a mountain guide, a pilot, a father with a sense of humor. I worked for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for three summers until I graduated. I received my degrees in Biological Science and Wildland Fire Control. Then we moved to Reno, NV in December 2000 where I worked at Patagonia until I decided to go back to school. I took a summer job working for the State of Nevada Division of Environmental Protection until I landed a student career position with the Forest Service. I eventually obtained a MS in biology at the University of Nevada Reno (UNR). I must say that I’ve been blessed with many things in my life. My goal is to keep doing what I’ve been doing and I hope to someday win the Olympic gold medal in downhill at the Winter Deaflympics in Slovakia in 2011.