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2015 Grom of the Year: Rachael Tilly

Staff by Staff
January 4, 2016 12:10PM
in Grom of the Week, SC SURF, Surf Headlines
2015 Grom of the Year: Rachael Tilly

Rachael Tilly addresses a hometown crowd Dec. 16 at the Hobie Surf Shop in San Clemente where a welcome home victory party was held in her honor. Photo: Andrea Swayne

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Rachael Tilly of Capistrano Beach is chaired up the beach Tuesday in China after winning the WSL 2015 Jeep Women’s World Longboard Championship. Photo: WSL/Hain
Rachael Tilly of Capistrano Beach is chaired up the beach Tuesday in China after winning the WSL 2015 Jeep Women’s World Longboard Championship. Photo: WSL/Hain

By Andrea Swayne

Rachael Tilly, 17, of Capistrano Beach, set out in 2015 with something to prove. As an already accomplished longboard surfer on the verge of leaving her grom years behind, Rachael began training for one last shot at realizing her dream of becoming the youngest professional women’s longboard world champion in history. And with grit, determination and a renewed commitment to competition surfing, she succeeded.

Rachael Tilly with a beautiful, 10-over noseride on her way to being crowned world champion in China. Photo: WSL/Will
Rachael Tilly with a beautiful, 10-over noseride on her way to being crowned world champion in China. Photo: WSL/Will

On Dec. 8, at the World Surf League 2015 Jeep Women’s World Longboard Championship in China, Rachael became the youngest WSL/ASP world champion ever.

It was her third time qualifying for the event. After failing to advance out of preliminary rounds on her first two attempts, the months leading up to the world championship were spent taking everything she’d learned, re-doubling her efforts and focusing on developing a world-class competition strategy, including better wave selection and patience.

With so few pro longboard events offered each year, Rachael had also decided to take as many competition opportunities as she could find in 2015. She surfed for the San Clemente High School surf team and returned to the Western Surfing Association Championship Tour events to continually test herself under pressure, she said.

Her hard work actually paid off twofold, having also won the national title (her second, having won in 2013 as well) at the WSL North America Women’s Longboard Championships in November and then riding her wave of momentum to be crowned the world’s top woman longboarder.

 

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