Rick Alden, CEO and Founder of Skullcandy, was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the state of Utah on Friday evening in the Retail and Consumer Products division. Alden is acknowledged for his outstanding leadership and growth of Skullcandy, Inc., a leading developer of core audio products.

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards recognize the men and women who excel at growing and sustaining market-leading businesses. As CEO and Founder of Skullcandy, Alden has been responsible for developing a company that produces consistent innovations, high-performance products and experiences triple digit annual company growth.

Stay tuned for an “official” Press Release on the award!

Skullcandy was represented at a recent race in Monza by SBK heavyweight, Josh Brookes! Check the video link and listen to what the announcer has to say about his new headphones! The umbrella girls are always holding it down at SBK.

http://infrontsp.rd.llnwd.net/a1386/o16/Superbike/Monza/20080511_MONZA_SSP_RACE_FR.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf

Melissa Marquadt has been getting after it on her wake stick…snagging a solid second place at the TIGE Pro-Am and also at the last stop of the PRO WAKE TOUR. Go girl!

We survived the hood in Baltimore and Skullcandy was well represented with a slew of athletes competing at this tour stop and a solid group of them making finals in FMX, BMX and Skate. FMX was on primetime NBC and Skullcandy had 3 riders representing in the finals…Mike Mason, Jeremy Lusk and Adam Jones. Fuzzy Hall and his crew held it down on the BMX side of things and also once again built one of the best best dirt courses to date. Josh Hult also made his first finals in BMX dirt and Kevin Kirally did his thing in the park. We did some heavy guerilla marketing and left having another headphone brand not too hyped! Thanks to our friends at OGIO for the hospitality and the use of the infamous Bus and too all the riders and people representing.

Peep some of the pics.

Get ready to rock! another car is on offer!

rail-jam

Skullcandy and Annalise Braakensiek (www.annalise.com.au) teamed up for the Hoops DJ event at Club77 in Sydney last week, and by all reports Annalise got plenty of attention!! must of been the Ti’s she was using!!

Make sure and check out the video interview of MX Skullcandy Family member Gavin Grayck on motocross.com

It’s a great interview and Gavin is one of the best people around.

http://www.motocross.com/articles/article/news/20080603/gavin_gracyk_interview-13050.html

A little behind the scenes with Stevie from his recent trip to the Skullcandy office…

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Peep the whole story here…

http://expn.go.com/expn/blog/snowboard?post=3453088

photo: stan evans/expn

Skullcandy New Zealand is proud to be co sponser for the Lincoln & Canterbury Uni Jib Jam.

Jib Jam is a chilled out jam format where everyone gets an opportunity to give it a go.

Open to skiers and boarders from both Lincoln & Canterbury Uni.

There will be two set ups:

A lower, more mellow drop in with a flat box or something for first timers and/or people that are not as confident.

And; a higher drop in ramp with a more tech feature like a battle ship/longer box which will have some a quarter pipe.

There will be spot prizes for the people who enter and prizes for best trick with male – female categories, which will be rider judged.

As well as this there will be fundraising happening for Lincoln Uni’s snow games team which are competing down in Wanaka in August at NZ Uni games.

There will be other stuff like a DJ/Band, and the usual student hook ups