title: Action Sports Alliance
text: # Action Sports Alliance
  
  Action Sports Alliance (The Alliance) is a non-profit association of professional female skateboarders and other action sports athletes. The Alliance was founded in 2005 by Cara-Beth Burnside, Mimi Knoop, and Drew Mearns. Burnside was the first president.
  
  In 2006, the Alliance helped negotiate significant prize money increases for female vert and street skateboarders at the X Games and helped add a women's surfing event to the line-up.
  
  The business of the Alliance is run by a board of directors composed of leading professional athletes who are elected and appointed by the pro membership according to the organization bylaws.
  
  