This week’s Bonaventure Campus Celebrity is Gabby Slavny. She is not only a SGA Senator but also a key member of the Bonaventure club skiing team. This week she travels to Oregon to compete at the national level!
Hometown: Pittsford, New York
Year: sophomore
Major: marketing
Favorite Activities: skiing, hiking in the summer, and spending time with my friends.   Â
Her Campus: You can have any super power in the world…what is it?
Gabby Slavny: “I would want the ability to understand and speak any language. I really want to travel the world, and that would make it a lot easier.
HC: What is your biggest pet peeve?
GS: “Impolite people, it drives me crazy when people don’t say a simple thank you when you hold the door for them.”Â
HC: How long have you been skiing?
GS: “As an infant I spent a lot of time at the mountain while my mom would ski. So as soon as I could walk I was on skis, which was a few months before I was 2 years old. I started race training when I was 5, and started racing when I was 7.”Â
HC: What is your all-time favorite thing about it?
GS: “There is a sense of freedom you feel when you’re on the mountain, and nothing really compares to it.”
HC: How does skiing work at the collegiate level?
GS: “There are two collegiate ski racing circuits, one being NCAA Division I and the other is USCSA. I ski in USCSA, which is a combination of Divisions I, II, III and club teams. From my regular season I qualified for the National Tournament Mideast Division. At regionals, one person apart of a non-qualifying team (they take the top scoring 3 teams from regionals to nationals) qualifies for nationals. So at regionals I got 2nd place in the event, which gave me the spot to nationals. Nationals are held at Mt. Bachelor, Oregon.”
HC: What is something that you wish everyone knew about skiing?
GS: “It’s really not that cold! The temperature really isn’t that bad, but I think it keeps a lot of people from skiing.”
HC: What is your favorite thing about Bonas?
GS: “I love the people at Bonas, I feel like there’s no bond like our Bona bubble.”