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Mark "Gator" Rogowski (born August 10, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) was a figurehead of professional skateboarding in the 1980s and very early 1990s. His career ended when he was convicted of assaulting, raping and murdering Jessica Bergsten on March 6, 1992. His life was chronicled in a critically acclaimed 2003 documentary titled Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator by the American filmmaker Helen Stickler. Mark Anthony Rogowski was born in Brooklyn, New York but moved to Escondido, California at age three once his parents divorced. Rogowski was a gifted athlete, playing little league... MORE

Mark "Gator" Rogowski (born August 10, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) was a figurehead of professional skateboarding in the 1980s and very early 1990s. His career ended when he was convicted of assaulting, raping and murdering Jessica Bergsten on March 6, 1992. His life was chronicled in a critically acclaimed 2003 documentary titled Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator by the American filmmaker Helen Stickler. Mark Anthony Rogowski was born in Brooklyn, New York but moved to Escondido, California at age three once his parents divorced. Rogowski was a gifted athlete, playing little league baseball in his youth. Rogowski started to skateboard at age seven. When Rogowski was ten years old, while most of his friends were into surfing, he started to hang out at skate parks. After two years of skating local parks, Rogowski was picked up by a local skate team in 1978 at age 12. Rogowski started his professional skateboarding career in 1980 at age 14. In 1982, he won his first major contest: the Canadian Amateur Skate-boarding Championships in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1984, he won a national championship. He had endorsement deals with Gullwing Trucks and Vision Street Wear, and his LESS