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Gretchen Bleiler, the Madonna of snowboarding, poetry in motion, she deserves to be acknowledged as the most fearsome competitor in the glacial loop of winter x-games most likely known as the halfpipe. After all, people dubbed her as ‘she is the one with the deadly crippler’, a snowboarding maneuver that flips you 540 degrees in mid-air. In the female halfpipe category in the annual x-games competition, Bleiler always seemingly rise above from the occasion and has its fair share in collecting medals as far as the other female snowboarders are concerned.

Making a name for herself, her popularity is widely spreading and similarly has the same level as one of the great extreme sports athletes of all time. While not spending her time focusing on honing her snowboarding skills in the halfpipe, Gretchen devotes her time in fashion designing, making signature clothing lines from popular brands of snowboarding gear namely K2 and Oakley. Fashions seems to favor her and she took the media by storm and entertained numerous commercial ads and hosted different T.V. shows along with cameo featured as herself in several comedy shows. Christian magazine, men’s magazine is no exception too, as she was featured in FHM and Maxim, exposing her slender, well-fit body as an athlete.

Of course, her energetic and friendly personality has made the youth look up on her and was nominated as the ‘Teen’s Choice Award’. Quite a role-model and as well as a wholesome citizen, Gretchen donated from several sports clinic in her hometown, Aspen, Colorado. People in her neighborhood said, she still is the same old girl next door who delightfully smiles and greets you even though her career is high as the Alps of her hometown. Even with her hectic schedules, she still has time for attending banquets and graduation programs at Aspen, educating students how she persevere to attained the thriving career she now has.

With her booming career and her pleasing qualities towards the media and of course, to her fans, Gretchen surely is blessed with traits of a role-model and a tenacious snowboarder. Unquestionably, Gretchen Bleiler is definitely one of the few athletes that mix with fame, fashion and fierceness, in the halfpipe and on the camera.