Jesse Fritsch (born December 1, 1978 in Boulder, Colorado) is a professional American skateboarder. Fritsch won the Vert Best Trick at Summer Nationals in Jacksonville, Florida in 2003, and finished in sixth place at the Globe World Cup in Melbourne, Australia the same year. Fritsch grew up in State College, Pennsylvania, and has been skating since 1990.
Fritsch co-hosts "Tony Hawk Demolition Radio", a talk/music radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio, on a weekly basis. His skating sponsorships include Lost Enterprises, etnies, Krux Trucks, Accel Urethane, Von Zipper, and Fender Guitars.
Jesse is the son of Dr. J. Michael (Mike) Fritsch a Distinguished Professor of Meteorology (Emeritus) who taught at Penn State for many years before retiring in 2003.
Along with school friend Josh Vargo, Fritsch created music for a large number of etnies commercials. While working on various skate commercials, he met the other future band members of what would become Sayvinyl. Sayvinyl released one full-length album entitled "God Forbid" during the summer of 2008 before disbanding during December, 2009.