Joyce Hoffman

Joyce Hoffman is an American surfer from Dana Point, California, widely regarded as a pioneer of women's surfing and as the first female international surfing star. She began competing at an early age and collected a long list of titles in the 1960s and early 1970s, including the US Surfing Championship for women in 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1971, the Makaha International Open in 1964 and 1966, and a world championship held in Lima, Peru, in 1966. In 1968 she became the first woman to surf the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii. She was among the first people inducted into the International Surfing Hall of Fame, was named Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year in 1965 (the only surfer to receive that honour), and was also known as a leading female motocross rider. A bronze statue of her on a surfboard was installed at Watermen's Plaza in Dana Point in 2022.