Jessie Van Roechoudt is a professional skateboarder from Kelowna

Kelowna

Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...

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British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

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Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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Skateboarding

Roechoudt is part of a very small group of professional female skaters. As a child, she was on her school's volleyball team, but was inspired to begin skating when she saw other skateboarders at school.http://www.thesideproject.com/jessievanroechoudt.htm She started with a plastic banana board at the age of 14, and bought a commercial board 2 years later. http://yorachelswan.tripod.com/sk8politics/id1.html

Skateboard videos

Roechoudt is featured on the all-female skate DVD Getting Nowhere Faster

Getting Nowhere Faster

Getting Nowhere Faster is a 2004 American documentary about female skateboarders. The documentary features skateboarding footage of the world's best female skateboarders, as well as a fiction film called The Skatepark Hauntings of Debbie Escalante...

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