Biography
Kate burst onto the women's professional surfing scene in 1999, winning her first Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Championship Tour (WCT) event in Tahiti. Since that time, she has earned victories at the Margaret River Pro and Nias Open World Qualifier Series events, and achieved a top-ten world ranking. She also has a budding acting, modeling and stuntwork career that includes feature roles in the motion picture Blue Crush (for which she earned a "Best Stunt" nomination at the Taurus World Stunt Awards), and in Sheryl Crow's Soak up the Sun music video. One of only a handful of women ever to surf the infamous "Pipeline" on the north shore of Oahu, Kate stands at the forefront of the women's extreme surfing movement, employing some of the same radical techniques used by the world's premier men. Kate was also the co-founder of International Women's Surfing, an ASP organization dedicated to advancing women's professional surfing. She is a graduate of Wollongong University in New South Wales, Australia, where she received a B.S. in Human Movement.

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Career Highlights

2003
5th Billabong Pro Teahupoo, Tahiti

2002
3rd Roxy Pro, Australia
5th Roxy Pro, Fiji
5th Billabong Pro Teahupoo, Tahiti

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