Following championship skater Jordyn Barratt\u2019s appearance in 2017 as the first woman to compete at Dew Tour, organizers of the annual event announced Monday that women\u2019s individual pro Skateboard Park and Skateboard Street competitions have been added to the lineup.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to Dew Tour adding the women\u2019s competitions,\u201d said park skateboarder Nora Vasconcellos (USA) in a statement. \u201cIt will be great to have it in Long Beach as well; it will be local for most of the skaters and rad for the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dew Tour\u2019s celebration of skateboard culture will run four days June 28 to July 1 at the Long Beach Convention Center and Rainbow Park Lagoon, and is free and open to the public. The competition will feature newly designed Street and Park courses, as well as a partner village and festival, art and film features, local food and drink vendors and a public skatepark, according to the release.<\/p>\n
Dew Tour will also be televised on NBC, as well as live-streamed on Facebook Live and Periscope, among other platforms.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince The Enthusiast Network began producing Dew Tour in 2016, we\u2019ve been building to add women\u2019s skateboarding competitions,\u201d Adam Cozens, Dew Tour VP and general manager, said in a statement. \u201cWe are extremely happy to showcase the world\u2019s best female skaters this year at Dew Tour with the help of global streaming platforms and NBC TV broadcast.\u201d<\/p>\n
In partnership with Dew Tour, the Women\u2019s Skateboarding Alliance<\/a>\u00a0(WSA) will serve as the event\u2019s sport organizer, which will feature eight of the world\u2019s best female skateboarders in Street competitions Saturday and Park competitions on Sunday. WSA is a global management and consulting agency dedicated to representing women\u2019s skateboarding.<\/p>\n \u201cWith participation and progression in women\u2019s skateboarding at an all-time high, the timing couldn\u2019t be better for integrating women into this year\u2019s Dew Tour program,\u201d stated WSA Founder and President Mimi Knoop. \u201cWSA is thrilled to partner with such an iconic event property, and we look forward to working together to foster the development of these emerging athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n With Dew Tour\u2019s dates coinciding with Agenda, it’s set to be \u201cthe ultimate action sports weekend,\u201d organizers announced. For more information on Agenda Festival on Saturday June 30, visit the link here<\/a>.<\/p>\n https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/arts-culture\/all-american-boyband-brockhampton-to-headline-agenda-festival\/<\/p>\n For more information on Dew Tour, presented by MOUNTAIN DEW(R) and produced by TEN: The Enthusiast Network<\/a>\u00a0and the schedule of events, visit the website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following championship skater Jordyn Barratt\u2019s appearance in 2017 as the first woman to compete at Dew Tour, organizers of the annual event announced Monday that women\u2019s individual pro Skateboard Park and Skateboard Street competitions have been added to the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":16457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-dew-tour","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}