My 15 minutes continues with a Instagram post from the Olympics "Oldest Female Competitive Skateboarder"

This amazing post on the Olympics Instagram posted at 10:00 am Friday and I see my messages just exploding. I saw World Skate Games on the collaboration and then I see the Olympic rings and the Olympics IG.
I was like wait what!
Thank you to all my friends that have acknoledged this cool thing. I hope it gets more eyes on Slalom Skateboarding, Downhill Skateboarding, Vert and Luge so one day they make it to the Olympics. I think Vert would be the easiest since it has a small footprint compared to the other 3 sports. Vert is fun to watch and there are some amazing skaters. Like Arisa Trew and JD Sanchez from Northern California.
The Olympics posted about Vert Skateboarding which is cool. "What is vert skateboarding?" Tony always gets mentioned when it comes to vert.
I wish they went further back to Tony Alva or Steve Olson and many others that started back in the Hester Series like myself. There were many women who founded the early vert riding like Peggy Oki from the legendary Dogtown skaters Cindy Whitehead Patty Hoffman Vicky Vickers Leilani Kiyabu-Glasheen and many more females. They seem to start vert in the 80's not the 70's.

Go Skateboarding Day and Women Skateboarders get some notice

Big day for women in skateboarding today. Super stoked for my skate friends Cindy Whitehead, Laura Thornhill Caswell, Patti McGee, Di Dootson and Robin Logan that made it out to Washington DC for the innoskate event. My flyaway skateboard helmet is being inducted to the Smithsonian collection as well. I was suppose to be working on a photo shoot that got pushed back a few weeks and so I didn't go. Thank you to Betsy Binckley Gordon and Jane Rogers for including me in with these amazing women.

The International Association of Skateboard Companies is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Go Skateboarding Day this week by partnering with the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C.

The two-day festival dedicated to skateboarding called Innoskate takes place this Friday and Saturday, June 21st and June 22nd, in the nation’s capitol. The event is a big deal for skateboarding and will provide a grand stage to showcase the sport to the rest of the country.

The Smithsonian welcomes skateboarders for Go Skateboarding Day - Shop-Eat-Surf.com Here are the items Cindy is inducting to the Smithsonian. Cindy Whitehead will be discussing innovation in skate footwear and fashion and its influence on the mainstream. photo: ian logan

Saturday's Innoskate program will be webcast. 10-year anniversary of Go Skateboarding Day