Alyssa Roenigk sports • adventure • travel • journalist

The new issue of ESPN The Mag is out, with my feature on 18-year-old motocross champ Ashley Fiolek. I spent time with Ashley and her family at their St. Augustine home in March for the story, which you can check out here. The photos (taken by my friend John Loomis) are really fantastic, and the…

Tuesday evening, I had the fantastic opportunity to take a spin with DC Shoes founder Ken Block in the passenger seat of his souped-up Subaru Impreza rally car as he performed his newest sport, Gymkhana. A mix of rally racing, drifting, stunt driving and art, Block is pioneering Gymkhana, a sport he all but invented…

Usually, when I go all Investigative Reporter at The Mag, I’m sent to uncover great universal truths, like whether or not having kids slows down top racecar drivers. (As I did for a story on last year’s IRL champ Scott Dixon, in preview of this weekend’s Indy 500. Check it out in this week’s issue…

Monday night, I took my friend Jenni to her first Major League Baseball game. Jenni grew up in Long Island, in a Mets household, but never made it to Shea. (Although, if she had a dime for every time someone “promised” to take her to a game … ) That needed to change! And with…

Last week, I drove out to the Red Bull motocross compound to check out their second of two summer freestyle motocross camps. It’s a new concept: coaches and clinics in action sports. Red Bull is merging mainstream sports ideals with action sports, and they are helping progress the sport and cultivate talented young riders who…

In the current issue of ESPN The Magazine, I talk to nine-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater about life after competitive surfing, what a 10th world title would mean to him and his thoughts for restructuring the world surfing tour. Check it out here. In last week’s Action Sports Report on ESPNTheMag.com, I chatted with…

I spent this past weekend in Long Beach for the Toyota Grand Prix. It was my first IRL race and I had an absolute blast. I am working on a story on last year’s IndyCar series (and Indy 500) champion Scott Dixon, so I spent a couple days with him, his wife, Emma, and his…

Monday afternoon, I spent the day hanging out at Paul Rodriguez’s skate warehouse in Canoga Park, Cali., while nine action sports athletes (Ryan Sheckler, P-Rod, Greg Lutzka, Chaz Ortiz, Steve McCann, TJ Ellis, Daniel Dhers, Luke Parslow and Adam Jones) filmed commercials for the 2009 Dew Tour. It’s tough enough to get these guys to…

This past Monday, I spent the day with tennis superstar Maria Sharapova for a story that will be in an upcoming issue of the magazine, due out early this summer. The piece is still under wraps, so I can’t/won’t tell you much about it, or which male athlete also flew out here to L.A. to…

I spent this past weekend with 15 of the best female snowboarders in the world at the second-annual Snow Angels Invitational, a women’s-only halfpipe contest created and hosted by 2002 Olympic silver medalist Gretchen Bleiler. The event was designed as a season-ending opportunity for the women to compete in a chill environment (the contest agenda…