Smith suffers snowboard injury

Local athlete and general manager at The Riverside Inn in Leland, Sebastian Smith, suffered a traumatic snowboard accident and he is currently paralyzed from the shoulders down.

“I never would have thought it could have happened to me,” Smith said. “I’ve been an athlete my entire life.

I’ve worked in the kite surfing industry for over a decade. I’ve pursued sports of various risk levels my entire life and never thought anything like this would happen. “It could happen in the blink of an eye. I wasn’t pushing my writing limitations. I wasn’t pushing the boundaries.”