Barrett Christy

Barrett Christy is an American snowboarder who was a member of the first U.S. Snowboarding team at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. Born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, she learned to snowboard in 1991 and has been competing since the mid-1990s. At the Winter X Games she won more medals than any other female athlete, until Lindsey Jacobellis passed her, with firsts in big air and slopestyle in 1997 and in halfpipe in 1999. Her signature move is called the Barrett Roll, and she oversees the design of women snowboards for Gnu Snowboards, including the Gnu Barrett Christy Pro Model, the longest-running women pro model snowboard. She lives in Gig Harbor, Washington.