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Shannon Carroll grew up spending summers on the New River and soon fell in with BJ and Katie Johnson and went on a whirlwind of a whitewater life.  She endured the usual additional obstacles and doubts of men, which women of these sports face.  Confidence in herself was not something Shannon lacked and she rose to the top of the sport, becoming one of the first ever Red Bull-sponsored kayakers.  Amid all of this, one day the kayaking world woke up to news that would actually alter the trajectory of the sport.  A big waterfall had paddled......it was probably a world record by any kayaker........and (in a whisper) it was a woman who ran it.  Shannon's run of Shahalie Falls set off a decade plus race to run the highest waterfall in a kayak.

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