Lesley McKenna is Scotland's best known snowboarder. British Champion and Britain's most successful Snowboard World Cup competitor ever. Lesley has been competing on the Snowboard World Cup Tour since 1998 and has notched up many top 5 results, including 6 podiums and 2 wins in women's half pipe. Lesley also rides slopestyle competitions and loves to free ride in her spare time.
Her high-energy approach to life makes her a well-known face in the world of snowboarding and helps fuel her pioneering spirit. She is currently aiming for the Turin Olympics in February 2006 and will also ride the World Cup tour in the coming season. Having been the only British snowboarder selected for the Salt Lake City Olympics, she is looking forward to another Olympic experience and hopes to ride hard, go big and get noticed. While not training or competing Lesley films with ChunkyKnit Productions, which she helped to set up. She has sections in their first movie, DropStitch and the current movie Transfer. Through these movies Lesley hopes to inspire as many other girls and women as possible to give snowboarding a try because "it is the most amazing sport in the world, is done in some of the most beautiful places and by some of the nicest people I have ever met."
