Swank achieved notoriety as one of the earliest American skaters to compete in European contests, placing third in the 1985 French Open (hosted by the SCAF, the Skateboard Club of Fontainbleu) and seventh place that same year in the Scandinavian Open '1985. In 1987 Swank was featured on the cover of
Transworld Skateboarding as the subject of iconic photo titled
The Push, an image shot by
J. Grant Brittain, then senior photo editor of the magazine. ==References==