Cindy Whitehead

Cindy Whitehead is an American professional skateboarder and activist, born on 15 June 1962, a pioneer of vertical skateboarding who was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2016 and is married to the photographer Ian R. Logan. She began freestyle skateboarding at Hermosa Beach Pier alongside skaters such as Steve Rocco, and began skating halfpipe after Skateboard World Skatepark opened in Torrance, California. In early 1978 she competed at the Hang Ten Olympics at Magic Mountain, performing a freestyle routine to Swingtown by the Steve Miller Band and placing third for girls aged 13 to 17. That year she was photographed on the plexiglass 360 ramp at Fountain Valley Skatepark for Wild World of Skateboarding Magazine, the first woman with a centre photographic feature and two-page profile in skateboarding, and placed fourth in her age group at the 1978 Skateboarding Nationals.