Samantha Cornish

Samantha Cornish is an Australian surfer born on 27 October 1980. She began surfing at an early age and entered her first competition when she was eleven years old. Her father, Peter Cornish, was also a surfer. At fifteen she won the 1996 World Junior Championships, and in 2002 she entered the World Championship Tournament. Her listed accomplishments include the Rip Curl Australian Junior Title in 1998, first place at the Billabong Junior Series at Burleigh Heads in 2000, the Quiksilver Roxy Pro on the Gold Coast in 2000, the Billabong Pro Maui in 2003 and the Billabong Girls Pro at Itacare in Brazil in 2007, a win that put her at world number one in October 2007. She has been sponsored by various companies, among them Quiksilver.