U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn accepts student’s invitation to homecoming dance

For most high school students, trying to score that ultimate date for the homecoming dance is a rather trying and nerve-wrecking moment.

Parker McDonald of the Vail Ski and Snowboard Academy was looking for a date for the school’s upcoming homecoming dance and he decided to ask gold-medal skier Lindsey Vonn who was going to speak at the school one day before the dance:

It didn’t occur to him that she might say yes, or no, or anything at all, McDonald said. “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.”

While most celebrities might have balked at the offer, Vonn was very appreciative and accepted Parker’s offer to take her to the dance. She recounted the story on her Facebook page:

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!

So in the end, everybody wins. Vonn got a chance to relive a moment that she didn’t get to have in her past and Parker got himself a date to the homecoming dance.

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Lindsey Vonn takes Sophomore Parker McDonald To Homecoming Dance [Larry Brown Sports]

Lindsey Vonn: Homecoming Queen [Vail Daily]