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On the Ground at the 2025 Uninvited Invitational—Celebrating Women in Snowboarding

75 riders from 20 countries traveled to Woodward Park City, Utah, to compete in this year’s Uninvited Invitational. The all-female snowboard competition spanned over four days—two prequalifying days followed by a finals day and a community ride event. With a collective $60,000 worth of prize money, these ladies showed up, strapped in, and threw down on the street-style course. Related: […]

Miles Nagel | April 17, 2025
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Biggest Wave Of The Year Ridden By Woman Was Controversial

The biggest wave surfed this year on the World Surfing League XXL Competition has been surfed by a woman. Maya Gabeira surfed a 73.5-foot wave on February 11 in Nazaré, Portugal, winning the WSL’s 2020 women’s XXL Biggest Wave Award. Although the award is split into gender categories, Gabeira surfed a bigger wave than all the men.  The 2020 men’s […]

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Rouchelle Gilmore | September 18, 2020
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Archery The Original Sport For Gender Equality?

When one thinks of sport and equality there are few sports that spring to mind, yet World Archery claims their sport was one of the pioneers to equality in sport. Archery, a sport that originated as a means of hunting and gathering food, dating back to the Ancient Greeks, became a sport that both men and women enjoyed in the […]

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Rouchelle Gilmore | September 18, 2020
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Idaho Passes Fairness In Women’s Sports Act For Biological Women

Transgender women competing in women’s sport have created controversy for years at many different levels of competition. Earlier in 2020 Idaho lawmakers became the first to pass an act recognizing the unfairness of the situation, Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. The law looks to categorize women by their biological identity at birth rather than their gender identity. A petition of more […]

Rouchelle Gilmore | August 10, 2020
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Empowered Women Take Topless Photos In The Mountains?

NOW I have your attention… Do women need to take their clothes off to feel empowered? Women’s empowerment is a hot topic; the rise of social media has encouraged a revolution of expression through the visual medium of Instagram. How female empowerment has been displayed in the outdoor women’s space has changed in recent years, Instagram has helped, some may […]

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Rouchelle Gilmore | August 5, 2020
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First Woman Surfer To Surf Iconic West Australian ‘The Right’

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West Australian local Laura Macaulay 28, is the first woman to successfully surf gigantic wave ‘The Right‘. Situated about 25-miles (40km) off the southwest coast of WA near Walpole, many regard the wave as not surfable. The specific location of the wave is a bit of a secret. Waves on The Right can be some of the biggest in the […]

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Rouchelle Gilmore | June 19, 2020
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