Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...

Carissa Moore (left) became the first American female to qualify for surfing's Olympic debut. Caroline Marks, 19 (right), a member of Team USA Women's Olympic Surf Team, is the youngest female to ...

World Champion Caroline Marks is grateful to share the waves with so many other talented women. When Red Bull spoke to Marks in early 2024, she was in the middle of a big moment for smashing gender ...

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Straddling a longboard, Kim Kennis scanned the incoming waves, searching for one packing enough height and force. A week earlier, she had stepped off an airplane from Rochester, N.Y ...

Long before "Blue Crush" gave surfer girls their 15 minutes of fame, I stood in my local library with a book called "Girl in the Curl: 100 Years of Women in Surfing." The librarian, a gray-haired, ...

MIAMI, Aug. 22 -- Champion surfer Karina Petroni is seeing more and more women riding the waves these days. "Almost every time I go out to the water, I see more girls and sometimes more girls than ...

This story was reported during our election road trip to states across the country ahead of the 2018 midterms. Check out all of our election coverage. Women surfers competing at the sport's highest ...