1st Annual Wheels of Fortune girls skateboard contest
Thank you so much for all of your support with Skate Like a Girl's first major contest in forever AND first cash purse / ladies only skate contest in the Northwest. We had over 30 contestants
from all over the Northwest join in on a day of really amazing skateboarding. Local female artists (179 and Jackie Danger),
and musicians (the Valkryies, and DJ lil Aremenia) helped add to this skate jam.
We are so lucky to have
Ugly Girls like yours help support our mission, vision, and values. After the contest we got a flood of emails from
parents of skaters expressing how much this contest meant to them.
Autumn Maddux who took first in the beginners
division was so excited that she won, her dad wrote: "I just wanted to say as a skate boarding dad, my daughter had a
great time. This was only her second contest,she is only 8 years old. I am very proud and happy that someone has done something
like this for girls. This was the first time she has seen girls on the skateboard."
Your support helps us
strengthen our mentorship model that enables young women like 19 year-old Kristin Ebeling who co-organized the contest and
took second in advanced to be a leader in her local skate community by conceptualizing and organizing contests like Wheels
of Fortune!
Girls have not been as supported at the level as male skater, and for your company to give, we are
stoked that you are here to make girl skating as legit!
On the behalf of Skate Like a Girl, thank you for
your support and hope to partner with you in the future!
Special thanks to those who helped us pull this
new shirts off. We couldn't do it without the encouragement and support from them (you know who you are, thank you).
We have been experimenting with new bag/purse designs and love what we are doing. We are having a blast and can't wait to create more.
We are also working on a new shirt graphic and hope to have them here by the end of November. We will make sure to
get plenty of hoodies for the cooler season.
The SLAG JAM (July 2008) was off the hook with gals from all over the Puget Sound coming to skate
together. Traveling the furthest were a few gals from Bellingham came and rallied.
Around 10 girls came and shredded the skatepark, ranging from riding tranny to
skating street. Kristen Ebeling, Chrissie Lathrop and Muriel DeKlerk tore it up and were skating super well. All the ladies
were olli-ing big and kick flipping the drop. Some hilights: Kristen fire crackered the 5 stair and feebled the rail; Chrissie
kick flipped the hip, trey flippd bank, and board slid the rail out of the bank; and Muriel tuck kneed the hip and switch
ollied the drop.
We also had a bunch of older shredders covering
up the bowl, along with some beginners rolling around. It was a super fun and hot day! Check out photos here.
Thanks again to the City of Redmond, Sno Con, and Ugly Girls Clothing for
providing the loot for all the gals!
Thank you SLAG for letting us be a part of it and supporting your local Ugly Girls!
Here are the auction items we are donating to the POUR IT NOW auction at the end of August. We are so excited to get the opportunity to supply goods to this cause.
Here is the first Ugly Girls skateboard and I love it! We will be donating
this board to the POUR IT NOW group out of Columbia, SC for a silent auction in August (check them out).
We designed this board through BoardPUSHER and we got it fast. Thanks BoardPUSHER!
If anyone is interested in getting
their own Ugly Girls skateboard, let me know (or any other custom board for that matter).
