Jessica Woody- Pro Female Skateboarding Champion
Jessica Woody
Age 19
Birthplace: Manhattan, New York
Height:5'7''
Weight:100lbs
Medals Won: 2000 X Games-Gold
2000 World Championship in England-Gold
2000 Australian Outback Vert Comp.-Gold
2000 World Class Vert Comp.-Gold
2001 Freestyle Comp, NY, NY-Gold
2001 Australian Outback Vert Comp.-Gold
2001 World Class Vert Comp.-Gold
2001 World Championship in Russia-Gold
2001 Auggie All Female Competition-Gold
2002 Grand Prix All Female Comp.-Gold
2002 Independent Free For All-Silver
2002 World Class Vert Comp.-Gold
2002 Freestyle Comp., Philadelphia-Gold
2002 Auggie All Female Competition-Gold
2002 Australian Outback Vert Comp.-Gold
2002 X Games-Silver
2003 Freestyle Comp., Denver-Gold
2003 Hawk Vert Comp., San Fran.-Gold
An Interview with Miss Woody:
In Her Own Words
Once upon a time, I was a lonely girl skater in a big city. I went to the indoor park a few days a week, but there were never any other girls there and the guys seemed to want little to do with the girl in the corner teaching herself kickturns. As much as I loved skating, it was necessary to give myself a serious pep talk to get motivated to go back to the park each day.
On the wall beside my desk there was a picture of Jessie Van that I'd torn out of a magazine, one of the few pictures of a female skater that I'd seen in print. Each time I needed motivation, I looked at that picture and it reminded me how much I enjoyed skateboarding, how much I had a right to be a skateboarder, and how it wasn't worth it to let loneliness and lame people get in the way of that. I went back to the park.
I'm frustrated by the small amount of skate resources online (and off) that include girls in the skateboarding world. The ratio of male to female skaters is ridiculously lopsided, and the representation of girl skaters in the skateboarding media is even more so. But, I try and I kick ass everyday, that is the way it needs to be. Girls kick ass and they will eventually except that we are better in some aspects of the sport.
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