Lindsea Lumpkin is a 14 year old, 9th 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 Fuel Clothing, Salomon Snowboards, Smith Optics, Drop Gloves, SkiNC, Chicadoo Hats, F1 Ceramics, and Given Skateboards.

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 an honor roll student who finished 8th grade at Summit Middle School and is now attending Colorado Virtual Academy in 9th grade. She wants to be a pro snowboarder and skateboarder, yet 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 loves justin beiber, skating and mountain biking in the off season.

Keep your eyes open for Lindsea at the events mentioned for the upcoming 2011-2012 season and into the future.

Lindsea has had 32 chances to medal at national championships since she began competing in 2005 and has medaled 19 of those times, receiving 6 national titles. She's now riding with the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and will be coached by Ashley Berger in halfpipe, Luke Kessler in slopestyle, and Jon Casson in boardercross. A special thanks to Jim Smith, ISTC groms coach, who won USSA Domestic Coach of the Year 2010/2011 season. It was the 3rd straight season she was invited to train with the US Snowboarding Development team coaches and athletes in Project Gold Camps at Mammoth, Ca. Mt. Hood, and/or the US Training Facilities in Park City, UT. She also 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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