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February’s Skate Team Report

Lauren at ASR: Grrr! Shecky, who’s behind her, doesn’t seem to notice anything out of the ordinary.

Elissa Steamer had quite the busy January! After the holidays, which she largely spent in Ft. Myers, Fla., she went to Colorado, San Diego and Arizona. She spent Jan. 9-11 in Keystone, Colo., for the Zumiez 100K event, which Zumiez holds yearly to reward its employees who sell more than $100,000 worth of gear throughout the year. Elissa went to the event last year, and had such a good time (i.e. played so much blackjack) that she was pretty excited when she was invited to go again this year. After the Zumiez event, she returned to San Francisco for a little over a week before heading down to San Diego for the ASR trade show, which took place Jan. 20-22. etnies is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2006, so the festivities were aplenty. On Friday night a party was held in etnies’ honor, and on Saturday two autograph signings were held, with Elissa taking part in the second one. Needless to say, etnies’ 20th birthday was celebrated throughout the weekend. Elissa flew back to San Francisco after the trade show, and a few days later headed out to Arizona to enjoy the good weather and get some skating done. She is currently in SF, and will be leaving again in about a week for the Global Assault contest happening in Australia. The winner of the girls’ contest gets a spot in the finals of the men’s contest, so a lot is at stake! Stay tuned for updates about how Elissa and the rest of the etnies crew does down under.

Elissa grew a sick ‘stache to keep warm in Colorado…

Lauren Perkins has been at home in Huntington Beach, Calif., lately, doing her schoolwork and trying to get ahead of herself so she doesn’t have to go crazy catching up when she returns from traveling. She has also been on a mission skating and finding time to get out and shoot some photos. She, like Elissa, was down at the ASR trade show in San Diego to take part in the etnies 20th anniversary celebration. In between the schoolwork, the skating and the trade show, Lauren has found quite a bit of time to come down to the etnies offices and give loads of feedback and input about our gear…in fact, she’ll have some special sample colorways on her feet soon, so keep your eyes peeled! She’ll be leaving next week for the contest in Australia, as well.

Evelien Bouilliart celebrated her Sweet 16 on January 30, as you may have read on the site. We love birthdays around here, so we’ll say it again—Happy Birthday, Evelien! Unfortunately, she has been a little under the weather so she didn’t feel the best on her birthday, but she still had a good time. Evelien, like Lauren, is back in school and has been concentrating on that as of late. She will also be flying to Australia next week for the contest. She already got a start to the contest year, and in quite the fashion, with a first place finish! The Pop! Session Winter Bash went down early last month, Jan. 6-8, to be exact, and Evelien won it with ease.

We’ll have updates on the contest in Australia in coming weeks…make sure to wish Elissa, Lauren and Evelien good luck in the blog!