Oct 11th '09 : The 2009 NZsnowboard.com Riders Poll Awards
11th October 2009
The countries top riders and the snowboard industry all cast their votes to determine who would reign supreme at the 2nd Annual NZsnowboard.com Riders Poll Awards.
The concept of the NZsnowboard.com Riders Poll Awards is very simple. Give the NZ snowboard world a voice to acknowledge those who they felt have killed it, and on the closing day at Snow Park NZ that's exactly what happened.
2009 NZsnowboard.com Riders Poll Winners
Rookie Women's Rider of the Year - Stefi Luxton
Rookie Men's Rider of the Year - Jay Walsh
Women's Rider of the Year - Shelly Gotlieb
Men's Rider of the Year - Stef Zeestraten
NZsnowboard.com Director Robett Hollis gets things underway
The 4 awards await for the 2009 Winners
Jay Walsh was up against Ben Stewart and Joram Makuru
Stef 'Dutchy' Zeestraten with his mandatory winners skull
Jay Walsh all smiles after winning Rookie Men's Rider Of The Year
Stefi Luxton celebrated her 18th Birthday earlier in the week and then won the Rookie Women's Rider of the Year
Shelly Gotlieb made it 2 years in a row for the Women's Rider of the Year
Dutchy STOKED on his win
Stefi Luxton won by a landslide for the Rookie Women's top spot
Shelly Gotlieb
Shelly blew away the competition for Women's Rider of the Year
Dutchy had a huge year in 2009 winning the Winter Games Big Air and Slopestyle Competitions.
Stef 'Dutchy' Zeestraten
The Winners of the NZsnowboard.com Riders Poll Awards
NZsnowboard.com would like to say a massive thanks to all the riders, the website sponsors and the NZ snowboard industry who support NZsnowboard.com, Paulus Herewini from Datastyle, Cleay Perham from Create Noise, Lawrence Smith from Cabbage Tree for the Snow Reports, Tim Pierce for his epic video work on NZsnowboard.TV, Neil Kerr and Hamish Acland from NZskier, Jason Hancox from Basket Productions, Russell Holt at Mountain Watch, Pablo Azocar for the pics, all the site contributors and Sam Lee and the Snow Park NZ crew for helping us out once again.
And most importantly, thanks to our online snowboarding community for supporting NZsnowboard.com year after year. We would be nothing without you so thanks for everything.
Bring on 2010!
- Holler, NZsnowboard.com
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