Media release: Elite mountain bike racer, Mikayla Parton, wins Youth Mountain Award
The festival’s youth ambassador award, established in 2015, celebrates adventurous young people, the landscapes they choose to explore and the outdoor pursuits in which they excel.
The young winner needs to have shown resilience and determination to succeed within their chosen area of expertise, shown results through their own efforts and ideas, given back to their community, whilst being thought of as an example of excellence by others.
Mikayla Parton epitomises these winning principles perfectly. Her meteoric rise to the top of the international downhill mountain bike race scene, from riding her first trail bike in 2015 to placing fifth at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2020, in just five years can be attributed to an obvious raw talent, constant hard work, dedicated training, motivation, focus and a dogged determination for success.
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UHI graduate programme will give Highland artists the tools for a sustainable career By Calum MacLeod
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Updated: 17:40, 16 February 2021
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UHI students taking part in a pre-pandemic Circus Artspace professional practice workshop in Inverness.
Artists from across the Highlands and Islands have until Saturday March 6 to apply for a place on a 10 month graduate development programme, developed by the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) and artist-run Circus Artspace.
The initiative is open to all visual art graduates based in the Highlands and Islands as well as University of the Highlands and Islands alumni in Moray and Perthshire.
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