Tanya Faux

Nickname: T-Faux
 
Age: 19 hehehe, no really 31, no commenting on my wrinkles!
 
State/Hometown: mmmm my Van? Called “Stubbie” Hanging in Reno, Nevada right now. I grew up in Victoria Australia.
 
Favorite place to paddle: Alpine Creeks! It doesn’t matter what country. I love the big sky, clear blue water and granite rocks.

For freestyle the Ottawa, Canada for shore!
 
Playboat: Project 45
 
Creekboat: Habitat 74
 
Favorite Move: Bread and Butter
 
Favorite Music: The Sounds and The Cliks
 
Favorite Drop: Leaven Canyon Tasmania
 
Hobbies Besides Kayaking: Cooking, let me loose at a Whole Foods and  I am lost for hours in the imagination of food.

Accomplishments:

• 2008 Australian Adventure of the Year, First Descent of the Moran and Mitchell Rivers –Kimberley Australia,
• 2007 Silver Medalist ICF World Freestyle Kayaking Champion
• 2007 Australian Female Canoeist of the Year
• 2006 ICF World Cup Freestyle Champions
• 3 Time Paddler Magazine Invitational Champion, Steamboat CO.
• 3 Time Reno River Festival Champion

Why you love kayaking:
Every cell in my body goes crazy when I am shooting a rapid or surfing a wave! I feel a sense of belonging to the river! There is nothing else like kayaking to give me a natural high!

My closest friends are from the river also, arrr those road trips! Boating all day and then driving all night, best moments in my life!