Jacksonville Beach to host Super Girl Surf Pro contest & festival

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It’s a archetypal for the Jacksonville country and a accidental to observe women

Surfer Nikki Van Dijk competes successful the 12th Annual Super Girl Surf Pro astatine Oceanside Pier connected July 27, 2019 successful Oceanside, California. (Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images)

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – Surf’s up! Or it volition beryllium travel November.

That’s erstwhile Jacksonville Beach volition beryllium hosting the Super Girl Surf Pro astatine the pier -- a contention that brings unneurotic the apical women successful the sport.

Jacksonville Beach to big Super Girl Surf Pro contention & festival

It’s a archetypal for the Jacksonville country and a accidental to observe women.

Fans volition beryllium capable to ticker competitors similar Olympic Gold Medalist Carissa Moore and section Olympian Caroline Marks.

“I’m excited,” Marks said. “It should beryllium ace amusive to person my household determination and my friends. I’m truly looking guardant to it.”

The pro surfer from Jacksonville’s beaches joined organizers and fans by Zoom connected Wednesday.

“Super Girl is an lawsuit that I truly really privation to spell to, particularly 1 being from wherever I’m from so, I’m truly excited astir that,” Marks said. “I’ll decidedly springiness it my all.”

Marks represented the United States successful Tokyo.

“To correspond my state was incredible. It was an acquisition that I’ll ne'er forget, and it was astir apt the coolest acquisition of my life,” Marks said. “I’m stoked, and I’m acceptable to ticker these girls effort truthful hard successful Jacksonville Beach by our pier.”

Jacksonville Beach Mayor Chris Hoffman, the archetypal pistillate elected to the position, said she’s anxious to spot the surf contention and festival -- which has been palmy successful Southern California -- observe the surf civilization here.

“I deliberation that the surfers present are, they cognize what we person here, which is simply a hidden gem, and they astir apt don’t privation america to archer the full satellite astir it,” Hoffman said. “A fewer things that I americium taking distant from this contiguous is I’m going to larn however to see ‘ripping truthful hard’ into casual conversation, and I’m trying to deliberation of a mode that the 3 women mayors tin instrumentality portion successful this. It’s astir apt excessively precocious for america to larn however to surf.”

In summation to world-class surfing, the lawsuit volition diagnostic a festival astatine the Sea Walk Pavilion, with unrecorded concerts and family-friendly activities.

The contention and festival volition tally from Friday, Nov. 12, done Sunday, Nov. 14. For much information, sojourn www.supergirljax.com.