Category: 2000s
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Marie-France Gravel
Marie-France was an Indigenous skateboarder who took up skateboarding in her early thirties as a single mom in Montréal and was part of the original Skirtboarders crew. She had begun skateboarding in 1994 but had to put her life on hold to care for her daughter Arielle, who was born paralyzed and wheelchair-bound with cerebral…
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C’naan Omer
The Women’s Street Competition at Vancouver’s annual Slam City Jam in 2000 was intense. This was the third year the contest had offered categories in which women could compete. The favorites to win were obviously Elissa Steamer and Jaime Reyes, but C’naan Omer at age 15, a relatively unknown skater took first place. I remembered…
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Crystal Solomon
Crystal Solomon was a skateboarder in the early 2000s from San Jose, and I feel like the skateboarding community needs to know her story. All I’ve got is that Crystal was sponsored by Osiris shoes, Circle A Boardshop, Ball Hitch Ramps, got flow from Enjoi, and was pro for Cherry skateboards (a female-run board company…
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Push & Frontside Betty
Does anyone remember Frontside Betty website and Push skateboard magazine? Both were created by Denise Williams in Halifax, Canada in the early 2000s. The world wide web was a gamechanger and Williams was motivated to reach other isolated women skateboarders, to shift the ratio of representation, and be a resource. Here are the three digitized issues of…
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Émilie Rougier
Émilie Rougier of Montpellier was a pioneering female skateboarder from France. She started skateboarding in 1995/96, and pursued a Masters degree in Sports Management, producing a thesis in July 2002 on the topic of women in skateboarding. She taught skateboarding at her local club (Les Moustachus), promoted skateboarding for women, and had a crew of…
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