Sunday, July 15

All Girl Skate Jam Set for July 22 in New York

Press Release

Encinitas, CA - Mark your calendars as the second stop of the 2001 All Girl Skate Jam tour, the All Girl Skate Jam presented by BC Footwear, is set to take place Sunday, July 22nd at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, New York. For this event, the All Girl Skate Jam has teamed up with the Panasonic Shockwave Core Tour to bring spectators the best athletes and most exciting action in core sports today. And to top it off, it's all free to the public!

Sanctioned by the International Girls Skateboarding Association (IGSA), the All Girl Skate Jam presented by BC Footwear is an open street skateboarding competition. The contest will run between 9am-2pm and features three divisions, grom (7 & under), amateur and pro, so girls of all ages and abilities can participate. The biggest names in skateboarding including Amy Caron, Cnaan Omer, Stefanie Thomas, Lyn-z Adams, Luciana Ellington, Lindsi Thompson and Vanessa Torres will be competing for nearly $4,000 in prize money. In addition to all the skateboarding action, the event will include a festival-like atmosphere, complete with live music, food and sponsor booths where spectators can swing by to check out the new goods and get some freebies along the way.

"In order to continue to take the All Girl Skate Jam to next level, we have partnered with large events such as the Panasonic Shockwave Core Tour to show the world that these girl skateboarders rip," says event founder Patty Segovia. "We can't wait to get to this awesome venue in New York to show the thousands of spectators what progressive female skateboarding is all about."

In addition to BC Footwear, sponsors of the All Girl Skate Jam include Paper Magazine, Wahine Magazine and All Girl Skate Jam Skateboards. Footage from the All Girl Skate Jam presented by BC Footwear will be shown on Core Culture airing on Fox Sports Net. Air dates will be announced shortly.

The first stop of the 2001 All Girl Skate Jam tour, the Etnies All Girl Skate Jam presented by Velvet Eyewear, took place March 25th in Clearwater, Florida. First-place results were as follows: Street Pro - Vanessa Torres, Street Am - Hanna Lisk, Mini-Ramp Pro - Heidi Fitzgerald, Mini-Ramp Am - Hanna Lisk and Vert Pro - Candy Kraemer. The third stop of the 2001 All Girl Skate Jam tour will take place September 9th at the world-famous YMCA Skatepark in Encinitas, California.

The concept for the original All Girl Skate Jam germinated in 1990 when Patty Segovia helped organize the first girls' skateboarding demo in Reno, Nevada. Segovia, an established female action sports photographer, was disappointed by the lack of comparable recognition and luxuries for women then enjoyed by their male counterparts. After almost seven years of planning, Segovia pooled her resources from the action sports world along with her contacts among skateboarding's female pro ranks, and the first All Girl Skate Jam was born in 1997. Originally an annual event, the popularity of the contest and demand from female skaters around the world have caused the All Girl Skate Jam to incorporate into an international tour. In 2001, Segovia has branched out to attract female participants in surfing and snowboarding in order to develop the All Girl Board Jam tour. Part of the tour's proceeds will be donated to mental health charities that benefit those who suffer from mental illness and provide funding for ongoing research.

For additional information, directions and more, log on to www.allgirlskatejam.com.