Tina Basich

{{short description|American snowboarder}}

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Tina Basich (born June 29, 1969) is an American snowboarder, originally from Sacramento, California.{{Cite book |last=Basich |first=Tina |title=Pretty Good for a Girl: The Autobiography of a Snowboarding Pioneer |last2=Gasperini |first2=Kathleen |publisher=HarperCollins |date=30 September 2003 |isbn=9780060532208 |edition=1st |location=United States |pages=back flap cover |language=en}}{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} Basich began snowboarding in 1986, when the sport was still new. She is noted for winning a variety of competitions from the 1980s onward, and for being the first woman to successfully land a backside 720 in competition, at the 1998 Winter X Games Big Air.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} She also played a part in the design of outerwear and snowboards for women, including one of the first women's pro-models for SIMS Snowboards, alongside Shannon Dunn-Downing.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} Basich was also one of the founders of Boarding for Breast Cancer, and hosted the girl action sports TV show GKA.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

In the late 1990s, Basich dated musician Dave Grohl for a couple of years. Basich ended the relationship after discovering his infidelity.{{cite news|url=https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/dave-grohl-ex-child-affair-b2611077.html|title=Dave Grohl's ex wrote about his infidelity decades before he fathered child 'outside of marriage'|date=September 11, 2024|work=The Independent|first=Brittany |last=Miller}} In 2003, she wrote an autobiography titled Pretty Good for a Girl.{{cite book |title=Pretty Good for a Girl: The Autobiography of a Snowboarding Pioneer |first1=Tina |last1=Basich |first2=Kathleen |last2=Gasperini |publisher=Dey Street Books |date=September 20, 2003 |isbn=9780062091994}}