Sheila Holzworth (August 28, 1961[1][2] – March 29, 2013[3]) was an American para-alpine skier.

In 1981, the International Year of Disabled Persons, Holzworth was the first blind woman to climb Mount Rainier.

[6] She competed and won medals in several other competitions, including the World Cup Championships of Winter Sports for the Disabled in Switzerland and the National Snow Ski Competition and American Blind Water Ski Championships in 1983, and the International Blind Water Ski Competition in Norway in 1984.

She also set other records, including a world record in trick water skiing for the blind and disabled in 1989, and being the first sightless person to jump on water skis in the United States.

She was invited to White House receptions at different times by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W.