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CBC
20 hours ago
- Sport
- CBC
Canada's Erin Brooks named rookie of the year on World Surf League Championship Tour
Canada's Erin Brooks has been named the 2025 Rookie of the Year for the World Surf League Championship Tour. The only women's rookie to make the mid-season cut, Brooks finished her debut season ranked eighth in the world. The 18-year-old is the first Canadian to qualify for the tour, Brooks debuted with high expectations, elevated by a victory in her first-ever World Surf League appearance as a wild card in the final event of the 2024 season in Fiji. Brooks rose to the top of the strong rookie pack and kept herself in contention for the Final 5 right up until the final qualifying event in Tahiti. Her three semifinal appearances this season all came at notoriously difficult-to-read, shifting sand-bottom breaks, including Supertubos, Portugal, Burleigh Heads, Australia, and Saquarema, Brazil. The standout moment of Brooks's season was the quarterfinals of the Bonsoy Gold Coast Pro, where her hyper-critical backhand earned the second-highest heat total of the women's season, 17.76 (out of a possible 20), to defeat eight-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore of Australia. Brooks was born in Texas and grew up in Hawaii but has Canadian ties through her American-born father Jeff, who is a dual American-Canadian citizen, and her grandfather who was born and raised in Montreal. Brooks's citizenship bid was initially turned down but Immigration Minister Marc Miller had a change of heart in January 2024 after a ruling by Ontario's Superior Court of Justice that it is unconstitutional for Canada to deny automatic citizenship to the children of foreign-born Canadians who grew up abroad.
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mikey February Puts on a Clinic at This Mexican Pointbreak
The name Mikey February mentioned in the same sentence as the words 'twin fin' should get everybody excited. I'm pretty sure most surfers do get a little giddy when they hear them all mixed together. 'Even if he's not riding a twin fin, he surfs like someone riding a twin fin. Fast, loose, and on the brink,' Senior Editor Alex Haro once said about watching February on a large day at Supertubos, a wave nobody ever associates with twin fins. Now, if a shaper did decide to design a twin fin for such waves — the kind that are faster, steeper, and larger than what the average Joe grabs their twinny for — they'd probably do so with Mikey February in mind. That's how we got the Twin Pin from Channel Islands, which Britt Merrick crafted with the South African surfer over the course of two years. This clip is an insane collection of bottom turns to barrels to cutties to carves on a dreamlike day in Mexico. It's the kind of stylistic display you could only imagine from Mikey February and a very short list of world class talent. The takeoff is overhead. The barrels are long and reliable. And the crowd looks far from heinous, which is the best part.
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Picklum misses out on WSL top spot with Supertubos loss
Australian Molly Picklum has missed out on the chance to surge to the top of the World Surf League standings after being edged to defeat by Olympic champ Caroline Marks on a long, challenging finals day in the famed Supertubos waves. Both Picklum and her fellow Aussie Ethan Ewing, in the men's event, were defeated in semi-finals at the Rip Curl Pro event in Portugal on Sunday while Marks and Yago Dora went on to be crowned champions on the third leg of the WSL tour. The consolation for the Australian pair was to improve their positions in the overall standings, with Picklum strengthening her second-place in the women's program and Ewing moving up one spot to third in the men's list. Ethan on a Supertubos bomb 💣📺 Finals Day at the #ProPortugal is LIVE.@meopt @ripcurl @corona @visitportugal — World Surf League (@wsl) March 23, 2025 But the 22-year-old Gosford surfer Picklum must have been hoping for even better, knowing victory in Portugal would have elevated her to the top of the standings after a second and third place in the year's other two competitions. She had a long wait during the week to return to action as weather conditions kept her sidelined and, as for the rest of the surfers, she had to contend with strong winds and a testing rip at Peniche. In a tight contest which only came alive in the latter stages, she was beaten by just 1.03 points (8.53-7.50) by Marks, who then went on to edge another close battle with Hawaiian youngster Gabriela Bryan 7.90 to 6.97 in the final. Picklum's third-place gives her 19,970 points for the season, narrowing the gap in the overall race behind American leader Caitlin Simmers, who is on 22,545, with Marks moving up to third on 19,490. On a particularly long and arduous day of catch-up for the men, Ewing proved the best of the Australians, beating American Cole Houshmand (USA) 12.76-7.94 in the last-16, and Brazilian Filipe Toledo 12.50-8.96 in the quarters, before losing with a calamitous series against eventual winner Dora in the semis, 12.83-3.50. Jack Robinson got to the quarters after beating fellow Australian Liam O'Brien, but he too was no match for Dora, who defeated him 15.50-8.50 in the last-eight. Dora went on to take the Portugal trophy by beating fellow Brazilian Italo Ferreira, 13.37 to 12.43, in the final. The 26-year-old Queenslander Ewing moved up to third in the standings on 15,490 points, behind leader Ferreira (23,885) and Hawaii's Barron Mamiya (17,415), while Robinson is seventh on 12,160.
