WOMEN'S SKATEBOARD PARK: SKATEBOARDER TORRES WINS FIRST WOMEN'S GOLD MEDAL.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer Not many faces are recognizable in the infant sport of women's skateboarding. But its first champion, Vanessa Torres Vanessa Torres (born July 17, 1986 in Anaheim, California) is a professional skateboarder. Vanessa is one of the top skateboarding women in the world. She is featured in several women's skateboarding videos such as AKA: Girl Skater and Getting Nowhere Faster. , a rebellious teenager who thinks ``everyone in high school is very fake'' and all other sports besides skateboarding are ``pretty cheesy cheesy (che´ze) caseous. ,'' certainly has the right attitude to make a name for herself. Torres won the first X Games X Games Sports medicine The official Olympics of 'extreme sports' sponsored by ESPN, held annually during the summer. See Extreme sports. gold medal in women's skateboarding in the Skateboard Park event on Friday at Staples Center. On her gold-medal run, Torres scored an 82 after landing a ``backside disaster'' and a ``backside lip slide'' along a handrail. ``Any coverage of our sport is great,'' said Torres, the points leader on the World Cup Skateboarding World Cup of Skateboarding (WCSK8) is an international skateboarding federation, organising the official World Championships of Skateboarding series (taking place in many cities all around the world) and several other skateboard contests. tour this year and winner of the demonstration event at last year's X Games in Philadelphia. ``... It's pretty big. I didn't realize how big this is until I was like, `I'm going to get a medal for this.' '' The silver medal went to 14-year-old Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins (born September 21, 1989) is a professional skateboarder from Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California. History and Family Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins was born in San Diego and raised in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, although spent part of her childhood growing up in of Cardiff by the Sea, who scored a 79.67 on her first run. The bronze went to San Francisco's Amy Caron, the World Cup Skateboarding tour points leader last season, at 78.67. Just off the podium was 12-year-old Karen Feitosa, who flew in from Brazil by herself Friday morning and impressed both the crowd and her competitors by finishing fourth with a 78-point run. ``I'm so psyched about that little girl,'' said Torres, who splits her time between San Francisco and San Diego. ``She's killing it out there. She's going to be kicking my (expletive) in about 20 minutes.'' Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com |
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