SUSAN DUNKLEE

BIATHLON

Name: Susan Dunklee
Sport(s): Biathlon
Year of birth: 1986
Home (or grown up in): Craftsbury, VT (USA)
Education: Dartmouth College, biology
Profession(s): Biathlon Sports Director & Coach
With the Maloja team since: 2018 with US Biathlon, 2022 as an individual
Maloja is for me … is a feeling of pride and a feeling of adventure…“Do it for the Maloja!”
Instagram: @susan.dunklee
Beautiful moments (instead of successes): That feeling of being fully alive when you hike or ski into the driving wind and snow.

Favorite word?

Resilience

What do you need?

Challenge. Community. Quiet time by myself at some point during each day

What do you not need?

Coffee

I would never...

say never. Who knows what new adventures might be out there?

Your biggest success:

2x Silver Medalist at Biathlon World Championships

What have you learned from competitive sports for life?

How to give my best effort every time and believe in myself. How to work collaboratively towards common goals, both on and off the ski track.

Three things that belong in your backpack/travel bag:

A book, water bottle, and a kite

I am inspired …

By people- by those who have a vision and pursue it, by those who support other people around them, and by those who choose gratitude.
By the natural world- by the ridgeline of Mt Mansfield across northern Vermont, by the maple, birch, and cedar forests I run through, by the growing vines and leaves of my vegetable garden.