SUP Athletes To Watch


JENNY MACARTHUR Aspen, Colorado Married to elite racer Charlie MacArthur, Jenny rose to the top when she trumped the women's division of the SUP Surf Sprint in 2010 carrying the MacArthur torch with pride. She has also tasted victory at the Whitewater Championships in Gleenwood Springs. A native of Australia, Jenny calls Colorado and the world class slopes of Aspen home today. A National level skier and a natural competitor, she embodies all that SUP has evolved to represent to the women of the world: a mother, a wife, a friend and a competitor all rolled into one. JENNY MACARTHUR'S SUMMER MOUNTAIN GAMES SCORE SHEET: 4th Place - 2011 SUP Surf Sprint 1st Place - 2010 SUP Surf Sprint		KEN HOEVE Every year I do the same thing. Start to run and train a few weeks out in hopes it will help. Give up the suds and ....... anything else that slows me down in hopes it will give me that extra bit to podium. Truth be told it hasn't worked and I havent been in the top three since Slade Cogswell and I won the Dash for Cash when the Games were still the Jeep Whitewater Championships over 14 years ago. So this year, I decided to give it a real go. Now in my 40s I have introduced three of the Games most popular events. The Homestake Creek race, SUP race and the infamous 8 Ball. I have competed in all, but have never made the podium. Top 20 in the creek race and top 10 in SUP at one time or another but always the bridesmaid. Last year it was so bad I even got pummeled in the 8 Ball for the first time and swam. You probably caught that on the highlight reel. So I decided this year, its on. Instead of starting 30 days out and going a couple times a week, I started 6 months ahead of time and am after it 5 days a week, two hours a day. Crossfit, running, river sprints, dry land paddle practice, swimming and eating way better. I have been paddling class III on my board since January 1st at least twice a week. The beer? Yeah..... that one is kind of tough since I am involved in Bonfire Brewing in Eagle. And we make good beer! So that one is still an issue. But other than that I want to move up the ranks. And I also want to compete in as many events as possible. SUP, kayak races, mud run are at least three I want to knock off. Regardless of the outcome, I also have a few athletes I want to beat this year. Even more motivation. 2013 Mountain Games are going to be awesome as they always are. I think I will be way more prepared this Go round'. We'll see in less than two months.

ALEX MAUER I have been training hard for the SUP events this year. I wake up everyday and hit a paddle simulator I invented to train with to start out my day. Then I will head out for some water time. When I was out in Cali I sat down with my sponsor Rogue SUPs shaper and designed a race board specifically for this event! I have been hitting the gym 3 times a week with crossfit exercises, yoga, mountain bike riding, swimming pretty much anything to keep my body on the edge to win this event!		TODD BRADLEY Proficient at virtually every surf sport in a boat or on a board, C4 Waterman co-founder Todd Bradley continues to amass an impressive list of national and international paddling and surfing titles and a reputation for endurance and skill as demonstrated by having crossed the daunting 32-mile Kaiwi Channel during Molokai-Oahu races in more than 50 races and three different types of craft: standup paddleboards, OC-1 kayaks and OC-6 outrigger canoes. TODD BRADLEY'S SUMMER MOUNTAIN GAMES SCORE SHEET: 10th Place - 2010 SUP Surf Sprint

BRIAN KEAULANA A highly decorated and revered watermen, C4 Waterman co-founder Brian Keaulana has more than 500 awards in surfing, canoe surfing, body boarding, body surfing, and sailing. A pioneer in ocean survival techniques, Brian invented and designed the rescue sleds now commonly found behind jet rescue crafts. A popular stuntman and stunt coordinator, Brian has appeared worked in dozens of film, documentary and TV productions. BRIAN KEAULANA'S SUMMER MOUNTAIN GAMES SCORE SHEET: 17th Place - 2010 SUP Surf Sprint

SKIP BROWN Cabin John, MD Even though I kite board and surf I'm a longtime kayaker and I learned to SUP on rivers in whitewater. Just upriver from my home on the Potomac near Washington DC we have flat water, Class V rapids and everything in between. So it's a good playground and workout venue. We run rapids and do attainments, paddling upstream against the current for a serious workout. But my favorite (and most fun) training regimen is surfing one of our great standing waves that are almost always running. It may not look like I'm "training" but surfing a wave for five to ten minutes per surf is a leg burner that helps keep me in shape for ocean wave surfing or racing. And it's WAY fun. I'm looking forward to Vail.		JEN KOKI Though this will be pro longboarder turned stand up paddler Jen Koki's first river SUP surf trip, she is no stranger to competition. Born and raised in Waikiki, Koki's father taught her to surf when she was just two. She started competing when she was 8 and has amassed numerous top-place finishes in such events as the Girls Who Surf, Roxy Pro, Duke's OceanFest. She won last year's prestigious China Eumara Longboard Surfing Classic. JEN KOKI'S SUMMER MOUNTAIN GAMES SCORE SHEET: 7th Place - 2011 SUP Surf Sprint 3rd Place - 2010 SUP Surf Sprint

CHARLIE MACARTHUR Charlie MacArthur is C4 Waterman's whitewater ambassador. A familiar face on the slopes of Aspen in the winter, Charlie enjoys off-season getaways to surf and SUP in Hawaii then switches to kayaking and stand up paddling in the summer as the owner and lead instructor at Aspen Kayak Academy. Charlie conspired with Dave Parmenter to develop C4's CMac ATB (all-terrain board) and its inflatable successor the iSUP, the first surf boards designed exclusively for whitewater stand up paddling. CHARLIE MACARTHUR'S SUMMER MOUNTAIN GAMES SCORE SHEET: 4th Place - 2011 SUP Surf Cross 2nd Place - 2011 - SUP Surf Sprint 6th Place - 2010 SUP Surf Sprint

		STEVEN NYMAN Olympian, U.S. Ski Team member and World Cup Veteran Steven Nyman will be making his Summer Mountain Games debut in Stand Up Paddling. An accomplished kite-boarder, ripping skier, and all around athlete, Nyman was born and bred in Utah and was skiing at age 2. He was a discretionary pick to the 2002 Junior Worlds squad; two medals launched his U.S.Ski Team career and his first World Cup win in 2007 showed how much he's progressed. Today Nyman travels the word competing on the World Cup circuit and is regarded as one of America's best competitive downhill ski racers. STEVEN NYMAN'S SUMMER MOUNTIAN GAMES SCORE SHEET: 17th Place - 2011 SUP Surf Sprint 11th Place - 2010 SUP Surf Sprint

NIKKI GREGG Nikki Gregg, a fitness professional and stand up paddle fitness guru who now resides on the north shore of Oahu, claims to be a mountain girl at heart and is looking forward to coming back to Colorado where she lived and played for many years. An all around athlete in the sport of stand up paddling, Nikki is excited to see other women begin to join in on the fun of whitewater SUP. NIKKI GREGG'S SUMMER MOUNTAIN GAMES SCORE SHEET: 2nd Place - 2011 SUP Surf Cross 8th Place - 2011 SUP Surf Sprint 4th Place - 2010 SUP Surf Sprint

		DAN GAVERE Hailing from Hood River, OR, Dan Gavere is the Summer Mountian Game's whitewater specialist and has been paddling SUP for 5 years. Other achievements include: Releasing the instructional DVD called the "Ultimate Guide to Stand Up Paddling," 2009 Whitewater SUP National Champion, & top finisher in open ocean and short course SUP racing. DAN GAVERE'S SUMMER MOUNTAIN GAMES SCORE SHEET: 1st Place - 2011 SUP Surf Sprint 2nd Place - 2010 SUP Surf Sprint

NICOLE DUKE Former pro downhill mountain biker Nicole Duke began competing in SUP events in 2010. In her inaugural SUP season, Nicole was a top finisher in every downriver event she entered. She became the first woman to run the historic 26-mile FIBArk Downriver Race on a Stand-up board. Other hightlights include a 2nd place finish in the SUP Sprint at the Summer Mountain Games and a 2nd place the Whitewater SUP National Championship. This year, Nicole plans to compete in several regional and national SUP events. Her goals include winning the 2011 Downriver National Championship, winning the SUP Sprint and Surf Cross at the 2011 Summer Mountain Games, and continuing to promote SUP by instructing and teaching. When she's not on the water, she can be found racing Cyclocross on the national circuit, playing with her 2 kids, or running her hairdressing business in Boulder, CO. NICOLE DUKE'S SUMMER MOUNTIAN GAMES SCORE SHEET: 4th Place - 2011 SUP Surf Cross 5th Place - 2011 SUP Surf Sprint 2nd Place - 2010 SUP Surf Sprint

		NOA GINELLA In June 2010, unheralded 16-year-old Hawaii native Noa Ginella arrived in Vail for the Summer Mountain Games as a complete dark-horse. Cruising in the shadow of a handful of highly acclaimed Hawaiian watermen, who doubled as his mentors, Ginella was completely under the radar. No-one expected he would surge to a win in the inaugural C4 Waterman Standup paddle Sprint race of the Games that was held in high flow warning conditions, or that he'd do it on an inflatable race board. This year, they know better. Raised on Oahu's legendary North Shore - an area long-regarded a breeding ground for heroic heavy water riders of the saltwater kind, Noa was banking on his ocean experience making short work of the inland whitewater learning curve. He wasn't daunted by the fact he had never been so far inland, never performed at elevation, or even launched himself into frigid high flow waters before. Ginella returns to the Mountain Games this spring a year older and with a slew of prestigious prestigious ocean results to his credit: Winning at Duke's Oceanfest, Molokai-to-Oahu World Paddle board Championships, and the Kahala Challenge ocean triathlon. At the Rainbow Sandals Battle of the Paddle he placed 8th. The inaugural course record set by Ginella last year was 18:15.53, a time that may be tough to beat considering Gore Creek was flowing at a daunting 1200 cfs on the day. An even wilder flow on day two saw the SUP Cross event canceled. That title is back on the line in 2011. NOA GINELLA'S SUMMER MOUNTAIN GAMES SCORE SHEET: 1st Place - 2011 SUP Surf Cross 3rd Place - 2011 SUP Surf Sprint 1st Place - 2010 SUP Surf Sprint

JENNY KALMBACH Jenny was born and raised in Costa Rica and moved to Kona, Hawaii in 2005 after graduating from the University of British Columbia. In 2008, she won the inaugural Battle of the Paddle, emerging as a complete unknown to take the win. In 2009, Jenny won the prestigious 32-mile Molokai to Oahu race, prompting Standup Paddle Magazine to name her one of the world's elite paddlers. Additionally Kalmbach was also Stand Up Paddle Magzine's SUP Of The Year. Paddling now for five years, she has established herself as one of the sport's most high profile and recognizable racers.

		LEL TONE Lel started skiing as a child in the Alps, then left Switzerland for the U.S. when she was 10. She began ski-racing while in college in Vermont, and later moved to Lake Tahoe. Lel has competed in freeskiing competitions, professional mountain-bike races, and as an elite-level paddleboarder. During the winter, she works as an avalanche forecaster for Squaw Valley Ski Patrol and as a lead guide in Alaska with Chugach Powder Guides. Lel holds Level 1-3 avalanche certifications and is a licensed blaster in California. She is also an instructor with the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE) and the National Ski Patrol, and a certified EMT.