Sticker used on the Sims Shannon Dunn pro model snowboard
Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Sticker used on the Sims Shannon Dunn pro model snowboard. The top graphic is a yellow and black sunflower with a green stem. "Shannon Dunn [/] Sims," is printed stylistically in yellow above and below the sunflower. Dunn drew this graphic which was to be the first snowboard made with input from a woman snowboarder. Male industry leaders were skeptical that there would be a market for a femaled based board although it the most popular selling model on 1994.
- Shannon Dunn (Downing) began snowboarding in 1988 at age 16, in her hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colorado when the sport was just gaining traction on an international level. In 1985, snowboarding became more relevant as a competitive sport with the arrival of sport specific magazines and videos, the introduction of international snowboard competitions and the acceptance of snowboarding in more resorts throughout the United States. By the late 1980s, women were beginning to enter contests hoping to spark a desire in younger girls to participate. Dunn began competing a year after she started snowboarding and took first in the 1989 Halfpipe Rocky Mountain Amateur Series and second place overall. By 1990 she was competing in the pro circuit and won third in the 1990 Body Glove Snowbout. From 1991 through 1997, Dunn was a consistent first place finisher at the pro contests and won gold in halfpipe at the first ever Winter X Games in 1997. She went on to earn a spot on the inaugural Olympic snowboarding team and became the first American athlete to medal in snowboarding winning the Bronze medal in half pipe at Nagano. Dunn continued her domination of the medal stand on the pro circuit until the 2002 Salt Lake City games where she came in fifth as American Kelly Clark to gold. After the 2002 Games Dunn retired in order to concentrate on her family. Dunn co-founded “Boarding for Breast Cancer” in 1996 and continues her philanthropic work.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1994
- ID Number
- 2021.0071.07.2
- accession number
- 2021.0071
- catalog number
- 2021.0071.07.2
- maker
- Downing, Shannon
- Object Name
- sticker, snowboarding
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 4 in; 15.24 cm x 10.16 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Sports & Leisure
- name of sport
- Snowboarding
- level of sport
- Professional
- web subject
- Women
- Record ID
- nmah_2008309
