title: Tina Basich
text: # Tina Basich
  
  Tina Basich (born June 29, 1969) is an American snowboarder, originally from Sacramento, California.
  
  ## Career
  
  Basich began snowboarding in 1986, when the sport was still new. She is noted for winning a variety of competitions from the 1980s onward, and for helping in the design of outerwear and snowboards for women, including one of the first women's pro-models for SIMS Snowboards.
  
  ## Achievements
  
  * First woman to successfully land a backside 720 in competition (at the 1998 Winter X Games Big Air)
  * Shares the title of having first women's pro-model board with Shannon Dunn-Downing
  * Was one of the founders of Boarding for Breast Cancer
  * Broke her right fibula trying a 720 at Mammoth
  * Hosted girl action sports TV show GKA
  * Autobiography Pretty Good for a Girl details her snowboarding career
  * Opened a shop called My Favorite Things
  
  ## Competition history
  
  * 2000 G Shock Air and Style - Corner Challenge - 4th
  * 2000 Sims Invitational World Snowboard Championships - Whistler = Big Air - 2nd
  * 1999 Boarding for Breast Cancer - Big Air - 1st
  * 1998 Winter X Games - Snowboard Big Air - 1st
  * 1998 Winter X Games - Snowboard Slopestyle - 6th
  * 1997 Winter X Games Snowboard Big Air - 3rd
  * 1997 ESPN Freeride - Aspen - Big Air - 1st
  * 1997 King of the Hill - Extreme - 2nd
  * 1997 US Open - Halfpipe - 2nd
  