Tina Basich

Tina Basich is an American snowboarder from Sacramento, California, born on June 29, 1969, who began snowboarding in 1986 when the sport was still new. She is noted for being the first woman to land a backside 720 in competition, at the 1998 Winter X Games Big Air, where she took first place. Her results include third in Big Air at the 1997 Winter X Games and second in Big Air at the 2000 Sims Invitational World Snowboard Championships in Whistler. She played a part in the design of outerwear and snowboards for women, including one of the first women pro models for SIMS Snowboards alongside Shannon Dunn-Downing, was one of the founders of Boarding for Breast Cancer, hosted the girl action sports TV show GKA, and wrote the 2003 autobiography Pretty Good for a Girl.