Ride of her life
On the bike and in the classroom, scholarship recipient and UMD graduate Alexandera Houchin shows that persistence matters
Meet Alexandera Houchin, the 2020 University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) graduate who was the first woman to cross the finish line in both the 2018 and 2019 Tour Divide, a 2,745-mile mountain bike race that traverses the length of the Rocky Mountains from Canada to the Mexican border.
Houchin started college when she was 26 and transferred to UMD where she majored in American Indian studies and minored in chemistry. A member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and recipient of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Scholarship, she plans to apply to dental school and eventually serve her Ojibwe community as a dentist.
Find out what drives Houchin to keep going, one pedal at a time.
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