Anna Macken got her inspiration from Mills College professor of entrepreneurship Ellen O’Connor, who told her, “Just get out there and go for it.”
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel. For the full story, click here.

Jessica Santorik is the defending champion in the Open Women’s Division and is odds-on favourite to win a fourth successive title this year.  Santorik is presently in Portugal competing for New Zealand at the 2008 ISA World Surfing Games.
Source: Surf.co.nz. For the full story, click here.

Matched up together in the Open Women’s Division, Daisy Thomas (Chch) and Jessica Santorik (Rag found themselves finishing their heat in third and fourth place respectively and they were eliminated from the event.  In a low scoring battle both surfers only needed 4.0 point rides to progress but could not find the tricky beach break waves to advance.  Thomas finished 25th overall while Santorik finished 31st.
Source: Surf.co.nz. For the full story, click here.

As we shift focus back to the trenches, critical events unfolding on both sides of the equator, the final ASP WQS 6-Star PRIME before Hawaii underway in the Canaries and the second of a three-event sweep of 6-Stars running concurrently in Brazil.
Source: Global Surf News. For the full story, click here.

Banzai Productions is happy to announce the one year anniversary of Wahine Blue TV on Ocean Network in Hawaii. Wahine Blue Tv is a show that features Women athletes and is the first ever monthly production that covers Women doing the water sports they love.
Source: Global Surf News. For the full story, click here.

First, Jason Torres, Luis Vindas and Jairo Pérez demonstrated outstanding skills, enough to classify for the quarterfinals of the Open category. Later in the day, in her own Heats, Nataly Bernold, the youngest surfer in this international competition with 15 years of age, repeated the same feat, and was set in the quarterfinals of the Women’s division as well. This is a new world record.
Source: Drift Magazine. For the full story, click here.

Red hot Hawaiian surfer Carissa Moore has claimed top honors in the Heartbreaker division of the Billabong Freewave Challenge Mainland edition.  The 16-year-old phenomenon had both the first- and second-placing waves in the online event, which examined the best surfing performances captured on video on the US Mainland during the summer months ending September 22, 2008.
Source: Global Surf News. For the full story, click here.

Tarryn Chudleigh was the star performer for the South African surfing team as the women took to the surf for the first time on Day 3 of the 2008 ISA World Surfing Games at Costa de Caparica in Portugal.
Source: Global Surf News. For the full story, click here.

Whilst future superstar’s Ellie-Jean Coffey (Crescent Head, NSW) and Emily Clapoudis (Port Macquarie, NSW) will be the one’s to watch in the under 16 girls division.
Source: Global Surf News. For the full story, click here.

Gerroa surfing sensation Sally Fitzgibbons started her 2008 ISA World Surfing Games campaign in good form at Costa de Caparica, Portugal, yesterday.
Source: Illawarra Mercury. For the full story, click here.