Arizonan looks to make noise in the Winter Olympics

LAKE PLACID, NY - Andia Winslow loves golf.

She plays professionally. However, she isn't in Arizona retooling her golf game. She's up in snow-covered Lake Placid training for a different sport, a sport that you wouldn't likely see in the desert.

"I'm a member of the American Bobsled and Skeleton Federation," Winslow said proudly. "Skeleton is sliding down a sled track face-first, an inch away from the ice."

Winslow didn't get in to the sport through traditional means. While playing golf in Florida, she trained with friends on the U.S. Track and Field Team.

"The coach saw me one day and asked me, ‘do you run?'," said Winslow. "I said, ‘sure, I run around.' He said ‘no, I mean run competitively.'"

She began training to run track, but then she was pulled in to bobsled and skeleton through an athlete recruiting program. When September came around, Winslow found herself in Lake Placid's Olympic Training Center, gearing up to shoot through the sled track for the 2014 Olympic in Russia and the 2018 Olympics in South Korea.

Her training will carry through until March, and then it's back to her first love: golf. She's not worried about losing the time practice her swing.

"A lot of what I'm doing for skeleton will help my golf game," said Winslow. "The mentality, strength and flexibility training, these are all things that can be directly applied to golf."

Winslow posts on a blog to show people what it's like to get ready for the Games in one of the biggest adrenaline rushes Olympians can put themselves through.