Lindsey Vonn at Homecoming Dance
Three-time World Cup overall champion and Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn was too busy training and competing to go to school dances during her teen years. Now, she’s making up for lost time.
Vonn, a Vail, Colo. native, was visiting her old stomping grounds at the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy Thursday (November 3) when she was pleasantly surprised with an invitation to attend the school’s homecoming dance the following night by 16-year-old nordic ski racer Parker McDonald.
“When Parker asked me he was cute, nervous and very polite so of course I said YES!” Vonn told her international network of more than 300,000 Facebook friends. “All through school growing up I never got the chance to go to a school dance so I’m excited for tonight!”
Vonn is in Vail with the rest of the U.S. Ski Team for several days of training on the resort’s Golden Peak ahead of the next World Cup event in Aspen, Colo. November 27-28.
“I thought, ‘I need a date and there’s Lindsey Vonn. I’ll ask her!’” McDonald told the Vail Daily. “She walked by my lunch table and I whipped out the question.”
The question on the rest of our minds? Can Lindsey Vonn move on the dance floor like she does on the race course.
Lindsey Vonn.
Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn made one young boy’s dream come true when she said yes after being asked to go to his homecoming dance Thursday.
Parker McDonald is a sophomore at the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy in Colorado. He did not have a date for his school’s homecoming dance Friday, so he decided to ask Vonn, who was visiting the school, to be his date.
“I thought, ‘I need a date and there’s Lindsey Vonn. I’ll ask her!’” McDonald said. “She walked by my lunch table and I whipped out the question.”
Vonn recounted the tale on her Facebook page Friday.
“Yesterday I visited the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy and while I was eating lunch with all the students a 15 year old boy named Parker asked me if I would be his date for their homecoming dance which is tonight. When Parker asked me he was cute, nervous and very polite so of course I said YES!
“All through school growing up I never got the chance to go to a school dance so I’m excited for tonight!”
Vonn was in town to train with the U.S. Ski Team. Why not mix in a little fun while she’s doing some work? Hopefully her husband didn’t mind sharing her for a night.
Vonn has been a swimsuit model and made Maxim’s Hot 100 list. She also made Parker the coolest kid in school, and a national hero.
On behalf of every guy who was too afraid to ask the hot girl to the dance, we salute you Parker.
Parker McDonald is the luckiest high-school sophomore in America.
The 16-year-old Nordic skier asked Lindsey Vonn, an American Olympic gold medalist for alpine ski racing, to the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy’s homecoming dance Friday night.
And she said: “Yes!”
The 27-year-old World Cup champion was visiting the academy in Minturn, Colo., when Parker approached her with the question in the cafeteria.
“Yesterday I visited the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy and while I was eating lunch with all the students a [16] year old boy named Parker asked me if I would be his date for their homecoming dance, which is tonight” – Vonn wrote on her Facebook page. “When Parker asked me he was cute, nervous and very polite so of course I said YES! 
All through school growing up I never got the chance to go to a school dance so I’m excited for tonight!”
McDonald didn’t seem too stressed about the question, according to the Vail Daily.
“I thought, ‘I need a date, and there’s Lindsey Vonn. I’ll ask her!’” McDonald said. “She walked by my lunch table and I whipped out the question.”
“I asked her because she’s awesome!” he told the Vail Daily.
Vonn is in Minturn training with the U.S. Ski Team. Vonn is an American alpine ski racer and has won three consecutive World Cup championships. She is the first American woman to accomplish this feat. As of last March, Vonn had a total of 41 World Cup wins in downhill, Super G, slalom, and super combined skiing.