UPCOMING: Cascais Women's Pro

The Cascais Women's Pro is the 8th stop of the Women's World Championship Tour. Hosted in Carcavelos, one of the best surf spots in Portugal, the event will kick off on September, 27.

Courtney Conlogue (currently no. 2 on the WCT ranking) is the girl to keep an eye on for this event. As the defending Cascais Pro champion for 2 years in a row and having a great season finishing 1st on 2 WCT Events, Conlogue is in the race for the Title.

Courtney Crushes Semifinal with Tube for 9.33 by World Surf League

Also, in the race for the Title and sitting at no.1 on the ranking is Sally Fitzgibbons. Her best result in the Cascais Pro was in 2014 finishing 2nd to Stephanie Gilmore. 

Sally Fitzgibbons Soars Ahead with Big Score by World Surf League

Here are the Round 1 Match-Ups:

Heat 1: Sage Erickson (USA) x Lakey Peterson (USA) x Pauline Ado (FRA)
Heat 2: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) x Carissa Moore (HAW) x Malia Manuel (HAW)
Heat 3: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) x Coco Ho (HAW) x Teresa Bonvalot (POR)
Heat 4: Courtney Conlogue (USA) x Keely Andrew (AUS) x Bronte Macaulay (AUS)
Heat 5: Tyler Wright (AUS) x Tatiana Western-Webb (HAW) x Laura Enever (AUS)
Heat 6: Johanne Defay (FRA) x Nikki Van Dijk (AUS) x Silvana Lima (BRA)

Bethany Hamilton x KS Surf Ranch

Bethany Hamilton visited Kelly Slater's Surf Ranch with her husband Adam and their son Tobias to experience surfing a man made wave. 

Being a goofy footer, she wanted to work on her backside barrel riding and one of the perks of surfing at the Surf Ranch is that you can get as many backside barrels as you want! 

Her hability to adapt to any wave blows everyone away and her surf stoke is so contagious! See for yourself:

Family Ranch from Kelly Slater Wave Co on Vimeo.