Ashley Fiolek is the reigning Women's Motocross champion and has so far dominated the beginning of the 2009 season.
2008 Women's Motocross Association Champion Ashley Fiolek is featured in a four-page article in ESPN The Magazine's July issue. ESPN The Magazine has a circulation of nearly two-million readers, and the July issue featuring Fiolek goes on sale today.
Honda Red Bull Racing's Fiolek currently leads the 2009 Lucas Oil Motocross Championship's Women's Motocross (WMX) class with two wins in the first two national-championship events of 2009. Fiolek races round three at the Flagstar Bank National at Freestone Raceway in Wortham, TX on June 6.
The ESPN The Magazine feature adds to the unprecedented general-media exposure the deaf motocross star receives. To view the online version of the feature see:
espn.go.com/action/news/story?id=4227966
About Ashley Fiolek
Born profoundly deaf, Ashley began riding and racing motorcycles at age seven and worked her way up the amateur motocross ranks. In 2004, at the age of 13, she won her first national championship at the AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships at Loretta Lynn’s. Between 2005 and 2007 she went on to win 12 more national championships and more than 100 races.
2008 marked Ashley’s first full season as a professional and she competed in select world championship rounds in Europe and won the AMA/WMA Women’s Professional Motocross Championship. Ashley is proudly supported by: American Honda, Red Bull, T-Mobile Sidekick, Alpinestars, RXR Protection, Vans and Smith. For more information
about Ashley, see:
www.ashleyfiolek.com.
