Monster Energy's Arisa Trew Takes First Place in Women's Skateboard Vert and Best Trick at Tony Hawk's Vert Alert 2025 in Salt Lake City

• 15-Year-Old Arisa Trew from Palm Beach, Australia, Wins Iconic Competition Third Consecutive Time
• 14-Year-Old Monster Army Rider Egoitz Bijueska from Spain Takes 3^rd Place in Men's Competition
  

SALT LAKE CITY, July 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Arisa does it again! Monster Energy congratulates team rider Arisa Trew on claiming first place in Women's Skateboard Vert at Tony Hawk's Vert Alert for the third consecutive time. In the annual halfpipe skateboarding contest hosted by skateboard icon Tony Hawk inside Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, the 15-year-old from Palm Beach, Australia, also secured the victory in the Women's Skateboard Vert Best Trick event.

In the Men's Skateboard Vert final, 14-year-old Monster Army team rider Egoitz Bijueska from Bilbao, Spain, claimed third place in an elite field of competitors.

From July 18-19, Tony Hawk's Vert Alert brought the world's best vertical skateboarders to Jon M. Huntsman Center at the University of Utah. Now in its fifth year, the grassroots event presented by the Utah Sports Commission featured competitions in Skateboard Vert and Best Trick. On Friday night, the crowd enjoyed a Skateboard Legends demo featuring trailblazers of the sport such as Christian Hosoi, Andy Macdonald, and event host Tony Hawk.

In the Women's Skateboard Vert event on Saturday, eight finalists competed in a 25-minute jam session judged on best overall impression. Monster Energy's Trew dropped in as the top qualifier from Friday's semifinals, as well as the two-time defending champion in Skateboard Vert. Could the Australian skateboard phenomenon earn a threepeat victory?

Heading into the final fully focused, Trew worked the large vertical ramp with a deep bag of tricks. In one of several perfect runs of the final, Trew strung together backside method air, alley-oop McTwist, body varial 540 melon, frontside bigspin varial over the channel, backside 540 melon, backside judo air, Madonna, kickflip Indy, frontside nosebone, Indy 360, switch McTwist, air to fakie, frontside Caballerial stalefish, frontside crooked fakie, and switch frontside rock.

Trew also landed technical standouts, such as frontside rodeo 540, kickflip Indy fakie, and frontside Caballerial lien to tail, to raise the bar. When all was said and done, the judges named Trew the winner of the 2025 edition of Tony Hawk's Vert Alert and $10,000 in prize money.

"It's really good, and I'm happy with how I skated today. It's just super cool being up here with a bunch of really good girls," said Monster Energy's Trew upon winning Tony Hawk's Vert Alert for the third consecutive time.

Following her victory, Trew also dominated the Women's Best Trick event, which she already won at Tony Hawk's Vert Alert 2024. The trick that scored the win is a signature move: A perfectly executed switch McTwist, a trick pioneered by Tony Hawk and mastered by Trew as the only woman on the circuit, earned her the repeat victory and $1,000 in prize money.

Recognized as a pacesetter of the progression in women's vertical skateboarding, Trew has made history as the first female athlete to land tricks including the 900-degree aerial. Trew now owns nine X Games medals, including a record-setting eight gold medals, as well as the gold medal from the 2024 Paris Olympics. 

In the heated Men's Skateboard Vert final, 14-year-old Monster Army rider Bijueska from Spain held his own amidst heavy competition. When the 25-minute jam session concluded, judges awarded the young upstart third place and $4,000 in prize money.

Standout tricks for Bijueska included huge alley-oop Japan, McTwist melon, alley-oop heelflip Indy, kickflip Indy, McTwist, frontside nosegrind the channel, kickflip body varial Indy, 540 Indy, backside lipslide, Indy 360, and fakie 540 Weddle. Further highlights such as a 540 Indy over the channel, a kickflip varial Indy, and a stalefish McTwist, earned Bijueska a podium finish in his first-ever Tony Hawk's Vert Alert.

In the Men's Best Trick event, Bijueska also stoked the crowd in Salt Lake City with a technical backside tailslide shove-it over the vert ramp's wide channel. Now that's how you debut at Tony Hawk's iconic contest!

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