Maral Rasekhi is a dual sport professional athlete who maintains some of the highest accolades within snowboarding and hockey. Maral started skating at age 7 and immediately showed an uncanny talent for the sport. By 10 Maral started skiing and she took on snowboarding at 15.
An inline hockey player, snowboarder and speed skater, Maral was just a teenager when she first decided to become a pro athlete. At only seventeen, she joined Iran’s national speed skating team and in 2004 became the first Iranian female speed skater to compete abroad. Maral was a member of Iran’s inline hockey team between 2014 to 2016. She has won multiple medals in snowboarding and inline hockey. The multi-medal winner also coaches eager learners
A woman who relentlessly chases her dreams: a successful woman wouldn’t let her surrounding conditions affect her decision making or distract her from achieving her goals.