6.21.11
Tramp Camp - no not that type of camp you sillies. Bobby Brown, Grete Eliassen and Kaya Turski were at in the Toronto area last week for Red Bull Trampoline Camp at Skyriders Trampoline Facility in Markham practicing their flips and tricks with Tramp award winning coaches, Matt Christensen and David Ross.
Kaya Turski, the the first female skier to land (read more)
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5.25.11 | by stantoncompany
The New York Times released its third edition to its series about gender equity in athletics with the article, “Born on Sidelines, Cheering Clamors to Be Sport.” This article focuses on the development of competitive cheerleading, and the two organizations competing to be declared the sport's governing body by the NCAA. Nancy Hogshead-Makar, (read more)
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4.7.11 | by stantoncompany
Accompanied by Devin Logan, freestyle ski goddess Grete Eliassen visits her hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota – a city well know for its urban freestyle spots and great skiers...
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Source: redbull.com
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3.8.11 | by stantoncompany
Grete Eliassen first began hitting jumps at age four, and now at 23 she holds the women’s world record for biggest air, at 31 feet (off of a 30 foot jump) that she claimed at the Canyons Resort in Utah last Spring. “I still have the photo in my house of my first Spread Eagle jump. You start on the (read more)
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2.25.11 | by stantoncompany
Professional skier and Uniontown native Kristi Leskinen grew up buying snowboarding videos — not skiing videos — for one simple reason.
She couldn't find any females in the freestyle videos being produced, only the snowboard ones.
That's changed in the last 10 years, with Leskinen herself among the pros who travel the world filming, competing and helping draw attention to the sport (read more)
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