Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins

Lyndsey Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins Pastrana is an American professional skateboarder, born on 21 September 1989 in San Diego, raised in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, and with part of her childhood in Sayulita, Mexico, just outside Puerto Vallarta. She started surfing and skateboarding at six, when her brother Tyler bought her a membership at the Encinitas YMCA, and also played soccer, baseball, basketball and gymnastics. Her legal name is Lyndsey, Adams is her middle name, and she took the nickname Lyn-Z in the fourth grade. She often customizes her griptape, and many of her boards carry the letters RIP in memory of her father, who died in December 2003. She married Travis Pastrana on 29 October 2011, after he proposed on stage at the Nitro Circus Live tour in Las Vegas.