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[MANAGEMENT]
[BIO'S]
Profile |
| Name: |
Stephanie
Pettersen |
| Nickname: |
Miss
Barrel (by my bodyboard friends) |
| Home: |
Australia-Gold
Coast |
| Height: |
5’7” |
| Weight: |
56kg |
| Interests: |
Capoeira,squash
, dance, bike riding, sports in general. Spending time with my family+friends,
reading and movies |
| Goals: |
To achieve my
5th world title and to make bodyboarding a sport recognised professionally
world wide. |
| Age: |
19 |
| Favourite
Breaks: |
Australia, Hawaii
and Indo |
| Sponsors: |
Maxim
wetsuits(my own signature design-Japan),Ocean Zone surf shop(Japan) |
| Greatest
Achievement: |
4th times World
champion and 6th times Pipeline Champion |
| Favourite
Saying: |
If
you don’t have a dream, you won’t have a dream come true. |
| Smartest
thing you've ever done: |
Never listened
to my mom, when she told me to stop bodyboarding and take life more
seriously. |
| Biggest
Regret: |
Not
Traveling to more places. |
| Favourite
Food: |
Health food in
general |
Competition
Results 2003 |
| 1st
place at the Bud light Pipeline World Championships(March)-1st event
of the GOB WWT (Global Organisation of Bodyboarders) |
Competition
Results 2002 |
| GOB Women’s World Champion
2002 |
Competition
Results 2001 |
| 5th
place overall at the GOB Women’s World Tour |
Stephanie Pettersen , professional bodyboarder, born in Brazil, first came
to Australia in 1989 when she first fell in love with the country. In 1999
Stephanie moved permanently to Australia, where now she resides on the Gold
Coast, becoming an Australian Citizen in the year 2000.
Started bodyboarding at 15
years of age and began to compete just months after. Her first win in
competition was at the age of 17 years. By the time she was 20 years old,
in 1990 she had claimed her first Brazilian National title, and in the
same year claimed her first World Title at the infamous Banzai Pipeline.
She subsequently won the World Titles in 93 and 94.
Falling pregnant in 1994 she
continued to surf the points of Byron Bay until she was 6 months pregnant.
She gave birth to her Australian daughter, Yohanah Horan, at the end of
1994.
Leading the whole
year of the first GOB (Global Organisation of Bodyboarders) World Tour
in 1995, she was piped at the post in the final event.
The following year, she had
a serious accident at the Wave Pool in Texas, severely injuring her neck,
battling with the injury for the last half of the year, she still managed
to come 3rd place overall in the World.
Competing for the next 6 years, she remained in the top 7 World ratings,
leading the tour on numerous occasions. It was not until the end of 2001,
after long and consistent traveling and competing that her neck injury
finally caught up with her. While riding her bike down to the local beach
she pulled a muscle in her neck, which continued to get worse.
After getting X-rays of her
cervical spine (neck) it was found that her injury from 1996 was actually
a severe fracture of the 4th cervical vertebra in her neck (she was lucky
not to be in a wheel chair), which had degenerated over the years and
was pressing on her spinal cord.
In the year of the
2002 GOB Women’s World Tour (WWT), still struggling with the neck
injury, she was crowned Women’s World Champion, this time for Australia,
for the 4th time in her career.
In intense training and Chiropractic rehabilitation, Stephanie left to
Hawaii in beginning of March 2003, where she just came with an amazing
start. She brought home her 6th Pipeline World title winning The Pipeline
Bud Light World Championships, the first event for the WWT GOB World Tour
2003 and also the most respected event in Women’s Bodyboarding history.
Stephanie is now leading the WWT tour, she can’t get enough, she
hopes for her 5th World Title this year, to give an equal race to 5 times
World Surfing Champion Layne Beachley. Until now Layne is the only water
sport’s woman to achieved such a result. Best of luck to Stephanie.
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