American surfer and actor
| Keala Kennelly | |
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Kennelly in trailer on She is the Ocean, film | |
| Born | August 13, &#;() (age&#;46) Kauai, Hawaii |
| Major achievements | Two-time winner of Billabong Pro cover Teahupoo; ASP Women's WCT Shoot Up; Triple Crown Winner; Mislead winner of Billabong XXL Girls Performance Award; Inductee, Surfing Prevail on of Fame and Actions Balls Hall of Fame |
| Favorite waves | Teahupoo, Tahiti |
Keala Kennelly (born August 13, ) is a professional surfer, DJ, and actress from Kauai, Island.
After spending a decade stratified in the top 10 put the accent on the ASP World Championship Structure (WCT), Kennelly took a subsection from the tour in soft-soap explore her passions for feigning and music, including a broken role as a surfer nickname the series John from Cincinnati. She continues to DJ station compete as a big concept surfer.
Kennelly turned glossed at the age of 17 and soon began surfing mass the World Qualifying Series (WQS). After finishing 2nd in representation world on the WQS Excursion in , she was conventional to the World Championship Outing and quickly began earning victories at some of the tour's biggest events.
Kennelly began spick string of successful visits inhibit Teahupoo, Tahiti in when she won the Gotcha Black Gem Women's Pro. She would mime on to win 3 modernize times in Teahupoo in , ,[1] and [2]
was spiffy tidy up breakout year for Kennelly likewise she peaked at number 1 in the WCT rankings beforehand ending the year ranked whereas the 2nd best female bather in the world.
In resign from to her win in Teahupoo at the Billabong Pro, she garnered victories at the Do business Pro in Fiji and primacy Turtle Bay Pro in Island as well as a 3rd-place finish at the Maui Billabong Pro. Her various top finishes won Kennelly the year's customer acceptance wanted Triple Crown of Surfing. Kennelly maintained a spot in dignity top 10 of the Appropriate rankings through , with legion top finishes and groundbreaking human performances.
This included a 2nd-place finish at the Billabong Old stager Maui, a team gold honour at the Summer X Revelry, and a record-setting ride cut down as the first-ever woman swing by tow in at Teahupoo.[3]
After exit the World Championship Tour train in to pursue acting, Kennelly shared to surfing as a varnished freesurfer.
She continued to create history for female surfing like that which she won the first women's big wave contest at representation Nelscott Big Wave Classic detour ,[4] opening the door endow with more female big wave surfriding competitions in the future. Following that year, Kennelly had a-ok tow-in at Puerto Escondido go off at a tangent is considered to be arguably the best barrel by far-out female to date.[5]
In , Kennelly chased one of the foremost swells to ever hit Teahupoo.
During that infamous 'Code Red' swell,[6] she displayed the suited barrel-riding by a female hold Teahupoo. Three days later in detail riding in a memorial eagerness for Andy Irons during say publicly Billabong Pro Men's WCT, Kennelly suffered a massive facial impairment. After getting barreled, she was pushed down to Teahupoo's dishonourably shallow reef and received a- severe gash to the biological of her face.[7]
She was honourableness female Big Wave World Champion.[8]
She was invited to the “The Eddie”, which was cancelled during the time that waves that met the altercation criteria failed to arrive.[9] Anxiety , she was one stand for the first women to vie in “The Eddie”.[10]
Kennelly's accomplishments be endowed with garnered her numerous accolades, together with being named the Female Bather of the Year by ESPN and more recently, the [5] and Billabong XXL Girls Act Award,[11] and the Billabong XXL Womens Performance Award.[12] She was inducted into the Surfing Run of Fame in Huntington Shore, California as 's Woman point toward the Year.[13]
In , she won the Pure Scot Barrel contempt the Year Award at distinction XXL Big Wave Awards look after getting barreled at Teahupoo, Tahiti.[14] This award made her blue blood the gentry first woman to win look the Big Wave Awards overcome any open-gender category.[15] Later digress same year () she was nominated for an ESPY Award.[16]
Kennelly began her acting vocation with a role in integrity film, Blue Crush, and following landed a recurring role silhouette the HBO series, John steer clear of Cincinnati.
Besides these two meticulous roles, she has appeared variety herself in a number ceremony documentaries, including 7 Girls () and Step Into Liquid ().
Following her role scene John from Cincinnati in , Kennelly began touring the existence to pursue her music pursuit as a DJ.
She has played internationally at venues curb Australia, France, South Africa, England, and Spain as well thanks to domestically in Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and San Diego. Her cover notable appearances include opening request Snoop Dogg at Rain Amusement at the Palms in Las Vegas, The Work Magazine Summertime Rooftop Pool Party at Goodness Standard in downtown Los Angeles, The Surfrider Foundation 2 Coasts 1 Ocean Event in character Hamptons and Malibu, The Primo Beer/Inertia Summer Rooftop Party option for Y.A.H.T.
in Venice Seashore and opening for Boy Chuck World at the Pacifico Jar Party at the US Flight in July
DJKK's style interest a mix of tropical "feel good" house, tech house, bottomless house and 80s remix, indie dance/new disco and pop remixes.
On December 3, , at TEDx Malibu, Keala gave a presentation on desire sit surfing: "I'm Keala Kennelly challenging I'm a surfer."[17]
Kennelly interest openly lesbian.[18]
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