Former WXC class competitor Jesi Stracham's unexpected love story and her return to racing at the Rocky Mountain ATV/MC Mountaineer Run gained national attention with her appearance the Today Show. Stracham was involved in a motorcycle accident back in January, which would leave her paralyzed from the waist down. Her parents authorized an experimental surgery, that at the time only one other person had received. That other person, named Jordan Fallis, and had been paralyzed last October when trying to backflip a dirt bike. Stracham and Fallis received a device called Neuro-Spinal Scaffold, which was inserted into a wound found on their spinal cord. For the first time since her accident, Stracham lined up at the Mountaineer Run GNCC to compete in the Polaris Single Seat race aboard a specially prepared Polaris ACE. Stracham finished the race in 5th place, and looks to improve on that this weekend at the Wiseco John Penton GNCC in Millfield, OH.