Achievements

2008

CARMEL VALLEY SKATE PARK OPENING - Holly's company Sk8Grl had a booth at the Grand Opening of the new skate park. Her and her teammates Allysha Bergado and Lea Taylor also skated the demo with Bucky Lasek, Andy MacDonald, Sergie Ventura and many other rippers.

MTV MADE - Holly was asked to be a coach on an MTV MADE episode. A girl from rural Ohio wanted to be a skateboarder. The episode also featured Tony Hawk and Rob Dyrdek. http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1592724&vid=265846

SUPERGIRL JAM - Holly's company Sk8Grl made the event T-shirts for the Supergirl Jam. This marks the 3rd time Sk8Grl has worked with Warner Bros. and Supergirl. Also, the whole Sk8Grl team ripped up the Supergirl contest and best trick contest for the three day event.

USA CHARACTER ROAD TRIP - Holly was asked to be a featured Character for USA 'Character Road Trip'. She was featured during the 'National Treasure' Movie! USA Character Road Trip

MSNBC - Holly was a featured athlete on the business show for her deck sponsor. MSNBC

SK8GRL CLOTHING - Holly's company Sk8Grl now has distribution through VKskate. VK Skate

CLASH II - Tony Hawk, Bucky Lasek, PLG, Andy MacDonald and many others came out to demo to raise money for Grind for Life. Sk8Grl was a sponsor for the event and had a booth were we sold a huge amount of Sk8Grl tops! Clash II

2007

SUPERGIRL JAM - Holly's company Sk8Grl created the event t-shirts for the Supergirl Jam. S3 athletes included team pro Holly Lyons and team rider Lea Taylor!

SUPERGIRL 'ACIONISTA' LAUNCH PARTY- Holly's company Sk8Grl co-created a tank top and T-shirt design with Warner Bros. for the Supergirl Actionitast Lauch Party. Tops are sold exclusivley through Nine Star in LA.

WORLD CUP BOWL CHAMPION - #1 World Cup Bowl Skateboarding Champion. Holly was honored with an engraved plaque along with Rune Glifberg, Steve Caballero, and Benji Galloway.

LA TIMES' WEST MAGAZINE
- Holly was the Cover Girl for the GIRLS RIP issue! LA Time's West Magazine featured a four page 'Dress to Skate' story about how skate girls are softening their tough-as-nails looks. But whether you're a tomboy or a girlie-girl, it's all about being taken seriously.

GIRLS' LIFE MAGAZINE SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW - Think you’re a Cool Girl? Well this chick certainly is! We got a chance to sit down and talk with Pro Skateboarder Holly Lyons about skating, gettin’ girly and following your dreams. If you want to talk to a truly inspirational leader then read below! We’re gonna go hit the half pipe...Read the full interview here: Girls Life Magazine

GRIND FOR LIFE ART SHOW
- Holly along with some of the world's top skateboarders donated hand painted/carved/collaged/etc. decks to be auctioned off to raise money to help people with cancer.

SK8GRL CLOTHING - Holly saw the need for and decided to launch her own clothing company for girls who skate and love the lifestyle on late 2006-2007. Sk8Grl.com

2006


WORLD CUP SKATEBOARD RANKINGS
#1 in the World for Bowl Skateboarding
#2 in the World for Vert Skateboarding

KEEP-A-BREAST KINGS AND QUEENS, ART SHOW AND AUCTION- Holly was one of a handful of professional female skateboarders who were invited to be a castee for the first ever 100% Keep-A-Breast art show and auction to raise money and awareness for breast cancer. Keep-A-Breast

COOL GIRL SKATEBOARDS PRO MODEL - Holly's the first and only Pro on the team to have her own signature pro model. It is also the top selling board for the company.

POWER SKATE SIGNATURE SHOES - Second year that Holly had her own signature skateboard shoes for Power Shoe Company. They were a top seller in Canada, and were really cute shoes made for skateboarding and hangin’ out! Ads featured in multiple magazines including Transworld Business, SG Magazine, and Lemonade.  Power Skate Shoes

ASK A PRO - From 2005- 2008, Holly answered questions that girls wrote in from around the world about skateboarding for the Cool Girl Skateboards website.

MAGAZINE COVERAGE - Many action photos, ads, and interviews in SG, Concrete Wave, Skratch, Girls' Life.com, and other magazines, websites, and zines.


2005

POWER SKATE SIGNATURE SHOES - Holly is the only girl on the team with her own signature skateboard shoes for Power Shoe Company. They're super comfortable, durable, and really cute shoes made for skateboarding and hangin’ out! Ads featured in multiple magazines including Transworld Business, SG Magazine, and Lemonade.  Power Skate Shoes

ASK A PRO - Holly answered questions that girls and even boys write in from around the world asking about skateboarding for Cool Girl Skateboards web site.

MAGAZINE COVERAGE - Many action photos, ads, and write-ups in Transworld Business, Transworld Snowboarding, SG, Heckler, Plow, Wahine, and many other Magazines and zines.

“HANNAH MONTANA” Disney TV show - Holly was a skateboard stunt double for Lily, the best friend of the main character Hannah Montana. Photo

“THE CAGE” TV show - Pro Athlete Co-Host.  This was a reality based pilot TV show for kids, where two teams of three go against each other to customize and modify a Razor Scooter to hold a surfboard and a ten lb. bag of gear.  The theme was surfing safari, and Holly made the final decision about which team won. Group Photo

2004

“2BX” Reality TV show - Holly was chosen to be 1 out of 10 snowboarders to participate in a Snowboard Culture Reality TV show.  Lived with Anne Molin Kossgard, Chanelle Sladics, Jacquie Berg, Kumara Kelly, Rob Kingwell, J2, Nate Bozung, and more. Filmed in Park City, UT.

“THAT’S SO RAVEN” Disney TV show - Holly was a skateboard stunt double for the hit Disney TV show.  Doubled for Raven Simone as 'Extreme Raven' and Brittney as ‘Scabz’. Photos

SG MAGAZINE - Photo from X Games X. Holly also had a Private Lesson article with photos and text.  Wrote articles for website. SG Magazine

“GKA” on FUEL TV - Holly worked with Pro snowboarder Tina Basich doing commentary and host tosses on the show GKA for Fuel TV.  Holly also has skateboarding and snowboarding footage on different episodes at various locations.

“VILLA VILLA COLA” Skateboard video - Skateboard segment in the all female skateboard video.

X GAMES X program by OP - Full page action photo and write up in the X Games guidebook.

“DISHDOGZ” the movie - Skateboard stunt double for Haylie Duff in the feature film. Photo

COMMENTATOR - Inspirational speaker at Moto X demos at various schools in Northern California alongside Pro BMX’er Willie D.

ROXY DEMO TOUR - Spent two weeks traveling through Canada doing demos and autograph signing for Roxy clothing.  Holly had an action photo on the cover of the Kalowna Newspaper after the first demo. 

2003

ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR- Holly worked at Point X Action Sports Camp for Skateboard, BMX and Motocross.

THE GAME” demo - Skated in a vert demo with Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Lincoln Ueda, Seggie Ventura, Matt Hoffman, Rick Thorne, Kevin Richardson and Kevin Stabb.

2002

GOOD CHARLOTTE music video “THE ANTHEM” - Only female skater invited to skate the Basic Bowl in Huntington Beach for the music video. MTV was on location at the same time creating “Making of the Video” for the song.

“SHAQTACULAR” demo - Skated the Red Bull vert ramp for a Shaquille O’Neil fundraiser for inner city LA kids.  Skated with Rune Glifberg, Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Jake Brown, Mathias Ringstrom, Chad Vogt, Brian Patch, Cara-Beth Burnside, and Mimi Knoop. 

VANS SKATEBOARD CAMP- Skateboard coach for the Vans Skateboard Camp at High Cascade Snowboard/Skateboard Camp in Mt. Hood, Oregon. 

2001

“HARDLY ANGELS” the movie - Featured Skateboard Segment in an all female movie about Professional Snowboarders and Skateboarders.

VANS WARPED TOUR - Skated in vert demo’s on the Warped Tour with other pro skateboarders and BMXer’s. 

2000

“OUR TURN” the movie - Holly had a featured Snowboard and Skateboard Segment in an all female movie about Professional Snowboarders, Skateboarders, and Surfers.

PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR for amateur skateboard contests
1.  Truckee Grand Opening Skateboard Contest, Truckee, CA.
2.  Northstar @ Tahoe Vert and Mini-ramp Contest, Northstar, CA.
3.  Truckee Fundraising Skateboard Contest, Truckee, CA. 

  • Worked with various parks and rec. departments, local shops, and skate companies to sponsor events
  • Created proposal and flyers to solicit sponsorship, and to advertise the contests
  • Managed all operations from organizing, staffing, and running the events
  • MC, prize distributor, and created a video of fundraiser event