She finished high school in Sewickley, Pennsylvania and graduated from a film studies program at the University of Southern California in 1992.

"The seemingly insurmountable challenge of no longer having legs was so difficult and extreme beyond my imagination that it forced me to fight to maintain my independence.

That search led her to Marcel Kuonen, then-head coach at the National Ability Center in Park City, Utah.

Their teamwork and partnership developed into a lifelong committed union, and in 2004, on a glacier in Zermatt, Switzerland, Kuonen proposed to Victor.

Competing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the women's super combined sitting event.