Pretty Good for a Girl, 9780060532208
Paperback
Defying expectations, one woman carved her own path in snowboarding history.

Pretty Good for a Girl

the autobiography of a snowboarding pioneer

$47.04

  • Paperback

    225 pages

  • Release Date

    30 September 2003

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Summary

Pretty Good for a Girl: The Tina Basich Story

When Tina Basich grabbed her rented snowboard and headed to the mountains in Lake Tahoe, snowboarding wasn’t even considered a sport … yet. It was the beginning, and could have easily gone the way of many other sports and become dominated by male-driven competition.

But not with Tina on the scene …

Comments like “You’re pretty good … for a girl” only pushed her harder to be the best and to prove she was more than just a t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780060532208
ISBN-10:0060532203
Author:Tina Basich, Kathleen Gasperini
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:Collins
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:225
Edition:1st
Release Date:30 September 2003
Weight:395g
Dimensions:228mm x 153mm x 17mm
About The Author

Tina Basich

Tina Basich is an artist, musician, and professional snowboarder who was born and raised in Sacramento, California. When she’s not following snowstorms and riding mountains around the world, she’s hosting her own girls’ action-sports TV show or organizing fund-raisers for her nonprofit foundation, Boarding for Breast Cancer. She lives in Northern California.

Kathleen Gasperini is a writer and an activist. She founded W.i.G. magazine and cofounded Boarding for Breast Cancer and Label Networks. Her writing has appeared in numerous action-sports and alternative publications during the past thirteen years, and she is a frequent speaker about youth culture. She lives in Venice, California.

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