Tina Basich is an American snowboarder

Snowboarding

Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...

, originally from Sacramento, California

Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...

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Career

Basich began snowboarding in 1986, when the sport was still new. She is noted for winning a variety of competitions from the 1980s onward, and for helping in the design of outerwear and snowboards for women, including one of the first women's pro-models for Sims Snowboard

Tom Sims

Tom Sims, Born 1950, is a former World Snowboarding Champion , World Champion Skateboarder and founder of Sims Snowboards and Sims Skateboards...

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Achievements

• First woman to successfully land a backside 720 in competition (at the 1998 Winter X Games Big Air)
• Shares the title of having first women's pro-model board with Shannon Dunn-Downing
  Shannon Dunn-Downing
  Shannon Dunn-Downing is an American snowboarder and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal in the halfpipe event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, becoming the first American woman to win a medal in snowboarding. She finished 5th at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City...
  
  
• Was one of the founders of Boarding for Breast Cancer
  Boarding for Breast Cancer
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• Broke her right fibula trying a 720 at Mammoth
• Hosted girl action sports TV show GKA
• Autobiography: "Pretty Good for a Girl" details her snowboarding career
• Opened a shop in her hometown called My Favorite Things
• Briefly dated Dave Grohl
  Dave Grohl
  David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for Foo Fighters; the former drummer for Nirvana and Scream; and the current drummer for Them Crooked Vultures...
  
  

Competition history

• 2000 G Shock Air and Style - Corner Challenge - 4th
• 2000 Sims Invitational World Snowboard Championships - Whistler
  Whistler, British Columbia
  Whistler is a Canadian resort town in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the province of British Columbia, Canada, approximately north of Vancouver...
  
   = Big Air - 2nd
• 1999 Boarding for Breast Cancer - Big Air - 1st
• 1998 Winter X Games - Snowboard Big Air - 1st
• 1998 Winter X Games - Snowboard Slopestyle - 6th
• 1997 Winter X Games Snowboard Big Air - 3rd
• 1997 ESPN Freeride - Aspen
  Aspen
  Populus section Populus, of the Populus genus, includes the aspen trees and the white poplar Populus alba. The five typical aspens are all native to cold regions with cool summers, in the north of the Northern Hemisphere, extending south at high altitudes in the mountains. The White Poplar, by...
  
  - Big Air - 1st
• 1997 King of the Hill - Extreme - 2nd
• 1997 US Open - Halfpipe - 2nd