stacy manello of new york is no exception despite some limitations. we have more on this talented and quite bold teenager. >> reporter: it's a beautiful thing seeing her ski. >> i started skiing with like two instructors. there was like a bamboo pole and one instructor would be on one side and one on the other side and i was in the middle. my parents thought i would be like that the rest of my life. but then i just started getting better and better. and now i'm where i am. >> reporter: where she is now, her racing bibs say it best. partially sighted, wicked fast. the 15-year-old new jersey native is legally blind, only able to see three feet in front of her. >> i've never had vision, so it's normal for me to ski without vision. >> reporter: she trains at the place she got her start as a 4- year-old with the adaptive sports foundation at windham mountain. >> she came for a few lessons, got hooked. in the time she was in third or fourth grade she started scaring her instructors, because she wanted to go so fast or in the half pipe, and they would come i