Five-time world champ Carissa Moore announced her retirement from competitive surfing in January.
She surfed her last heat at Pipeline in the Lexus Pipe Pro shortly after.
A new profile by Red Bull celebrates Moore’s legacy, listing her accomplishments in the timeline below.
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Opening the article, writer Natalie Hamingson says that Moore was “born to surf” and started surfing at five years old with her dad, a former competitive swimmer who’d later become her coach.
“By the time I was 12, we had a more serious conversation, saying, ‘Is this something I really want to do?’” Moore told Hamingson. “I knew it was going to be a lot of hard work, but I also knew it would be really fun.”
And the rest, as they say, is history. Below are some of Moore’s career highs, according to the article.
- Moore “landed her first National Scholastic Surfing Association win in 2004” and today holds the record for most NSSA Nationals wins with 11 titles.
- At 16 years old, “she was the youngest to win first place at the Reef Hawaiian Pro’s Triple Crown of Surfing.”
- She first competed in the former Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Tour in 2007 at the Women’s World Tour Roxy Pro event as a wildcard as the youngest surfer to compete in a Final ASP World Title event up to that point.
- In 2009, Moore again joined ASP as a wildcard and took first place at the Gidget Pro Sunset Beach.
- In 2010, she qualified for her first full season on the ASP World Tour and after three wins, placed third overall before earning the title of 2010 Rookie of the Year.
- In 2011, Moore earned her first World Title after three first-place wins.
- She landed her second and third world titles in 2013 and 2015, her fourth in 2019, and her fifth in 2021.
- When she was 21, she was inducted into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame, and Hawaii named January 4 “Carissa Moore Day.”
- In 2009, “she graced the cover of Surfer Magazine” as the fourth-ever woman to get a front-page athlete profile in the magazine.
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