People dubbed her as the Madonna of snowboarding, having to pull-off insane moxious maneuvers in the halfpipe competitions and still manage to mind her clothing of today’s latest fashion trend. Truly, Gretchen Bleiler does shine out in the halfpipe and in the media, proving to the world that the competitive edge of the female can also go for some ‘extra’ cause.
Bleiler, who learned riding the halfpipe when she was 11, was also stirred to a thirst for winning with her three brothers who also was into snowboarding. Her feminine qualities doesn’t affected her focus to learn to ride the loops and continued to play until making the cut in the snowboarding team in her hometown, Aspen, Colorado. From there, her career blossomed and competed in various snowboarding competition across the globe.
In the year of 1996, Gretchen Bleiler, became a professional snowboard athlete. She then quickly rises up from the expectations of the people, garnering sheer numbers of prominent awards from different sporting competitions as her career progresses. Amongst her favorite sporting events, Bleiler excelled in the halfpipe event, from which she practiced thoroughly at her early days.
Because of her passion to compete on and off her snowboard, she voluntarily made her way to various monthly publications such as FHM, Sports Illustrated, People, Jane Magazine, Transworld Snowboarding and Discovery Girls. Among them, FHM was the most controversial shoot, she made a daring pictorial while having her whole body covered in paint as her lingerie! She then eventually became exposed in the media world, Access Hollywood, Tonight Show with David Leno and Cold Pizza were the few to mention of national TV programs that lined up to interview her, up to close and personal.
Bleiler was also featured in different sportswear advertisements for Oakley and K2. ESPN chose her to star in different TV commercials to the upcoming annual winter X-Games in 2004; later in 2006 she was featured in different ads to promote the Olympic Games.
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