Raicca Ventura
Photos by Lauren Brooke - please make sure to credit @lauren_brooke_photography if sharing on socials
The World Championships in Sao Paulo, Brazil, were a total nail-biter. From rain delays to who moved on during the women’s park quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals, it was one to watch!
Mazel Paris
Team rider Mazel Paris was a standout during the women’s park qualifier - at just 12 years old, Mazel was leading the charge and in the number one position until almost the end of the women’s park qualifier! Such a huge achievement to make it to the quarter-finals and be in the higher scoring group of women. The talent is getting younger and younger!
Minna Stess
Team rider Minna Stess pushed hard, making it through the open qualifiers, to the semi’s, and then into the finals -and that’s not all! Minna had an epic second run and ended up landing on the podium, taking home 3rd for the USA.
Rain delays during the finals wreaked havoc on the women’s park event. After one run each and partway through the second set of runs (with only Sky and Arisa to go), the rain started (again). The girls started a game of Uno to pass the time while waiting to find out whether the event would continue.
Sky Brown
The “squeegee team” did an excellent job of drying the park quickly and Arisa and Sky were able to get their runs in. At this point, Sky was still in 1st place, and after her second run, Arisa was in 4th. But then the rain started again. The officials decided to call it and use the scores from the 2nd runs as the finals.
This meant that Sky Brown was in 1st, Mizuho Hasegawa took 2nd, and Minna Stess grabbed 3rd.
Congrats to all the women for showing up and pushing it further than last year!
Huge thanks to Lauren Brooke for sharing her amazing photos with us!
Ruby Lilley
Kihana Ohawa
Lilly Stoephasius
