Alexa Score Biography
Alexa Score is a wakeboard pro, TV personality, motivational speaker, and cancer survivor. She is a Minnesota Vikings TV personality, cohost of Made for the Outdoors (Sportsman Channel and Fox Sports Networks), cohost of Destination Polaris (Fox Sports Networks), and a member of The CW Twin Cities on-air staff.
She graduated high school early with honors and relocated to Orlando, Florida in January 2008, at the age of 17, to pursue her wakeboarding career. She attended the University of Central Florida while practicing and competing in wakeboarding and graduated in 2012 with a degree in Finance.
Alexa Score Age
She is 33 years old as of April 28, 2023. She was born on April 28, 1990, in Willmar, Minnesota.
Alexa Score Family (Parents and Siblings)
Score was the son of Richard and Nancy Score. Alexa grew up with her father, Richard, in the small town of Spicer, Minnesota. Her mother relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1998, and Tiffany, her older sister, left for college the following year.
Alexa Score Wakeboarding
She fell in love with wakeboarding at the age of 14 and vowed to go pro one day. Alexa skied professionally for Tommy Bartlett’s Water Ski Show in Wisconsin Dells for two summers between the ages of 16 and 17. She spent years practicing, attending to school, and working to fund her passion after coming to Orlando, Florida at the age of 17 to follow her goal. On her 21st birthday, April 28th, 2011, she competed in her first pro wakeboard contest at “Wake Games” in Orlando, Florida. She went on to participate in both boat and cable channels for six years, while her work was mostly focused on lifestyle and brand representation.
She represented Liquid Force, SPY Optic, HDX Mix, SeaDoo, LifeProof, Hard Rock Café, and other products. She has appeared in Wakeboarding Magazine, Alliance Wake Magazine, Cancer Today, UCF Pegasus, Fluid Magazine, and other publications. Despite the fact that she is no longer participating, Alexa remains an ambassador for the sport and continues to wakeboard, waterski, and spend as much time as she can on the water.
Alexa Score Leukemia
At the age of sixteen, Alexa received a diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia on December 1, 2006. At that time, bone marrow transplant was the only primary treatment for her disease, and many doctors predicted that she would only live for five years. She decided not to have a transplant and instead tried the brand-new, experimental oral chemotherapy drug Gleevec (imatinib) on the advice of one doctor. She endured numerous side effects, including excruciating bone pain, and spent months in bed.
At one point, the pain got so bad that the doctors told her to get a transplant because she couldn’t live on Gleevec. She went from being unable to walk to competing in the overnight Minnesota Section 6 gymnastics tournament, where she won the balance beam and placed fourth on the floor exercise, earning her an individual trip to the state tournament and leading her team to the state tournament for the first (and only) time in school history. However, after attempting an experimental combination of steroids, she went from being unable to walk to competing. Alexa continues to have cancer and takes Gleevec every day, which has many side effects. She is one of the patients who has been taking the medication for the longest because most cancer patients will most likely develop resistance to it within five years.
She uses her platform to raise money and awareness for a number of charities, including BeTheMatch.org, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and other local chapters of other local charities. She is also a proponent of the online healthcare platform SteadyMD.
Alexa has prioritized maintaining an active, energetic, and healthy lifestyle despite the constant side effects of cancer treatment. She uses her platform to raise awareness of her disease among students, professionals, survivors, and those battling it.