Key volunteer Stidd skis to Special Olympics bronze

MOORESVILLE, N.C. -- Chris Stidd, a 27-year-old volunteer shop worker for Key Motorsports' Craftsman Truck and Nationwide Series race organization, recently captured a bronze medal in the skiing competition in the Special Olympics of North Carolina event held at the Appalachian Ski Mountain in Blowing Rock, N.C.

Competing in the slalom event on the intermediate level blue course, Stidd was third in the overall competition out of 12 competitors and earned a berth in the Southeast Regional competition of the National Special Olympics. That event also will be held on the Appalachian Mountain course Feb. 3-4.

The regional competition will feature more than 200 Special Olympic skiers from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Stidd, the son of Race City Machine owner Robert Stidd, located in the Talbot Point Industrial Park in Mooresville, has been skiing for five years and is employed by Lowe's Foods when he is not tooling around the Key Motorsports race shop.