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Chicago, America’s Next Surf City?
by Pretty Tough
posted June 16, 2009 at 6:09pm

The Windy City is one of America’s sports meccas: home to the Bears and the Bulls, the Sox and the Cubs, and but can it become Surf City, U.S.A.? Technically no, since that name belongs to Huntington Beach, California but this week Chicago city offici...more

Making waves: Brazil’s surf sensation Maya Gabeira inspires girls
by Pretty Tough
posted June 9, 2009 at 12:14pm

A Brazilian is emerging as one of the world’s top big wave surfers – and she’s a woman. Maya Gabeira’s skills and bravery have made her a female pioneer of daredevil tactics in a male-dominated sport. Pretty Tough, indeed. Gabeira first took to a...more

California high schools embrace skateboarding as a competitive sport
by Pretty Tough
posted June 5, 2009 at 7:31pm

Skateboarding is as diverse a sport as the athletes it attracts. From doing tricks, riding in a skate-park, sliding, racing, or freestyle, there are lots of ways to ride and more and more girls are taking up the challenge. While most schools don’t al...more

Win a scholarship to Windells Action Sports Camp!
by Pretty Tough
posted June 5, 2009 at 11:47am

A lot of students are assigned a “personal essay” as the final English assignment of the year. For some kids, the paper morphs into the essay they submit as part of their college application. Others embark on a period of journaling as a road to pers...more

Teen Nicola Butler repeats as top wakeboarder
by Pretty Tough
posted June 4, 2009 at 11:42am

The stars of the wakeboarding world were out at the MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour weekend stop in Fort Worth, Tex.Fans packed the shores for the final rounds of the comp while riders in the Pro Men, Women and Jr. Pro Men divisions, threwdown their best r...more

Surf movie: Dear and Yonder
by Pretty Tough
posted May 10, 2009 at 12:04pm

Dear and Yonder is an ocean odyssey of the female kind. Featuring surfers Lisa Andersen, Kassia Meador, Sofia Mulanovich, Sally Fitzgibbons, Belinda Baggs, Linda Benson, Rell Sunn, Silvana Lima, Prue Jeffries, Coco Ho, Stephanie Gilmore, and more, the e...more

Sally Fitzgibbons wins big in Portugal at 6 star WQS
by Pretty Tough
posted May 5, 2009 at 10:28am

The day belonged to Aussie Sally Fitzgibbons, 18, and the new generation of women’s professional surfing. Fitzgibbons, current ASP Women’s World Tour member, surfed every heat of her final assault flawless, methodical and mechanical as she swept the f...more

Dallas Friday wins Pro Women Wake Games
by Pretty Tough
posted April 27, 2009 at 12:44am

The King of Wake, the world’s premier pro wakeboarding series, kicked off the 2009 season in Orlando, Fla. with its first event of the year, the Air Nautique Wake Games. The four-day-long event, held at the Orlando Watersports Complex, April 23-26,...more

Tweens, teens, plastic and action sports
by Pretty Tough
posted April 24, 2009 at 12:06am

Looking for a way to keep track of your finances and connect to favorite artists and athletes? MYplash (from Plastic Cash Int’l) is a teen branded prepaid caid that targets sports and music enthusiasts looking for something other than a Walmart-br...more

We GRO Skateboarding Tour: Girl riders hit the road
by Pretty Tough
posted April 15, 2009 at 6:06pm

Girls Riders Organization just announced the 4th annual GRO skateboarding tour, a nation-wide series of female-only action sports instructional programs and gatherings of female skaters committed to inspiring girls to participate in action sports and enco...more

Cover Girl: Carissa Moore first girl on cover of Surfer Magazine in over 10 years
by Pretty Tough
posted April 15, 2009 at 1:46pm

High school student and rock star surfer Carissa Moore is the first female to grace the cover of Surfer Magazine in over a decade. Last November Moore became the youngest surfer to ever win a Triple Crown event just after splitting with longtime sponsor ...more

Silvana Lima claims maiden ASP Dream Tour Victory at Rip Curl Women’s Pro
by Pretty Tough
posted April 13, 2009 at 8:07pm

BELLS BEACH, Victoria (Sunday, April 12, 2009) – Brazil’s Silvana Lima, 24, claimed her maiden ASP Women’s World Tour victory today, defeating reigning two-time ASP Women’s World Champion and two-time defending event winner Stephanie Gilmore (AUS...more

The Alt Games - Collegiate Action Sports
by Pretty Tough
posted April 10, 2009 at 9:10pm

You’ve heard of the X Games, the Dew Tour and NCAA Championships. But how about The Alt Games? CBS Sports and CBS College Sports Network created The Alt Games (formerly known as the Collegiate Nationals) to provide a stage for competitors in action spo...more

Whoa, our calendar is maxed-out with women's sports this weekend!
by anngaff
posted April 1, 2009 at 3:33am

Was just trying to add the 2009 Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships to our calendar (they're airing on Versus at 4pm EST Saturday) and realized there was no room on Saturday! That's a good problem to have if you're a fan of women's sports. Here's wha...more

Steph Gilmore claims Roxy Pro crown
by Pretty Tough
posted March 8, 2009 at 4:54pm

Hands down the most dominant woman in the world right now, TWO-time world surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore is off to the perfect start in 2009, taking out the season opening Roxy Pro at Snapper Rocks on the Gold Coast....more

Silver Surfer: 72 year old Kitty Pechet wins ESA Open Women title
by Pretty Tough
posted February 25, 2009 at 9:59pm

72-year-old Grand Legend Kitty Pechet) didn’t let the 32 degree water temperature and 28 degree air temperature stop her from winning the Open Women’s title at the 2009 ew England Mid-Winter Regionals held February 20th in Narragansett, RI....more

World Cup Rewind: Lindsey Jacobellis back on top
by Pretty Tough
posted January 12, 2009 at 6:52pm

U.S. Snowboarding’s Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) threw down the gauntlet Sunday to win a World Cup snowboardcross race in Bad Gastein one day after finishing third....more

Surfing: Pauline Ado claims ASP World Junior Title
by Pretty Tough
posted January 6, 2009 at 4:36pm

France’s Pauline Ado, 17 has sensationally made ASP history as the first non-Australian female to claim the undisputed ASP Junior World Title, defeating opponent Bethany Hamilton (HAW), 18, in a hard-fought Final at the Billabong ASP World Junior Champ...more

Skaters jump in as foreclosures drain the pool
by Pretty Tough
posted December 30, 2008 at 7:18pm

December 30, 2008 - To end the year on an up note, we thought we’d look at the positive side of the economic meltdown. Across the nation as home builders are going bust, skaters are finding a surplus of deserted pools in which to perfect their acrobatic...more

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