Category: Profile
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Morgan LaFonte
It’s the Winter Olympics and I can’t help but think of all the amazing female snowboarders from decades past like Morgan LaFonte, who also happened to be an awesome skateboarder! Above: a photo of Morgan skateboarding appeared in the May/June 1998 issue of Punk Planet Morgan was born in June 1967 in Boyne Falls, Michigan…
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Sharonda Harris
In May 1986, Sharonda Harris cruised down Oak Street in Vineland, New Jersey on her skateboard and a photo of her by Barry Solof was published in the Cumberland County newspaper based out of Bridgeton. I’m pretty confident that this is Sharonda Harris-Bunton, who would go on to open a Vegan restaurant called “Vegans Are…
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Sally Patterson
Sally Patterson (Gibson) from Rochester, Minnesota, began skateboarding in 1976 and became the lone female member of the Rochester YMCA skateboard team from 1977 – 1980 out of thirteen boys. Photos: Sally in 1976 performing a daffy on the left and an elbow stand on the right. Sally’s first skateboard was handmade with the help…
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Amanda Kitt
Amanda Kitt is most recognizable for her street-skating cameo in the Villa Villa Cola video called Getting Nowhere Faster (2004), and for a feature interview in Issue 14 of Check it Out: skateboarding 4 girls magazine from 2003, where it was noted that she was age 16, sponsored by Lee Lee skateboards and on flow…
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Shirley McLelland
In the October 1983 issue of Thrasher, there’s mention of one Shirley McLelland competing against the amateur guys in the “tight slalom” contest at the Southern California Summer World Series finals at Del Mar. Shirley placed 11th out of 14 and I was relieved to see her name considering what happened a few years prior.…
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Àngels Borrell
Àngels Borrell was 13 years old in 1978 when her skateboarding story began near Barcelona, Spain. And decades later, in her forties and fifties, she continued to skate thanks to a reunion with her childhood friends. Àngels also became a key resource when a dedicated crew of skaters began a movement to unearth the very…
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Patty Segovia AGSJ
Patty Segovia (Krause) was born and raised in Los Angeles and is revered for being the organizer and promoter of the All Girl Skate Jam (AGSJ) from 1997-2013, as well as a photographer. The AGSJ started out in 1990 as a girls’ vert demo at an NSA contest in Reno, Nevada, before returning with a…
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Stefanie Åkesson
Stefanie Åkesson (she/her) is from Falun, Sweden and has a long legacy of competitive skateboarding and an inspiring story. Her full list of contest wins can be found on her website such as being the Swedish freestyle champion over fifteen times! Stefanie explained via Facebook that “I got my first skateboard August 28, 1978. But…
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Louisa Hawton
Louisa Hawton, aka “Bang Bang Lulu” or “The Smiling Assassin” is best known for being a professional boxer, World Boxing Council (WBC) champion fighter, and 2019 Supreme Boxing Female Fighter of the Year, among many other boxing-related titles, and I’m not surprised to learn that she was also a ripping skater in the early 2000s.…
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Lynnette Fraas
Lynnette Fraas was a competitive freestyle skateboarder in the 1970s, sponsored by Banzai skateboards, whose name started to appear in contest results in 1976. She is from San Diego and attended Mission Bay Senior High (1978-1980). At the 2nd Annual Amateur Freestyle contest in Oceanside on July 11, 1976 there were 2000 spectators according to…
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