Picked up from Yahoo! news, courtesy of Robert LaHue.  This 17-year old girl, deaf since birth, is a mortorsports champion.  Her name is Ashley Fiolek, and she appeared in the X Games in the first year of Women’s Moto X Racing on Saturday, August 2, 2008. Read more here at the original article.

Doing a quick Google search of her, I found her web site, some more news articles, web pages and videos.

Reading about Ashley reminded me of a daredevil deaf woman named Kitty O’Neil from the 1970s, who was called the world’s fastest woman and listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for getting up to 512.710 mph.  She was a racecar driver and a stuntwoman.  I think I still have the article that my parents clipped out for me somewhere in my keepsakes box. More can be found doing a search for her name.

I think it’s neat that Ashley is making a name in motocrossing.