Lindsea Lumpkin is a 13 year old, 8th grader who hails from Georgia. Lindsea started skiing at 2 years old at Sugar Mountain in North Carolina, and switched to Ski Beech (also in the North Carolina mountains) to participate in the Youth Learning Center under Jeb Brown, who has played a huge role in Lindsea’s early successes. She began snowboarding at the age of 3, on the bunny slopes just outside the cafeteria. Her father Tommy Lumpkin remembers fondly, “Lindsea must have made close to 100 runs down the short bunny hill that first day!”

Lindsea’s first terrain park run was at Silver Creek in West Virginia (part of Snowshoe Mountain Resort) at the age of 4. Her first competition was at The Edge of the World Series and her first sponsor was SkiNC.com. She was just 6 years old at that time and she’s been competing in snowboarding and skateboarding comps ever since.

She loves to snowboard, skateboard, and wakeboard, in that order, and Copper Mtn is her “home mountain” in Colorado. She was a fan of the park at Appalachian Ski Mountain and liked the longer trails at Sugar as well. Her favorite resort of all is Breckenridge, in Colorado. Lindsea has participated in trips to Windell’s Camp in Welches, Oregon in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. She calls it “the funnest place on Earth". Despite her young age, Lindsea has traveled to Buenos Aires, Rio, Iguassu Falls in Uruguay, Manaus, Brazil in the Amazon, Hawaii, Malta, Germany, England, Italy, Mexico Jamaica, and Canada, and of course numerous destinations in the United States!

Lindsea and her father Tommy have a special affinity for SkiNC.com (Ski North Carolina) as they were the first to sponsor Lindsea in any capacity and they have continued to sponsor her each of the last few seasons. Her first skateboard sponsor came in 2006 by Woody’s Halfpipe in Norcross, Georgia, and she’s also sponsored by Osiris Shoes, Bamboo Sk8, F1 Ceramic, Fuel Clothing, Smith Optics, Pure Island Surfboards, Chicadoo, Zion Skate Park/Shop, and PacSun. Snowboarding sponsors include SkiNC.com, Burton and Chicadoo.

Lindsea’s proof positive that natural talent supersedes the need to live on a ski mountain and she attributes much of her early success to her dad and coaches who really made a difference: Jeb Brown of Ski Beech, Mark Wilkinson of Aspen, Reed Silberman of Windell’s Camp, and the AVSC Coaches at Nationals.

She’s a straight-A student who says she wants to be a pro snowboarder and skateboarder, and she’s smart enough to have an alternative life-plan. If the snowboarding and skating thing doesn’t work out, she’d like to be a aeronautical engineer. She enjoys censored hip hop music, baggy basketball shorts and skateboard shoes.

Keep your eyes open for Lindsea at the events mentioned for the upcoming 2009-2010 season and into the future.

Lindsea has had 29 chances to medal at national championships since she began competing in 2005 and has medaled 17 of those twenty-nine times, receiving 4 national titles. She's riding for International Snowboard Training Centers at Copper Mountain, Colorado. Her coach is Jim Smith. Also, she won the Huff-Smith award given by Team Summit for the most passion and love of the sport in 2008 and won the Gene Gillis award in 2009 for excellence in snowboarding.

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