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We would like to thank Shane and the City Lights Dream Center of Santa Ana for putting on their first all Girl Skate Day! The City Lights Dream Center offers a skate park to reach neighborhood children by offering them a positive and safe atmosphere. Cool Girl Decks was impressed by their skate park which includes a 13’ vert ramp, 8’ half pipe, 3.5’ mini ramp and a street course! Wow—the neighborhood girls must be stoked (we suppose the boys are as well!)!
Cool Girl Decks was proud to participate in the girls skate day by offering skating lessons by our very own pro, Holly Lyons. Cool Girls team member, Alize Montes, and a friend of CGD, Beccy, helped the girls with skating tips as well.
After skating and working up our appetites, the Dream Center provided a fantastic BBQ. Ten lucky female skaters were the proud new owners of a Cool Girls deck, in addition to some new tee’s provided by both CGD and Holly Lyons’ feature brand, Sk8Grl. Viking Helmets were awarded to the most improved girls at the end of the day and two lucky raffle winners took home complete decks, provided by Skelanimals and CGD.
CGD would like to thank Sk8Girl, Skelanimals and Viking Helmets for their participation.
Here’s to more all girl skate days—girl skaters rule!
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Simi Valley SkateLab Summer Skate Camp
August 17, 2007 – Team pro, Holly Lyons was asked to come up to the Simi Valley Skate Lab for a Meet & Greet, where they were having a skate camp with about 65 kids and 6 were girls. She made it up there and was able to meet the kids, demo the wooden bowl they have, watch them compete for prizes, and she had two Cool Girl’s Pro model skateboards that she raffled off for free.
“It is so much fun to hang out with the kids when they are learning or new to skateboarding. They get so excited and it’s just so much fun for them!” Holly said.
She also brought up some of her SK8GRL t-shirts and gave them out to the girls and some of the Mom’s.
On August 25th, the skate lab with be having an etnies girls get on board clinic for girls only. So, if you’re in the area, check it out!
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Holly's autograph signing
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Holly with one of the raffle winners
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Athletes and Celebrities Gather to Celebrate the Launch of the
Supergirl “Actionista” Collection in Los Angeles
–Event Raises Over $6,000 for Boarding for Breast Cancer–
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Holly Lyons
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Brooke Burke & Holly Beck
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Serena Brooke
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Alize Montes
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Host Committee
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9 Star in Los Angeles – The action sports community, pro-athletes and celebrities came together on Thursday, July 19 to celebrate the launch of the Supergirl actionista capsule collection at Los Angeles-based Nine Star and to show support for Boarding for Breast Cancer(B4BC).
The evening’s festivities kicked off with pink carpet arrivals and professional surfer and event MC, Holly Beck introducing the extraordinary group of action sports athletes on the host committee which included: pro surfers Serena Brooke, Leilani Gryde, Mary Osborne, and Courtney Conlogue; snowboarder Roberta Rodger; and pro skaters Holly Lyons, Lauren Perkins and seven year old skateboarding prodigy Alize Montes.
Special guests Brooke Burke, co-host of CBS’ Rock Star, KayCee Stroh from High School Musical and Lauren Strom from Flight 29 Down also came out to show their support of the Supergirl empowerment message and to help raise awareness about the mission of B4BC.
“It was fantastic to acknowledge the female action sports athletes as role models and figureheads of empowerment for young girls,” said Justine Chiara, Executive Director of B4BC. “The event was an awesome opportunity for our organization to reach out to young women about how important an active lifestyle and early detection are in the fight against breast cancer.”
Throughout the evening, guests got an exclusive opportunity to purchase products from the limited-edition Supergirl collection with partial proceeds benefiting B4BC. The collection includes: shoes by etnies Girl; halter sundresses by FEW; flip-flops by Havaianas; t-shirts and a bikini by Rip Curl; a tank top and t-shirt by Sk8grl; a t-shirt by Surf Diva, custom surfboards by Guy Okazaki and one-of-a-kind Supergirl artwork by Colleen Hanley.
A highlight of the evening was the Supergirl fashion show where models showcased the complete collection for the cheering crowd. A raffle was also a high point benefiting B4BC. Featured items on the raffle included limited-edition Supergirl skate decks autographed by the host committee plus a hand-painted skate deck and a Guy Okazaki surfboard painted live at the party by San Clemente-based surf artist Colleen Hanley.
DJ Katrina spun music throughout the night while guests snacked on Wahoo’s tacos and Sambazon acai bowls. Go211.com, the premier community hub for action sports athletes and enthusiasts, was also onsite providing an opportunity for party goers to join their online network.
For the latest information regarding Supergirl, visit www.beasupergirl.com.
Warner Bros. Consumer Products represents Supergirl on behalf of DC Comics.
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About Supergirl:
Warner Bros. has re-imagined the S-shield, the universally recognized symbol of strength and leadership and created a powerful symbol for today’s action sports girl. The collection of merchandise captures and recognizes the empowerment spirit of these girls whose independence and creativity represents a style all its own.
About Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.
About DC Comics
DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world and home to such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Sandman. These DC Super Heroes and others have starred in comic books, movies, television series (both animated and live-action) and cyberspace, thrilling audiences of all ages for generations. DC Comics’ Web site is located at www.dccomics.com.
About Nine Star
Nine Star Inc. is Southern California’s premier retailer of skate, surf, snow and bmx goods. With locations in Los Angeles at Olympic and Sepulveda and in Mission Viejo at Crown Valley and the 5 in the Kaleidoscope Courtyards, Nine Star offers expert staff, music, art exhibits, a mini skate ramp, shop services and a media lounge.
About Boarding For Breast Cancer (B4BC)
myspace.com/boardingforbreastcancer
Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC) is a nonprofit, youth-focused education, awareness and fundraising foundation designed to increase awareness about breast cancer, the importance of early detection and the value of an active lifestyle. Boarding for Breast Cancer was inspired by Monica Steward, who started her battle with breast cancer at the age of 26.
Supergirl and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics.
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FUEL TV interviewing Alize
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Alize tearing it up
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Alize was the hit of the night
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Lea & Alize
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Holly & Brittany
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Holly was also a hit
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Brittany Krause
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Holly w/ her etnies team manager, Laura Lynn Murphey
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Holly w/ her Sk8grl tees
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Sk8grl team member, Lea Taylor
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Jennifer Mangiacapre & Britt
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The Supergirl fashion show
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July 14-15 - The LA Calendar Motorcycle Show
Cool Girl Decks and Sk8grl Clothing had a booth set up at this year's LA Calendar Motorcycle Show in Long Beach, CA. It was a great day full of sunshine with cool air coming off from the water. Our booth was in a perfect location next to the water and where all foot traffic walked by so they got to check out the fun girl skateboard products that we had to offer. There were a lot of families that came to our booth and Dad's who bought their daughters or nieces a board or some tops. A couple little girls kept coming by and asking Holly questions about being a girl skater, they were really cute and were more and more talkative each time. We met a German family too that was so happy to see a booth all about female skateboarding.
There were thousands of people through out the day, and the show also offered music on the center stage during the day along with a lot of motorcycle booths, clothing booths, calendar pin up girls with their calendars, food, and lot more.
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May 12th, 2007 marked the 3rd annual Pro Tec Pool Party contest at Vans skateboard park in Orange, California. The contest went off as usual and everybody was skating great! Cara-Beth Burnside won the pro girls division. Rune Glifberg won the Pro division and Chris Miller won the Masters division.
The highlight of the evening was when our own Holly Lyons was awarded the overall 2006 Pro Women's Bowl Rider by World Cup Skateboarding.
Holly was honored along with Rune Glifberg, Steve Caballero, and Benji Galloway as the overall title winners.
The plaques were very special because they had each winners names, along with their contest results engraved in the plaque for all of 2006.
In '06 Holly traveled thousands of miles, spent months away from home, and we just wanted Holly to know that all of her hard work is very much appreciated. So from all of us here at Cool Girl Decks, congratulations!
Cool Girls' Team Pro Holly Lyons is our first of what we hope is many team members to be ranked #1! Holly Lyons you rock! |
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Holly w/ her #1 plaque
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Holly & Jodie McDonald
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The World Cup of Skateboarding 2006 Concrete Bowl Champions Award Winners (left to right) Benji Galloway, Steve Caballero, Holly Lyons, and Rune Glifberg
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The voice of World Cup Skating, Dave Duncan, 2006 champ, Holly Lyons, and Don Bostick, president of World Cup Skateboarding
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March 28, 2007
 On March 28th at the San Dieguito Academy for high school kids, Holly Lyons went to talk to two classes for the Carrier Community Connection Day. This gives the students an opportunity to listen to and be able to ask professional people from various types of work what it's like. They then have a better idea of the work and lifestyle opportunities in the future.
This is the second time in the last couple of months that Holly has been invited to speak at schools, and let them know what life is like for a professional female skater. There are always pro's and con's to every profession. Holly talks about both and also adds some stories and answers questions.
This is a great opportunity for kids of all ages to see what life is like past school. There were also Lawyers, Doctors, Politicians, Engineers, Nurses, a Yoga Teacher and more.
Holly loves giving back and sharing her stories. She likes to inspire kids to follow their own dreams, listen to themselves, and know that there is a way to make a living no matter what it is that you love to do. We want to thank Holly once again for taking time out of her BUSY schedule to talk to the kids and make a difference for them while they are growing up.
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December 12, 2006
Youth are inherently curious about what they will be when they grow up. Many students never actually talk first hand with a pilot, doctor, professional skateboarder, or plumber to find out just what they do on a daily basis. Exploring their career options at an early age helps widen their reality base of the world of work.
With this goal in mind, I was asked to be part of Career Day on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at Jefferson Leadership Academies in the Long Beach Unified School District. The goal was to have the students interact with a wide variety of professionals and occupational groups. This will create an understanding that will help them prepare for their future career paths. Students in 6th through 8th grade signed up to see which occupations seemed interesting to them. I was told that kids curios about being a professional skateboarder was filled up first.
I spoke to three different groups in Mr. Goodman's classroom. I told my story of how I got into skateboarding, what has been my driving force, and all the ups and downs that come with being a professional athlete. Including injuries, contests, traveling, sponsorship and more. At the end of each class, the kids asked me questions, and we brought posters to hand out, and the kids lined up for autographs and stickers.
It was really fun being able to share my experience with all the kids at Jefferson. I think they thought it was cool to see a girl skater, and that not just guys can grow up to be a pro. I got the chance to meet some of the other presenters of the day, which was really fun. I think this is a great event for the kids, so they can see that there is an infinite number of ways to make money. The important thing is that you can find a job out there, or create one that is perfect for you. A job that you make money at, and can also have fun at.
Holly Lyons
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October 7th, 2006
 This was the first ever 100% skateboarding KEEP-A-BREAST art show. Curated and photo documented by photographer Desiree Astorga. Our own, Holly Lyons was honored to be one of a few female skateboarders to have a cast mold for the KEEP-A-BREAST art show in San Francisco, Cailfornia.
Matt Dove painted Holly's cast and did an amazing job. Other castees are the singer Pink, Bam Margera, Elissa Steamer, Jen O'Brien and more. Each cast will be up for auction from Oct. 17-26th to raise money for the Keep-A-Breast foundation.
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