Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Sharon Schaffer now lives in Playa del Rey, California. Thanks to the revolutionary guidance of her father, Ted Schaffer, a young Sharon and her sisters participated in a variety of athletics beyond the normal scope of their immediate community. He was a big influence and instilled at an early age the notion that anything is possible.

As a surfer, Sharon is the first African American woman ever to date to compete on the ASP/WQS professional circuit. She caught Joni Martin’s eye, a fellow woman surfer/writer surfing the Mexican Pipeline, otherwise known as Puerto Escondido. A wave of sponsorship followed after Joni had an article about Sharon published in Surfer Magazine.

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