USA Skateboarding is the USOPC-recognized National Governing Body for Skateboarding in the United States. MISSION USA Skateboarding (USAS) is formally organized and incorporated as Skateboarding's National Governing Body (NGB). USAS has been established to provide direction and governance for the sport of skateboarding, including, but not limited to, enabling United States athletes to achieve sustained competitive excellence in Olympic, Paralympic, Pan American and Parapan American competition and sanctioning competitions resulting in United States National Champions at both the amateur and professional level. USAS is dedicated to promoting and supporting the sport of Skateboarding, while striving to guarantee that Skateboarding continues to provide the unique characteristics important to the sport's participants, and maintaining the integrity and authenticity of Skateboarding as a sport, a passion and a lifestyle. HISTORY USA Skateboarding was founded in 2003 following the International Olympic Committee's request to the skateboarding industry to begin organizing for possible Olympic inclusion. As designed, USA Skateboarding lay dormant while the machinations of Skateboarding's inclusion in the Olympic Games proceeded at the international level for the next 13 years. In the lead up to the International Olympic Committee's August 3, 2016, announcement that skateboarding would appear in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, USAS began to modernize in order to meet the new National Governing Body (NGB) standards as described by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC). The USOPC officially recognized USAS application for recognition as the United States Skateboarding NGB on February 14, 2017. The USOPC accepted USAS application for recognition as the United States Skateboarding NGB on June 22, 2018.