Sabrina Bryan wants your workout video!
Think you’ve got the latest and greatest moves to get fit? Show them off in a new contest to promote physical activity!
Sabrina Bryan, of the Cheetah Girls and Dancing with the Stars ” has teamed up with The Alliance for a Healthier Generation to launch empowerME, a campaign challenging kids to make their own workout videos.
How to enter:
For more information on The Alliance for a Healthier Generation, the empowerME campaign and Sabrina Bryan’s video contest please visit www.empowerME2B.org.
So get up, grab a camera and get moving!
The top five finalists will receive autographed copies of Sabrina’s newest “Byou” DVD — and the winner will also receive a personalized video message from Sabrina!
Calling all models: Nikita Photo Contest #3
March 25, 2009 by jane
Filed under Contest, Pretty Chic, Snowboard
The third time’s a charm so they say. This is the third opportunity of its kind from Nikita who are offering a couple of lucky ladies the chance to shine among their team riders in the Spring/Summer 2010 photoshoot that will take place in Miami this spring. Two girls will be picked to join the Nikita team for the photoshoot, earning a spot in all the Spring/Summer 2010 catalogs, website and perhaps some full page ads in international magazines! Will one of them be …you?!
All you have to do to take part is send in some pictures of yourself as the new Nikita girl. Photos can be as entertaining, wild and creative as you want to make them but most importantly, they want to see what you look like and hear in your own words what you enjoy doing. At the very least they need one full body shot, one portrait shot (of the face!) and details of how tall you are.
Make sure to get your entries in before April 15, 2009 as the photoshoot will be taking place soon after from May 4 – 12, 2009. If you plan on entering be sure that you are available to travel on those dates.
ENTRY DETAILS:
• Include your name, address, date of birth and contact details
• You can send in as many pictures as you want but total file size of all the pictures must not exceed 2 MB
• E-mail your entries to internis@nikitaclothing.com before April 15, 2009
• Entrants must be able to travel to the photoshoot location from May 4 – 12, 2009
* Please note that entrants must be 18 years old or over and have a valid passport if traveling from beyond the USA. Your entries may also be showcased via Nikita’s website, Myspace and Facebook.
www.nikitaclothing.com
Girls Only: Nikita Snowboard Clip Contest
Girls, girls, girls…..The Nikita Snowboard Clip Contest is well under way so get in on the action. There’s still time to make the most of the winter and the snowy future forecasts by getting some new footage together and sending it to Nikita.
Send in clips of your snowboard action before March 30, 2009 and the most popular rated clips will be put into a final entry to be judged by the Nikita crew. The winner will win a trip to Iceland in the spring and be kitted out in a full Nikita Outerwear setup!
Last year the super talented Kasia Kwiecien from Poland was selected from hundreds of girls who entered all over the world and had an amazing time hanging out in Iceland, snorkelling in some icy waters, caving and of course snowboarding. You can watch a video of the trip at http://www.youtube.com/nikitaclothing and http://www.vimeo.com/1322040 – Just click on the Nikita Iceland Roadtrip 2008.
This time around there’s some more opportunities to grab Nikita prizes….including a Nikita Outerwear outfit to two deserving runners up and Streetwear gear to the lady that has the most fun, creative and stylish clip.
To enter all you have to do is:
- Be a chick!
- Be 18 years of age or over
- Enter snowboard clips ONLY please – as long as there is some sort of snowboard action, the Nikita panel of judges will accept it
- Maximum of 3 clips per person
- Clips can be as long or short as you want as long as they don’t exceed the size limit
- Maximum size limit of clips is 5 MB
- Accept that all entries sent in will be put on Nikita’s YouTube contest site and Vimeo channel
- Send in your entries to internis@nikitaclothing.com before March 30, 2009
Please include your full name, date of birth, postal address, e-mail and contact telephone number along with any other info you feel is relevant.
Cooking with Carolina Kluft
February 17, 2009 by anngaff
Filed under Olympics, Pretty Sporty, Track & Field
FloTrack has a fun video with 2004 Olympic Heptathlon Gold Medalist Carolina Kluft cooking Swedish meatballs ad mashed potatoes at her house in Kariskona, Sweden, for their “Off Track Tuesday” feature. Kluft did not lose a heptathlon between 2002 and 2007 which includes her gold medal performance at Athens in 2004. She has since moved away from the heptathlon, competing in the long jump and triple jump at the Beijing Olympics.
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Barringer Sets Indoor 5000m NCAA Record
February 15, 2009 by anngaff
Filed under Beijing Summer Games 2008, General, Olympics, Pretty Sporty, Steeplechase, Track & Field
“I think I’m gonna cry! I’ve been training so hard and my team has been so supportive. I wanna dedicate this on Valentine’s Day, my love to my team…for putting up with me!”
Jenny Barringer was beside herself after set her second NCAA record Saturday evening at the Husky Invite on the 300m University of Washington indoor track. Her time of 15:01.70 for 5000m not only demolished the old NCAA record of 15:14.18 held by Kim Smith of Providence but also would have been an American Record before last week, when Shalane Flanagan lowered that mark from 15:07.33 to 14:47.52 at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games. Steeplechic Olympian Barringer also holds the NCAA record in the 3000m Steeplechase, in 9:29.20.
“We had discussed going 15:20 and hopefully being able to kick hard to 15:14 to challenge the collegiate record,” Barringer explained. “It was fun and exciting to do and took me overruling some of the splits. It was for the best since I was able to hang on and run a good time. This was a mark we would have had our eyes on in a few years and to get it now says a lot about the decision to sit out and redshirt the cross country season. I really needed some time to put in some miles and we’re seeing the pay off now.”
Barringer red-shirted this fall’s cross-country season after returning home from Beijing, where she had made the final and placed 9th in the 3000m Steeplechase, setting a new American Record in the event in 9:22.26. It had been a long season and a long year, starting with the NCAA cross-country season in the fall of 2007, continuing with indoor and outdoor NCAA track seasons in the winter and spring, and finishing with the summer, which included the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, a race or two in Europe and finally, the Olympic Games.
Barringer is an impressive athlete for many reasons, but one that stands out is her strength. Few athletes could complete the year she had with a PR performance at the final competition. This is a testament to excellent coaching and support, a resilient body and a mature person. Stepping back from competition this fall was a well-deserved break, but it is quite obvious she did not spend it sitting on her laurels and basking in the great success she has achieved before even graduating from college. She is back on the track and more ready than ever to continue her steady improvement towards the top, where we will soon see her challenge the very best in the world.
Watch Barringer’s Interview Post-Race at UW:
