Pam Burridge

Pam Burridge is an Australian surfer, born on 26 July 1965 in Sydney, and one of the pioneers of women's surfing in Australia. She entered her first surfing competition in 1977 and went on to win a series of regional and national titles in the years that followed. She began competing internationally in 1981 and won the women's ASP World Tour in 1990, the sport's world championship of that era. Burridge was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1995 and was given a place on Huntington Beach's Surfing Walk of Fame in 2017. She took a break from competition between 1993 and 1996, then competed again until 1999. She now runs a surf school on the south coast of New South Wales. Outside the water, she released a single in 1984 called Summertime All 'Round the World under the name Pam and the Pashions, and Sydney Ferries named a HarbourCat vessel Pam Burridge in her honour.