Women’s surfing is at an all time high. Each year, the women have been raising the bar by dropping into bigger waves, sitting deeper in barrels, and landing aerials. And every year, the women on tour ...

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 ...

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, ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — To say Betty Heldreich was a pioneer in women's surfing is an understatement, she was really a frontierswoman leading the way in the 1950s surfing the waves of Hawaii. Her ...

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 ...

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 ...

GiGi Lucas can't help but chuckle as she tells her surfing origin story. She was in Costa Rica for a wedding and joined several friends as they decided to do the touristy thing and take a surf lesson.

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 ...

I may not be much of a surfer, but I sure like to float on a board on a bluebird day. That's how I discovered the Traveler Surf Club in Pacifica, a woman-founded and operated surf club that offers ...