Louise Forsley (born 7 June 1990) 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.
Biography Forsley was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and 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.
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.
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.
National Trials Championship Career
Year Class Machine Rd1 Rd2 Rd3 Rd4 Rd5 Rd6 Rd7 Rd8 Rd9 Rd10 Rd11 Rd12 Rd13 Points Pos Notes 2003 NATC Women's Scorpa CA6 CA5 WA- WA- OR- OR- PA3 PA3 RI4 RI4 WY7 WY5 CA- 125 4th 2004 NATC Women's Sherco TN2 TN2 CO3 CO3 CA1 OH2 OH3 VT1 VT2 135 3rd 2005 NATC Women's Sherco TX3 TX2 TN2 TN2 CO2 CO1 CA3 CA3 VT1 VT1 NY- NY- 190 2nd 2006 NATC Women's Expert Sportsman Sherco AZ1 AZ1 OK1 OK2 TN1 TN- RI- RI- 145 1st NATC Women's ES Champion 2009 NATC Expert Gas Gas NE7 NE7 TN6 TN- VT7 VT- NY10 NY8 70 7th 2011 NATC Women's Expert Sportsman Sherco TX1 TX1 PA1 PA1 TN1 TN1 TN1 150 1st NATC Women's ES Champion 2012 NATC Women's Expert Sportsman Sherco CA1 CA1 CO1 CO1 OH1 OH1 RI1 RI1 150 1st NATC Women's ES Champion 2019 NATC Women's Pro Scorpa NE- NE- MN- MN- CO2 CO2 OR1 OR1 110 3rd
FIM World Women's Trials Championship Career
Year Team 1 2 3 Points Rank 2004 Sherco SPA15 SPA14 3 17th 2005 Sherco ITA12 ITA- 4 15th 2006 Sherco AND6 BEL8 FRA9 18 8th 2007 Sherco CZE15 BEL- GBR9 8 12th 2008 Gas-Gas LUX- SPA5 AND11 16 9th 2011 Sherco GER- CZE- ITA14 2 19th
Honors NATC Women's Expert Sportsman Trials Champion 2006, 2011, 2012
Stunt Performance
Since 2015, Forsley has been doing theatrical and stunt performance as Black Widow for the show Marvel Universe Live!
Related Reading NATC Trials Championship FIM Trial World Championship
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