Team Mannatech
Team Mannatech is a group of world-class athletes who serve as role models for today’s wellness generation. These celebrated sports figures and athletes have chosen to achieve and maintain optimal health through the utilization of cutting-edge training techniques and proper nutrition.
- Chip and Glyn Ann Townsend - Martial Arts
In their hometown of Abilene, Texas, Chip and Glyn Ann Townsend are best known for their ability to break things-boards, beams, blocks, whatever they can get their hands on as they hone their martial arts skills.
Chip has been practicing martial arts since 1985 and is now a fifth-degree black belt. He currently holds an unprecedented 14 world breaking titles including the ...
- Hayley Wickenheiser - Hockey
Excellence and professionalism are words that Hayley Wickenheiser lives by. Her devotion to these two words has led Wickenheiser to become known as the greatest female hockey player of all time, a reputation she has earned by breaking and continuing to break records on the ice.
From a very young age Wickenheiser showed a fervent interest in and talent for hockey, practicing endlessly in her family's ice rink in ...
- Lain Van Ogle - BMX Racing
If there were any doubt about Lain Van Ogle's passion for racing, it was laid to rest during a return flight from an overseas BMX competition. The plane's cargo hold was overloaded. The choice: Leave his bicycle or his clothes.
His clothes arrived several days later.
That's the kind of single-minded, competitive focus that has driven the 12 year old ever since he began BMX (bicycle motocross) racing when he was 6. Since ...
- Stran Smith - Pro Rodeo
Six-time National Finals Rodeo Qualifier Stran Smith has not only become one of the top professional cowboys in the world-he has gained enormous popularity and a loyal following that extends far beyond the rodeo arena. Why? "I try to be a good role model," he says. And he's done just that pursuing his dreams and inspiring others, in and out of the rodeo arena.
Stran's calf roping career began when he was ...
- Freddie Williams - Olympic® Track & Field
Three-time Olympian Freddie Williams understands the perseverance one needs to "go the distance" in life. He learned the meaning of the word while growing up in apartheid-dominated South Africa, where he often witnessed the demoralizing brutality of racial persecution. But rather than see himself as a victim, Freddie took action. He channeled his energy into running, and he soon made a name for himself, remaining undefeated during every 800-meter and 1,500-meter ...
- Joe Petersen - Cycling
There are adventurers who seek obstacles. They look for journeys considered too challenging for most. They push harder, dig deep and suffer more. They put themselves through the physical wringer with the sole intent of reaching a higher plane of self awareness.
Consider cyclist Joe Petersen such an adventurer. Since taking up serious cycling at age 28, Joe quickly established himself as a competitor to be reckoned with. In addition to having won ...
- Dianna Carda - Swimming/Track & Field/Equestrian
When Dianna Carda appeared at the World Dwarf Games in 2001, she was hoping to have fun, meet people like herself and maybe, just maybe, bring home a medal. Even though Dianna had been active in sports since childhood, at age 45, not only was this her first organized dwarf athletic competition, but she also would be challenging seasoned, record-holding athletes from around the world.
No one could believe the competitive effort ...
- Mario Maraldo - Power Boat Racing
While attempting to set a world speed record, Mario Maraldo flipped his one-ton hydroplane boat at 135 miles per hour. The accident sent the upended, 24-foot-long vessel cart-wheeling across the lake's surface, destroying it and laying the fledgling racer in the hospital for a week.
At that point, some people might have begun having second thoughts about a sport that pushes the limits and tempts fate. Not Mario. It's not that ...
- Jay Norman - Ultrarunning
Every step is different. That's why Jay Norman is passionate about ultrarunning-a sport that puts him on the winding trails of the world's wilderness byways. Whether it is Nepal or Costa Rica, the Rocky Mountains or the Texas Gulf Coast, Jay revels in testing his physical and mental mettle and immersing himself in nature - one step at a time.
Jay ran his first 100-mile wilderness trail race in 1987 at the ...
