Legacy & Recognition
For 50+ years, Woodward PA has been the place where action sports are learned, pushed and perfected, all the way to the Olympic podium. Every claim below links to its source.
Thirty-six athletes with Woodward ties competed at the Paris 2024 Olympics, and medalists including past Woodward PA campers took the podium in skateboarding and BMX. The original action-sports camp is still where the next generation of champions is made.
Every item below links to the source behind it: Olympic coverage, the camp’s documented history and Woodward’s own site. Nothing is inflated to fill space.
Thirty-six athletes with Woodward ties competed at the Paris 2024 Games, and medalists including past Woodward PA campers took the podium in skateboarding and BMX. This is where Olympians are made.
In April 2024, Great Britain’s national BMX team trained at Woodward PA ahead of the Olympics, and one of its riders went on to earn a medal in Paris. The world’s best come here to level up.
Woodward was founded in 1970 by Edward Isabelle, a former All-American gymnast and head gymnastics coach at Penn State. It started as a gymnastics camp, then changed action sports forever.
From gymnastics to BMX in the early 1980s, then skateboarding and beyond. Woodward PA is the campus where the action-sports camp was invented. Fifty-plus years on, it’s still the OG.
Massive indoor and outdoor skateparks, BMX tracks, mountain bike trails, foam pits and a creative arts program. A progression playground built over five decades.
Woodward is part of POWDR’s family of adventure-lifestyle brands, with a national outdoor company standing behind the original action-sports camp.
A featured affiliate partner of K12 Academics, the education-resource network online since 2004 and reaching families in 185 countries every month.
Behind the Olympians is the place itself: an iconic Pennsylvania campus built for progression, from the first drop-in to the biggest air.
Fifty-plus years, a roster of Olympians and the facilities that made action sports what they are. All at the original Woodward.
Athletes with Woodward ties.
The original camp.
Still the OG.
Woodward’s Paris 2024 Olympic connections (36 athletes with Woodward ties; Woodward PA campers who medaled; the Great Britain national BMX team training at Woodward PA) are reported by KPCW; its 1970 founding and history by Wikipedia. Facilities and POWDR ownership are as published by Woodward. Woodward PA serves campers ages 7–17.