Marie-France Roy Dominates the 9th Annual Transworld SNOWboarding Riders' Poll Awards
Feb 02 2008 / Las Vegas, NV
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Roy, from the Rome SDS Team, was honored with Rider of the Year, Reader's Choice and with the Video Part of the Year (for "Any Means") and each time she took to the stage to accept her award she was mobbed by Rome riders and friends.
"I know I had fun this year," Roy said while accepting her second award for Reader's Choice, "but I never thought the readers would give a f**k."
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Roy's vocal cheering section may have been the highlight of the night, but 19-year-old Smith received a big response for his two wins, including Rookie of the Year and Video Part of the Year (for "We're People Too"). Wolle Nyvelt was honored as Men's Rider of the Year and legend Terje Haakonsen took home Standout of the Year thanks to his record-breaking air achieved last year at The Oakley Arctic Challenge.
Haakonsen didn't attend but did accept his award via a captured video on his laptop and said, "I really appreciate getting this award... it's probably the last one I'll get."
Kevin Pearce, Men's Reader's Choice winner, also missed the event thanks to attending the Inaugural Quiksilver Natural Selection contest in Jackson Hole, Wyoming (editor's note: looks like Pearce was in Austria for the Air & Style, which makes more sense. But we could have sworn they said Jackson Hole) . His acceptance message included a dousing by Mason Aguirre.
Spencer O'Brien was the only other rider to win an award on the night -- the first one given out. She took home Women's Rookie of the Year honors.
Presenters included past winners like Marc Frank Montoya, Hana Beaman, Leanne Pelosi. Erin Comstock, Heikki Sorsa, Danny Kass and Andreas Wiig also presented while The Dingo hosted the event. Dingo did his best to lighten up the crown with humor and did get some laughs when he mentioned Shaun White leaving Volcom at the opening of the show. The move, he said, allowed Volcom to have enough money to buy Electric Eyewear. White, a two-time winner last year, was not in attendance (nor nominated) this year.
Winners of the Transworld SNOWboarding Riders' Poll Awards are chosen by the pros themselves, with the exception of the Reader's Choice wards, which are picked by readers of the magazine.
Here's a full list of this year's nominees and winners:
Men's Rookie Of The Year
- Torstein Horgmo
- Kevin Pearce
- Austin Smith - Winner
Women's Rookie Of The Year
- Kimmy Fasani
- Desiree Melancon
- Spencer O'Brien - Winner
Men's Rider Of The Year
- Nicolas Müller
- Wolle Nyvelt - Winner
- Andreas Wiig
Women's Rider Of The Year
- Hana Beaman
- Torah Bright
- Marie-France Roy - Winner
Women's Video Part Of The Year
- Annie Boulanger - Absinthe/Optimistic?
- Marie-France Roy - Rome/Any Means - Winner
- Cheryl Maas - Yeahh/Purple Yeahh
Men's Video Part Of The Year
- John Jackson - Standard/Catch The Vapors
- Wolle Nyvelt - Absinthe/Optimistic?
- Austin Smith - MDP/We're People Too - Winner
Standout Of The Year
- Terje Haakonsen's Record Breaking Air - Winner
- Torstein Horgmo, Eddie Wall, Jonas Carlson, and Ken Block, DC Snow Park Session
- Andreas Wiig X-Games Gold
Readers' Choice: Men
- Kevin Pearce - Winner
- Joey Sexton
- Andreas Wiig
Readers' Choice: Women
- Jamie Anderson
- Leanne Pelosi
- Marie-France Roy - Winner
- Greg Baerg
