Day in the Life: Isabel Villegas

Owaves Team Intern, Snowboarder, Student

Day in the Life: Isabel Villegas   Meet Isabel Villegas, a Community Developer at Owaves! She is a student working towards her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Isabel loves hanging out with her family and friends and she also LOVES going to concerts and Disneyland! Location San Diego, CA What’s your personal motto? “Be Kind” What’s your favorite vegetable? Broccoli What’s your …

Day in the Life: Shaun White

Owaves Team Celebrity, Entrepreneur, Musician, Olympian, Skater, Snowboarder, Surfer Leave a Comment

Day in the Life: Shaun White Five-time Olympian Shaun White retired after the Beijing 2022 games. Formerly known as snowboarding’s “Flying Tomato” for his voluminous red hair and steller halfpipe tricks that gained him three Olympic gold medals in 2006, 2010 and 2018, Shaun White-inspired both awe and envy in fellow competitors. When his peers settled on the chill vibes of just …

Katie Tsuyuki

Day in the Life: Katie Tsuyuki

Royan Olympian, Snowboarder Leave a Comment

Day in the Life: Katie Tsuyuki Katie Tsuyuki made her Olympic debut at Sochi 2014, where she missed a spot in the final by one place, finishing as top Canadian female half-piper in 13th place overall, best Canadian out of both sexes. Tsuyuki had made her World Cup debut in December 2005 in Whistler. She would record her best World Cup result …

Cassie Cava

Day in the Life: Cassie Cava

Royan Paralympian, Snowboarder Leave a Comment

Day in the Life: Cassie Cava Cassie Cava is a 24 year-old Paralympic Snowboarding Candidate, Great Britain Parasnowboard and Paratriathlon Team Member. After six years of limited and painful activity following a failed reconstructive surgery, Cassie had her right foot amputated below the knee in October 2015. She just finished her first season racing on the Parasnowboard World Cup Circuit and plans …

Owen Pick

Day in the Life: Owen Pick

Royan Paralympian, Snowboarder Leave a Comment

Day in the Life: Owen Pick Owen Pick is a soldier who lost a leg in Afghanistan and is now a snowboard sensation… He tried out the sport after being discharged from the Army and within 18 months got ranked in the top ten. The 23 year-old’s skills and daredevil spirit have made him a prime contender for the 2018 Winter Paralympics …

Arielle Gold

Day in the Life: Arielle Gold

Royan Olympian, Snowboarder Leave a Comment

Day in the Life: Arielle Gold Only 19 years-old, Arielle Gold is widely credited for pushing the sport of women’s snowboarding. At the age of 17, she was the youngest member of the US 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic halfpipe team. In 2013, she was the second-youngest snowboarder to win a world championship. Just two weeks ago, Arielle took her third medal in …