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Participant Profile for
NANCY LA RIVIERE
Last Updated: August 12, 2009
I am from DELAND, Florida United States of America and I am 50 years old. I’ve been skydiving for 34 years and have made 6100 skydives during that time.
My professional occupation is PARACHUTE EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER.
My Biography:
Nancy began skydiving in 1975, at the age of sixteen, at the Orange Sport Parachuting Center, in Orange, Massachusetts. An avid High School athlete, Nancy found skydiving fun and “easy”, and adopted it as her sport.
She earned her pilots license 1985, in Nashua New Hampshire, and has logged time in everything from ultralights to corporate jets. She earned her Commercial and Multi-engine ratings in 1986.
Nancy has earned numerous skydiving awards including WSCR 517, Club de Grande Etoiles 669, CGE de Nuit 52, 4 Stack 2255, CCR 922, 72 Hour Freefall badge, 6000 freefall wings, is a USPA Licensed AFF Instructor Examiner, Tandem Course Director and Examiner on the Racer Tandem System;
As a member of U.S. Parachute Team Nancy competed in World Championships in Chengdu, China in 1994, Bekescaba, Hungary in 1996 and Vrsar, Croatia in 1998, Gap, France in 2003 where she and her teammates won two Bronze Medals in Team Accuracy and Overall Nation, and in Rijeka, Croatia again in 2004. Other competition awards include numerous Bronze & Silver Medals in Advanced Speed Style, Precision Accuracy, and 10_Way in U.S. Nationals Competition; she's also won many regional 4 way, eight way, and 20 way competition awards. She holds USPA D License #7675
Nancy is an experienced Test Jumper, Freefall Videographer. She participated in numerous World Record skydives including the worlds’ first 100 Way, Muskogee, OK. 1986, The First 200 Way, Myrtle Beach, SC. 1992. Worlds first 216 Way in Bratislava, Slovakia 1994, virtually every women's world record since 1979, the 1986 51 way Round formation, 1986 60 Way Round Formation. She did skydiving stunt work in the 1995 Paramount TV movie, “Shadow Ops”, and did 100’ (foot) repelling demonstrations from a helicopter and a building for a Miami promotion. Most recently,
she stunt doubled the aerial sequences in the upcoming major motion picture, “The Good Shepherd”, directed by Robert DeNiro, and starring Angelina Jolie.
Nancy served as Editor of ParaNews Brief, the Parachute Industry Association newsletter, and as Secretary of the PIA from 1993-1996.
She works in sales, product development, customer service, and advertising at Parachute Labs Inc., dba Jump Shack, a major supplier of parachute equipment to the sport and military markets. She is also President of the company. Nancy presently has 6100 jumps.
My Hobbies & Other Interests:
She graduated from University of New Hampshire 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Arts. Nancy is a talented artist and illustrator. She enjoys playing the guitar, golfing, sailing and scuba diving with her son son, Johnny. She is an avid snow skier and water skier. These days, Nancy enjoys working out by distance swimming to stay in shape, she also bikes, kayaks, power walks, rides horses, lifts weights and practices yoga.
Why I feel it’s important to participate in JFTC:
My mother is a cancer survivor. Every penny that goes to researching breast cancer also advances other cancer research.
I value and enjoy the sororitas of the semi-annual gathering. There is nothing quite like it. I like to think that to a small degree we are contributing to the advancement of the dreams and aspirations of women and girls in the world, in a feminist sort of way.
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