Caity Simmers

Caity Simmers was already top of this list months before she won her world title, declaring live to the world that her win was, “fucking crazy.” That’s Caity. In just two years the 18-year-old Californian has zapped the tour – and surfing more broadly – back to life. From teenage girls to middle-aged men, Caity Simmers is now everyone’s favourite surfer and leading a hydra of surfing movements. When she won Pipeline earlier this year, she put herself amongst a group of women now seemingly comfortable in any surf. Overlooked, she’s also led a youth insurgence, threatening to return surfing to its rightful owners. But even more than that, she looks set to upend a production line of sameness that extends beyond the pro tour and into lineups around the…

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Surfing World (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 424

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