Education
She crashed in the quarter-finals at the World Championships held in Taiyuan, China, on June 2, 2008, with the result that Jill Kintner, her friend and roommate at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California, finished in sixth place, which was enough to guarantee Jill the only automatic women"s spot on the United States BMX Olympic Team.
Career
United States of America Cycling has a 17-race points series, and Jill had 129 points to Martin"s 128. The two say that living together in the training center just made them able to push each other, as they remained neck and neck until Martin"s accident. Martin finished a degree in exercise science in 2007 at Brigham Young University.
They left their Utah home on separate missions, she to train for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, and he to spend a year deployed in Afghanistan with the United States Army.
Martin"s father was a BMX racer. As a young girl, she watched him, then started riding a BMX bike at the age of two.
At 15 she turned pro and in October 2007, became the third woman in the world to do a backflip on a BMX bike. Martin has said that missing the Beijing Olympics made her more determined than ever to remain at the top in BMX and to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Martin was selected to compete at the London 2012 Olympics but a crash during a training run on July 30 in California, hospitalized her and left her out of the team, being replaced by Brooke Crain.