Patti McGee


Patti McGee was the 1964 Women's first National Skateboard Champion, Santa Monica.
Her first skateboard was built by her brother in wood shop from her own shoe skate as a surprise. Her second skateboard was a BunBuster.
While on the Cooley Team, and standing on a BunBuster, McGee set the world record for the fastest girl on a skateboard at 47mph during Dick Clark's World Teen Fair 1964 held at the Orange County Fair Grounds.
McGee was also the first female professional skateboarder. She was paid by Hobie/Vita Pak to travel and demonstrate the Hobie skateboard on a national level. This lasted almost a year until the craze subsided.
During the tour, McGee appeared on the occupation-guessing TV game show What's My Line? on May 16, 1965, without a skateboard, and with a skateboard on The Johnny Carson Show the following evening. McGee was featured on the cover of Life magazine May 14, 1965 and the cover of the fourth issue of Skateboarder in October 1965.
In 2010, McGee was the first woman inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame at IASC's Second Annual Skateboarding Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.