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 ...

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 ...

The Diva Cup Surf Invitational is San Luis Obispo County’s only women’s surf competition, and one of just a few female-first contests in all of California.

When surfing became a professional sport, there was “no room” for women. These gnarly pioneers changed everything.

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, ...