Louise Forsley | |
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Nationality | American |
Born | Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States | 7 June 1988
Louise Forsley (born 7 June 1990 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States) is an International Women's motorcycle trials rider. Forsley rode the US NATC National Championships and the FIM World Trials Championships. Forsley is a two time Women's National Champion. Louise competed in the 2012 Xgames in Los Angeles, California and took home the silver medal.
Forsley grew up in Bernardston, Massachusetts. She finished third in the 2004 US NATC Women's Trials Championship behind the Canadian Gas Gas duo of Christy Williams and Kerry Williams. She was selected as part of the US Trial des Nations team and traveled to Spain along with Nicole Bradford and Debbie Evans Leavitt. The team finished 8th. [1]
In 2005, she went one better with a runner-up position behind Christy Williams. Once more Forsley was selected for the US Women's Trial des Nations team, this time the event was held in Italy. The team of Forsley, Bradford and Sarah Duke finished in 9th place. [1]
For the next several years she concentrated on riding the FIM Trial World Championship with a best result of 5th place in Spain during the 2008 Championship.
She returned to US National competition in 2011, taking the NATC Women's Expert Sportsman Championship after remaining unbeaten all year, putting together the perfect season, a feat she repeated the following year.
Year | Class | Machine | Rd 1 | Rd 2 | Rd 3 | Rd 4 | Rd 5 | Rd 6 | Rd 7 | Rd 8 | Rd 9 | Rd 10 | Rd 11 | Rd 12 | Rd 13 | Points | Pos | Notes |
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2003 | NATC Women's | Scorpa | CA 6 | CA 5 | WA - | WA - | OR - | OR - | PA 3 | PA 3 | RI 4 | RI 4 | WY 7 | WY 5 | CA - | 125 | 4th | |
2004 | NATC Women's | Sherco | TN 2 | TN 2 | CO 3 | CO 3 | CA 1 | OH 2 | OH 3 | VT 1 | VT 2 | 135 | 3rd | |||||
2005 | NATC Women's | Sherco | TX 3 | TX 2 | TN 2 | TN 2 | CO 2 | CO 1 | CA 3 | CA 3 | VT 1 | VT 1 | NY - | NY - | 190 | 2nd | ||
2006 | NATC Women's Expert Sportsman | Sherco | AZ 1 | AZ 1 | OK 1 | OK 2 | TN 1 | TN - | RI - | RI - | 145 | 1st | NATC Women's ES Champion | |||||
2009 | NATC Expert | Gas Gas | NE 7 | NE 7 | TN 6 | TN - | VT 7 | VT - | NY 10 | NY 8 | 70 | 7th | ||||||
2011 | NATC Women's Expert Sportsman | Sherco | TX 1 | TX 1 | PA 1 | PA 1 | TN 1 | TN 1 | TN 1 | 150 | 1st | NATC Women's ES Champion | ||||||
2012 | NATC Women's Expert Sportsman | Sherco | CA 1 | CA 1 | CO 1 | CO 1 | OH 1 | OH 1 | RI 1 | RI 1 | 150 | 1st | NATC Women's ES Champion | |||||
2019 | NATC Women's Pro | Scorpa | NE - | NE - | MN - | MN - | CO 2 | CO 2 | OR 1 | OR 1 | 110 | 3rd |
Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Points | Rank | |
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2004 | Sherco | SPA 15 | SPA 14 | 3 | 17th | ||
2005 | Sherco | ITA 12 | ITA - | 4 | 15th | ||
2006 | Sherco | AND 6 | BEL 8 | FRA 9 | 18 | 8th | |
2007 | Sherco | CZE 15 | BEL - | GBR 9 | 8 | 12th | |
2008 | Gas-Gas | LUX - | SPA 5 | AND 11 | 16 | 9th | |
2011 | Sherco | GER - | CZE - | ITA 14 | 2 | 19th |
Since 2015, Forsley has been doing theatrical and stunt performance as Black Widow for the show Marvel Universe Live! [3]
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