📆 December 12th, 2024 |
👩 Leanne Pelosi |
🏫 Olympic Village Events Center |
🕕 Doors at 6PM. Show starts at 7PM |
📺 Streaming Live |
💵 $14,000+ in Prizes |
🎁 Two Giveaways: Online & In-person |
💛 100% for the Scotty Lapp Foundation |
🍗 Food from MOGROG |
🍺 NA, Wine, and Beer |
Livestream Starts at 7pm Pacific
Meet Leanne Pelosi
Leanne Pelosi grew up in Calgary, Canada, and began snowboarding in high school with her younger brother. After finishing a BSc in Biomechanics at the University of Calgary and leaving her soccer aspirations behind, she made the move to Whistler British Columbia. She has been a professional snowboarder for over a decade and is known for being one of the most well-rounded professional snowboarders in the field. From her early competition experiences on the pro tour, to her current backcountry approach, Leanne has woven her passion for filmmaking into her snowboard career.
In her down time, you will find her producing or directing content through her company, Runway Films . Outside snowboarding, Leanne is known for her love for animals and camper living with her fiancé Jeff Keenan and their dog Bella Coola. All photography by Ben Girardi.
"Unexpected Turns"
Life doesn’t always follow the path we expect—sometimes it zigs when we thought it would zag. In her show, "Unexpected Turns," professional snowboarder and filmmaker Leanne Pelosi shares how she navigated the twists and turns of her journey from transitioning out of a soccer career to pushing boundaries in the backcountry and embracing the duality of motherhood and passion. Through powerful stories of resilience, risk-taking, and community, Leanne offers lessons learned in the mountains that can inspire us all to embrace the unknown, carve our own path, and uplift others along the way.
Leanne's Nonprofit Beneficiary: Scotty Lapp Foundation
The Scotty Lapp Foundation is dedicated to empowering youth by making ski, snowboard and skate more accessible to underserved communities and assisting athletes in reaching their full potential. #Skiforscotty
The best way to support The Scotty Lapp Foundation is to make a donation below.
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More Accomplishments & Features
- Vans “listen to the Eyes”, fall 2018
- Runway Films 'Full Moon', fall 2016
- Transworld Snowboarding Magazines Influencer award 2016
- Transworld Snowboarding Magazine Nomination for Reader's Choice Award 2016
- 2014 ESPN's Best 50 Action Sports Athletes List
- Winner of 5 Transworld Snowboarding Magazine Awards(Winner of Influencer, Rookie & Rider of the Year & 2 Reader’s Choice)
- Nominated for 2011 Transworld Snowboarding Magazine’s Female Video Part of the Year
- Nominated for 2010 Transworld Snowboarding Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Award.
- Won Snowboarder Magazine’s Esteemed Rider of the Year 2006 and 4th best Female Rider of the year (2010)
- Active member on the rider’s alliance for Protect Our Winters, the leading advocacy group for the winter sports community in the movement against climate change.
Leanne's Athlete Picks
We asked Leanne to pick her favorite products at Alpenglow Sports! Shop Leanne's Athlete Picks to discover unique choices for splitboarding.
Support Our Free Community Events
Help us keep these free events free! Our events team is comprised of four individuals that work tirelessly to continuously improve our events and increase our nonprofit fundraising. We're not exaggerating when we say that no specialty retailer in the world does what we do - big or small, corporate or independent. And for good reason: a year-round calendar of free events is a taxing proposition for any business.
Our team pulls out all the stops to work with partner brands and organizations to fund each event, which allows them to remain free to the community. However, events such as the Winter Speaker Series have become so big and expensive that this model still stretches our finances thin.
As such, we're hoping to make an appeal to YOU, our community, to help us offset the cost of the Winter Speaker Series. Whether you have been to one show or nearly all of them, we would be ever so grateful if you would consider supporting our free community events with a small contribution.
