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Helena Makes the Girl Powder Team
From Snowboard-Mag.com @ http://www.snowboard-mag.com/node/28276
Girl Powder Proudly Announces its 2008 Team who will Represent this Winter
November 15, 2007
Lake Tahoe, CA (November 15, 2007) A hand-picked group of fifteen girls will be rocking the Girl Powder logo on and off the slopes this season. From sunny California to quaint Wisconsin, and ranging from 11 to 29 years old, the eleven snowboarders and four skiers make up a unique team of powerful girls.
The 2008 Girl Powder team includes snowboarders Kimberly Achelis, Summer Andersion, Laurie Currier, Kalyn Benaroya, Kate Jomes, Alison Papworth, Mandy Schelldorf, Nicole Slechta, Tara Stef, Stacey Stenton, Cierra Xavier, and skiers Heidi Adamson, Katie Dill, Helena Stevenson, and Britt White.
"Girl Powder is truly a unique company and I appreciate the core values and philosophy the company supports," says 23-year-old Tara Stef from Steamboat Springs, CO. "Girl Powder is a company that embraces femininity in an edgy 'don't mess with us' type of way. It supports camaraderie."
As part of their Girl Powder duties each member is required to participate in three contests during the season and submit video and riding shots. Check out extended rider profiles at www.girlpowder.com and www.myspace.com/girlpowder. You can catch the girls wherever the snow falls showing their skills at contests and beating boys down the slopes all day long.
"Members of the Girl Powder team are leaders both on the slope, and in their community. Not only do they have a love for the snow, but they also love to help and see other girls get on the mountain," says Founder and President Joel Lackovich.
"Being sponsored by Girl Powder we can be ourselves, go big, and try new things. This is exactly how I am and I'm stoked to be able to represent Girl Powder in any way I can both on and off the slope," says Katie Dill, 17, from Lake Tahoe, CA.
The Girl Powder posse will be representing at many resorts and events this season, including the "Show Us Your Snow Dance" in the Girl Powder tent at Southern California's Mountain High Resort on December 15, and at Girl Powder's infamous "Pink Party" at the World Ski and Snowboard Festival this coming spring.
Founded in 2002, Girl Powder's purpose is to empower women and broaden awareness of female snow sports through their fashionable clothing, online community, and monthly events. Initially started as an online ride share message board for women to connect with one another, and find an alternative to hitch-hiking up to the hill, Girl Powder is now a growing presence on the web, and the slopes, and represents a lifestyle and a way of life.
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On March 11 Helena entered the Roxy Snow Classic, an all girls slopestyle contest. Riders from around the western states came to compete in the event. It was a mixed snowboard/ski event. There were ladies from the Roxy ski and board team on board to judge the event.
Unfortunately for Helena she just missed her normal cut and was thrust into the 10 to 18 age group. There was stiff competition in this group which was made primarily of 16 to 18 year old lady shredders. Even with this stiff competition, Helena made a strong fourth place finish. She had a spectacular grab on the second jump of her second run. This was probably her smoothest grab of the entire year.
She is truly pumped for next year and her goal is to make it to the podium. We are all wishing her luck.
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BEAR MOUNTAIN QUALIFIES FOUR FOR NATIONAL JEEP® TERRAIN PARK CHALLENGE RAIL COMPETITION
Four Regional Champs from Bear Mt. Event Advance to National Championships in Sugar Bowl, CA, March 10
Big Bear Lake, CA – February 12, 2007 – Josh Nelson, Jenna Klein, Kenny Sokolowski, and Callie Heckmen beat out the competition on the rails & jumps to take top honors at the Jeep Terrain Park Challenge (www.jeeptpc.com) Regional Championships held Saturday, February 10 at Bear Mt.. Nelson and Klein won the men’s and women’s skiing divisions while Sokolowski and Heckmen topped the field in the men’s and women’s snowboard divisions.
This Regional competition is one of six held nationally. Regional winners in each of the four divisions, men’s and women’s ski and snowboard, will advance to the nationals to be held March 10, at Sugar Bowl, California. They will be part of a field of 24 Regional Champions vying for the national title.
“The Regional Championship event at Bear Mountain was very competitive. The winners have set the standards for the high level of competition we can expect at the National Championships,” offered Christy Martin, Program Director for the Jeep Terrain Park Challenge.
Though the winners deserve top accolades, the crowd pleaser at the event was 10-year-old Helena Stevenson. Decked out in a pink cowboy hat and matching coat, Stevenson wowed the crowd with her rail tricks and took second place in the women’s ski division.
The Terrain Park Challenge began earlier this season with freestyle competition at host grassroots resorts across the nation. Amateur boarders and skiers of all ages and abilities brought their hottest moves to the terrain and the top male and female boarder and skier from each host site advanced to one of six Regional events in the country.
Proceeds from the Jeep Terrain Park Challenge benefit The Heuga Center (www.heuga.org), a non-profit organization founded by former Olympic ski racer, Jimmie Heuga, that improves the lives of people with multiple sclerosis through educational and wellness programs unique to any in the world.
The Jeep Terrain Park Challenge Regional Championships take place throughout February at six spectacular resorts across the U.S., each offering world-class recreational facilities and breathtaking scenic backdrops. This year’s regional sites include:
- February 10 Boyne Mountain // Boyne Falls, Michigan
- February 10 Big Bear // Big Bear Lake, California
- February 17 Shawnee Mountain // Shawnee On Delaware, Pennsylvania
- February 24 Welch Village // Welch, Minnesota
- February 24 Monarch // Monarch, Colorado
- February 25 Sugarbush Resort // Warren, Vermont
Sponsors of the Jeep Terrain Park Challenge include: Jeep, Rossignol, John Paul Mitchell, Scott USA and Columbia Sportswear.
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