Carol Philips

Carol Philips, born in 1966, is a pioneer of big-wave bodyboarding for women, based on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii. She was the first woman to compete against the men at the Banzai Pipeline and the first woman to hold a permit to run a contest there. In 1990 she founded the World Championship of Women's Bodyboarding in memory of Don and Josie Over. Her recorded results include Vice Champion at the 1993 Morey World Championships, United States women's bodyboarding champion in 1989 and 1991, and Hawaii state champion in 1990 and 1999. She runs the North Shore Surf Girls surf school, appears in the book North Shore Chronicles and the film Blue Crush, and was appointed in 2005 to a four-year term on the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women.