Lehigh IDEAS Student Mika Kizuka ’24 Competes in Junior World Snowboarding Championships

Kizuka represented Team USA at the International Ski Federation Snowboarding Junior World Championships in Italy in early spring.

Mika Kizuka was all smiles flipping through what she called her snowboarding bible, a perfect-bound notebook documenting the travels of her training and competing as a professional athlete. Some of the pages have loosened, their edges creased with age, each gentle to the fingertips.

There are sketches of optimal body positions, plane tickets, luggage tags and notes of nicknames for her favorite boards and their measurements. A special entry shows autographs from some of her snowboarding heroes, whose level she’s now competing at.

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