Lavin succeeds fellow Dew Action Sports Tour competitor and action sports icon, Dave Mirra who hosted the program's previous season.
Lavin recently competed in the Dew Action Sports Tour, the first professional league in action sports history. The tour hosts the top action sports athletes in the world vying for the $3.5 million in prize money and unparalleled television exposure with 32 hours of national programming on NBC and USA. 39,000,000 unduplicated viewers tuned into the Dew Tour during the course of the 2005 season making it the largest television audience in action sports history.
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