Early life Alexis Sablone was born on August 12, 1986, and grew up in
Old Saybrook, Connecticut. When she was nine years old Sablone began teaching herself how to skate in her mom's garage by watching old VHS tapes and mimicking what she saw. She attended The Country School in nearby
Madison, Connecticut, where she met other skateboarders. As she told
ESPN in a 2011 interview: "I would just skate alone every night in the garage and on my porch. In fifth grade, I changed schools and there were a few skaters there [in Madison, Conn.]. We would all bring our skateboards to school – I don't really know what we did with them, though, because we didn't skate at school! But that was the first contact I had with other skaters... The closest skate park to my parents' house was in Guilford, and that was like 40 minutes away. I tried to go there every weekend. But during the week it was just me."
Early skateboarding career Sablone entered her first contest when she was 12 years old, an all-girls skate jam in
Rhode Island, where she earned second place. However, after trying to get an agent and being told there was no market for women in skateboarding Sablone decided to pursue other interests. As Sablone stated, "By 2009, the whole ankle injury thing was finally history and I was past the whole no-contest mindset. I'm not going to say it was all luck, but I do feel very lucky to have done well in my first two X Games." Sablone also began competing in the
Dew Tour, including the 2010 International Skateboarding Federation (ISF) Skate Park Finals where she placed third. By 2012 Sablone's earnings from competitions allowed her to enroll in
MIT's master's of architecture program. She graduated from the program in 2016, and is planning on turning her thesis, "Nuclear Oasis: The Story of 10,000-year-old Trash" into a graphic novel. While enrolled in graduate school Sablone also won the 2015
World Skateboarding Championship for women's street, sharing the largest prize purse in competitive skateboarding with
Nyjah Huston and Jimmy Wilkins.
Professional career Sablone received her first signature pro deck in 2017 as the first female member of the WKND Skateboards team. video released by WKND in 2018 and illustrated some of board graphics for the company. In 2018, she was invited to design a skate-able sculpture for a public square in
Malmö, Sweden. "'Lady In The Square' is an artistic interpretation of a woman’s face from an aerial view, but up close it forms a grouping of skate obstacles set on top of a three-stair square. This project is an example of a perfect incorporation of skateboarding and fine art into public space." In June 2019, Sablone collaborated with
Converse to release her first pro model sneakers: white suede low-top One Star Pros with an ochre star.
Vogue explained the significance of Sablone's accomplishment in May 2019 article: "Beyond being a symbol of athletic achievement, pro model merchandise offers female skaters an important opportunity to monetize their success. It was only last year that Sablone and her peers were able to make a living wage off of their sport." Sablone placed second in the women's street event at the USA Skateboarding National Championships in October 2019. On the international circuit in 2019, she placed seventh at the World Skate SLS World Championship in September and repeated the performance for seventh place in the World Skate Oi STU Open Women's Street finals in November. Sablone parted ways with WKND in early 2020, and in November 2020 announced she had joined Alltimers Skateboards. In early June 2021 Sablone released another collaboration with Converse, "an all-white quilted, high-top take on the classic Jack Purcell model with a tiny rainbow tab attached to the back. The company calls it her 'Pride' shoe." a
genderless sneaker inspired by retro designs of the 1980s and 1990s. On January 15, 2026 the
Skateboarding Hall of Fame announced Sablone will be included as a 2026 inductee. == Tokyo Olympics ==