Roxy are proud to announce three new members to their UK team. Roxy, the leading boardsport company for girls and women and the little sister of Quiksilver, already have a very strong UK team which includes Aviemore's own British Snowboard Champion and Olympian, Lesley McKenna. Up until now Lesley has been the only Scottish lass on the UK Roxy Team but with a bit of encouragement from Lesley, Roxy UK have taken three new Speyside girls under their wing and look forward to helping them develop in their chosen boardsports. The new girls on the team are snowboarders Ashley Smith, who is 15 and from Newtonmore and Abigail Dempster who is 12 and from Aviemore. The snowboarders are joined by local windsurfer Chloe Robertson who is also 15 and is from Kingussie. Both Ashley and Abigail are members of the Cairngorm Snowboard club and have been riding for 3 years. Chloe is a member of the already very successful Loch Inch Monsters and has only been windsurfing for one year. All three girls have excelled in their sports and all show great talent and enthusiasm for the boardsport life. Lesley hopes that with a little help from Roxy they will all go on to be successful as she has been.
"It is so exciting to see these girls riding on the snow and water. They are all very talented and I think they will go a long way. I am proud that Roxy have decided to sponsor them and I hope that I can help them along the way by passing on some of my experience.I think it is great that they are all also from the Spey Valley and I hope they inspire other young local girls to get into boardsports"
Ashley, Abigail and Lesley all headed to Loch Insh on Saturday to cheer Chloe on in her 24 hour windsurf event. The 24 hour sponsored event was organised by the Loch Insh Monsters coach and mentor Johnathan Freshwater and was held to help raise money for some new equipment for the team who compete in the Team 15 series of events around Scotland. Chloe managed to windsurf the whole night through, winning all the competitions in her section and has promised to teach the other Roxy girls to windsurf in the near future. The sponsored event was very successful and raised over £4000 for the Loch Insh Monsters.
The New Roxy Team mates were happy to hang out with one another and are very excited to be part of Team Roxy. Abigail had this to say,
" I am so happy to be part of Roxy, just really, really excited. It is so good and so nice we are all from the same area."
Abigail and Ashley hope to be heading off to the snow in the summer and autumn while Lesley will head down to New Zealand to compete in the World Cup down there in September. Chloe will compete all through the summer with the highlight being the Tiree wave classic in October. For more news on Team Roxy please check out www.roxy.com