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Black Girls Surf Camp 2022
Black Girls Surf 2022 U.S. Tour will return to Watsonville, CA this week. BGS has been invited to several U.S. cities this summer. We are honored to share the stoke at home this year. Our surf camps are specialty fitness training…
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Meet Senegal’s First Female Professional Surfer, Who’s Inspiring Other Women To Ride The Waves
Coming from the Lebou community, Khadjou Sambe grew up in Dakar, and despite having direct access to the Atlantic and the country’s surf spots, she has never seen a single black woman surfing. Today, as Senegal’s first female professional…
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Hurley Announces Long-Term Partnership with Black Girls Surf
Hurley is proud to announce its new multi-year global partnership with Black Girls Surf, a Performance Training Program and organization that supports girls & women of color whose dreams and career goals are to compete in professional surfing. With locations in…
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Khadjou Sambe on Becoming Senegal’s First Professional Female Surfer
By the age of 13, Khadjou Sambe had fallen in love with surfing. But surfing is a male-dominated sport in her home country of Senegal, and it’s rare to find women riding the waves. It’s even rarer to see women of…
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This Organization Is Training Black Girls to Become Pro Surfers, 1 Wave at a Time
Rhonda Harper has been in Senegal since January. It was meant to be a short trip for Harper, the founder of Black Girls Surf, to do some filming with Khadjou Sambe, a Senegalese surfer whom she’s training for the Olympics…
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Senegal’s first female pro surfer draws others in her wake
DAKAR – Growing up in the coastal capital of Dakar, Khadjou Sambe never saw a Black woman surfing the Atlantic swells. As Senegal’s first female professional surfer, Sambe is now inspiring the next generation to defy cultural norms and take…
