Nike 6.0 Lower's Pro Wildcard Carissa Moore

So you gotta hand it to Carissa Moore for trying--the phenom from Oahu was the first girl to have entered in the WQS Lower’s Pro contest. At fifteen years old, she was the wildcard for the contest and her heat included veteran, and Lower’s local Shane Beschen, as well as ASP World Tour stalwart Adriano de Souza (BRA) and Australian upstart James Woods (Lennox Head, AUS). The girl fought hard, but in the end, Shane came up the winner. He is quoted as saying, "There was a lot of hype surrounding the heat with Carissa (Moore) in it because she was the first girl to surf the event, but I just went out and tried to surf it like any other heat.  I think everyone was looking at it the same way - we all just went out there and surfed." Glad to see that they treated her as any other competitor. Good job Carissa—you’ll get them next year!