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Ortiz poised to become the next great skater

By Lucas O'Neill
ESPN RISE Magazine

Monday, May 11, 2009

If you want to know what it's like to be famous at 15, don't ask Chaz Ortiz. For all the accomplishments already behind him, all the hype that currently surrounds him and all the expectations before him, the 5-foot-2-on-his-tippy-toes, buck-nothing-when-soaking-wet skateboarding phenom just doesn't see himself that way. This seems hard to fathom considering all that's happened to Ortiz in the past year alone. Last June, he joined the Am Team at Zoo York, a skateboard and apparel company th ...

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