Cheryl Maas grew up in a town called Uden in the Netherlands, a country without mountains. She started snowboarding at the age of eleven on the nearly located dryslopes and spent pretty much all her spare time riding there with her brother. Her first (dryslope) contest came when she was 14 and from then on Cheryl looked forward to the day she could move to the mountains to snowboard full time.

That day came, and the 17-year-old Cheryl decided to settle down in Mayrhofen, Austria. She started to shred the infamous Vans Penken Park and her riding skills got quickly noticed. From the beginning of her career Cheryl Maas has let her riding speak for itself and long story short: Cheryl Maas is a legend. She’s the first woman to become a TTR Champion, she filmed memorable movie parts, she’s been on the podiums of many of the biggest snowboarding contest of the world and she even had her own series of webisodes.

Cheryl is also the first woman who was able to land a 900 in a Slopestyle competition (at the Winter X Europe in 2011) and she was named Snowboarder Magazine’s Female Rider of the Year in 2011. Her uncompromising approach to snowboarding and life in general as well as her dominant style in the park, backcountry and street have earned her massive respect of fans, peers and the industry. At 29 years of age she managed to qualify for the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi.

As we said, Cheryl is a legend.