It's Trew: Arisa revels as skateboard role model

Yahoo

27-01-2025

Arisa Trew, Australia's youngest Olympic gold medallist, reckons it's the secret to her success.
"Just overcoming fear pretty easily," Trew told AAP.
"And giving everything a try and putting in a lot of work."
The 14-year-old Queenslander is a skateboarding trailblazer who has revolutionised the sport.
At last year's Paris Olympics, she became the nation's youngest gold medallist with victory in the women's park event.
"Definitely since the Olympics, life has changed," said Trew, who turns 15 in May.
"I feel like more people kind of know me now and recognise me and want to take photos which is pretty cool, I don't mind that.
"I hope I'd be a role model here in Australia because it's super cool to see a lot of younger girls getting in to it.
"And even girls my age and older just taking up the sport and having fun with their friends and just challenging themselves to find new tricks."
Trew's father Simon has noted the influence of his daughter.
"What the girl is achieving is absolutely amazing," he told AAP.
"Arisa turned the skateboarding world upside down when she first came on the scene because her level of skating was so much higher than everybody.
"But all the young girls now just look at her skateboarding and see her as just being normal and that is what they have to do, so they're all following her really fast.
"And the other girls on the tour are stepping up and following her as well so it's really exciting.
"Everybody in the skateboarding world is so excited about what she is doing and what the other girls are doing."
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Simon said the impact of his daughter went deeper than her feats, which include being a five-time X-Games gold medallist, world and Olympic champion, and the first female skater to land the 720 and 900 aerial tricks in competition.
"Skate parks now are all full of girls," he said.
"When she started, she was the only girl so it's kind of amazing that skate parks in Australia are so full of girls.
"In the rest of the world, it's slowly changing but not like in Australia.
"Australia's skateboarding scene is booming so we will probably be dominant in skateboarding definitely up to Brisbane (2032 Olympics) - maybe even longer because everybody is so hooked on it."