Shawna Hoffman

Name: Shawna Hoffman

Birthday: 12/16/91

Seasons Competing: 5

Cable or Boat or Both? boat

Sponsor shout out: Epic boats, CWB, Bern helmets, Flojos shoes, Arnette, Proline ropes, BoardBunnies clothing, monster energy

Hometown: Chico, CA

Current residence: Chico, CA

Board set up: CWB Sapphire with Tiffnay Bindings

Where is your riding crew based out of? Butte Valley

What is your favourite thing about wakeboarding? having fun in the sun and meeting new people!

Where is your absolute favourite place to ride? I can’t say the name of the lake, but I love riding in high lakes in the coniferous forests of the sierra mountains in California

Places you have traveled to for wakeboarding: GA, LA, FL, TX, OK, WI, OH, AZ,OR, NV

Favourite Rider: Adam Fields and Melissa Marquardt

Favourite Animal: white Tiger

Favourite Trick: huge stalefish glides

Favourite Music: can’t decide; either rock alt. or country

What are some of your best results? 2 time world champion Junior Women’s in ‘07, 2nd place Women’s Pro Board up Miami, 2nd place Women’s Pro Int Championships ‘06 and ‘07

What are some of your thoughts on female wakeboarding at the pro level? I’m really amazed at how well we’ve come along in the progression of rails to the tricks that we can throw down behind the boat. Girls are throwing huge tricks such as ts off 7’s, s-bends, varieties of mobes and raleys. Girls are really pushing the sport of wakeboarding. I don’t think we will ever catch up to the men’s level of progression, but if it weren’t for them, we never would have gotten the courage and strength to keep pushing ourselves to these new levels in wakeboarding.

What do we need to do to help the progression of women’s wakeboarding? Invite more girls out to the lake and teach them how to ride, bring them to contests and see how they like them. Introduce them to the sport. 

Props to anyone? God’s grace. My parents, if they hadn’t worked so hard all of their lives, to bring my sister and i into wakeboarding, we never would have come this far. Thankyou Mike irete for introducing wakeboarding to our family. Thankyou Kyle Utterback for showing us the ropes to wakeboarding and Thankyou Justin Nix for hooking us up with CWB and helping raequel and I shine through wakeboarding!