CoverGirl Snow Angels Invitational
Anyone can learn how to snowboard. It’s almost all about balance and once you have that down you’re pretty much all set. The real task is being able to snowboard and look like a hottie doing it. Gretchen Bleiler was able to pull that off along with racking in $10,000 at Saturday’s inaugural CoverGirl Snow Angels Invitational. Fifteen of the world’s best women snowboarders competed for over $20,000 dollars in prizes.
The final results:
1st-Gretchen Bleiler, Aspen, CO- $10,000
2nd- Kelly Clark, Mount Snow, VT- $4,500
3rd- Elena Hight, South Lake Tahoe, CA- $2,000
4th- Hannah Teter, Belmont, VT- $1,000
5th- Manuela Pesko, Lenzerheide, Switzerland- $500
Best Trick- Kelly Clark with a frontside 900
Highest Air- Kelly Clark
Most Progressive Riding- Gretchen Bleiler
The winners for best trick, highest air, and most progressive award won a spa therapy and massage treatment during the ESPN Winter X Games.
Some of the foxy snowboarders that were in competition were Tricia Byrnes, Soko Yamaoka, Kaitlyn Farrington, Shiho Nakashima, Ellery Hollingsworth, Paulina Ligocka, and Lizzy Beerman.
The competition is more than a regular superpipe competiton. In addition to competing, the girls are also treated with spa activities, yoga as well as environment and cooking workshops. I’m jealous. So not only do these girls get to snowboard for a living, they also get to be pampered AND win fabulous prizes, oh the life.
April 11, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I like the way your blog is set up. First off, its visually appealing. Your blogroll is relevant to your topic and it really seems like you enjoy talking about it. The way you’ve published your blog makes it easy for people to follow along even if they’ve never heard the terms or picked up a snowboard before. I was intrigued by the way you explained the tricks, you make it seem fairly simple. Of course I decided to comment on this post though, it deserves some credit.