Chanelle Sladics

Chanelle Sladics is an American professional snowboarder, surfer and skateboarder, born on 17 November 1984 in Newport Beach, California, who competes in women's slopestyle and rail jams. She has competed in seven Winter X Games and won a bronze medal in the 2007 slopestyle competition, finished in the top ten of the TTR World Snowboard Tour in 2009, and has served as an on-air reporter for ESPN at the Winter X Games. She started skateboarding and waterskiing at two and a half, began soccer at four and roller hockey at seven, and took up snowboarding after a two year recovery from an injury, taking second place in her first slopestyle pro/am event. She later won a gold medal at the USASA Junior World Championships in New Zealand.