BANNER ELK â Students attending the celebratory party marking the end of the school year got to see their college campus in a new light. Â
Lees-McRae held an end-of-semester event for students on April 15. The Bobcat Blast featured food and games, a beer garden from a local Bobcat-owned brewery, and the world premiere of Red Bullâs âBack to School Urban Snowboardingâ Rail Report with Luke Winkelmann, which was filmed in February on the Lees-McRae campus. In the video, Winkelmann and fellow snowboarders Judd Henkes and Alex Caccamo slide down stair rails on their boards, landing jumps into mountains of snow. Â
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BLOWING ROCK â No longer a teenager as of two weeks ago, Luke Winkelmann may be worldly but still treasures his roots in Blowing Rock.
In a phone interview on Monday, the Blowing Rock native, who for the last few years has become a fixture on the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Team, spoke in reverence of the support afforded him from the earliest days honing his skills on Appalachian Ski Mtn.
Luke Winkelmann has a certain mystique about him when he competes for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team. Red Bull Content Pool/Aaron Blatt
âIt is both insane and humbling,â the new 20-year-old said. âTo think of all the places in the world I have gotten to travel and see, and all of the experiences with which I have been blessed â and it all started right here, in Blowing Rock and on the slopes of Appalachian Ski Mtn.â