Cori Schumacher
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Cori Schumacher is an international, professional surfer
from Cardiff
, California
.
Schumacher was born April 23, 1977 in Huntington Beach, California, to Craig Allen Schumacher and Jeannette Lorrainne Michaud (AKA Jeannette Prince). Both her parents were avid surfers. Her mother surfed pregnant with her until she was a month due. Cori has one sister, Chelsea Marie Schumacher, born in 1978.
The family picked up and moved from Huntington Beach to San Diego when Schumacher was 3 years old. They made Ocean Beach their home for several years. When Schumacher was 5 years old, her parents purchased a blue and yellow softboard for her. They took her down to Dog Beach in Ocean Beach where she rode her first waves.
Donald Takayama met Schumacher when she was around the age of 8. He gave her the first board he shaped for Joel Tudor
and has shaped boards for her ever since. Takayama and Schumacher do not have a sponsorship relationship, rather, their relationship is based around the traditional Hawaiian conception of hanai
. Schumacher refuses sponsorship in general, intentionally bucking a trend entrenched in her sport in order to have the freedom to speak her mind on issues considered anathema to speak out about in surfing. She has written various articles addressing these issues that have been published in The Inertia and The Guardian
.
Schumacher has had a varied competitive career that began when she was 8 years old. Since then, she has won multiple national and international amateur shortboarding titles. She surfed as the #1 US female shortboarder on the 1994 and 1996 US Team for the ISA
Jr. Championships. Her most notable international shortboard title was winner of the 1995 Pan-American Championships. But Schumacher is best known for her efforts in women’s longboarding. She is a three-time Women’s World Longboard Champion (2000, 2001, 2010), Women’s Longboard Pipeline
Pro Champion (2009) and two-time ASP
North American Champion (2008, 2009). From late 2001 to 2008, Schumacher went on sabbatical from competition. She returned in 2008 to win the Linda Benson Roxy Jam at Cardiff, California.
In 2005, when Linda Benson took over the Women’s World Longboard Championships from Hank Raymond (who ran the championships from 1999-2004), Schumacher participated with a small group of advisors that supported Benson as she organized the 2005 Women’s World Longboard Championships at Ocean Beach.
Schumacher can be found in such films as: The Road, Multiple Personalities, Sol Sirens and Ten Year’s of Women’s Longboarding.
Schumacher supports organizations such as the Rell Sunn Education Fund, Women For Women International and Surf For Life, a non-profit organization that seeks to connect surfers and non-surfers alike with community service activities that will affect change at an international level. She is also an advocate for various issues including gender disparity, heterosexism
and homophobia in sport.
Most recently, Schumacher made headlines by choosing to boycott the 2011 ASP Women's World Longboarding Tour, because she takes issue with holding an event in Hainan Island, China.
Surfing
Surfing' is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore...
from Cardiff
Cardiff
Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
.
Schumacher was born April 23, 1977 in Huntington Beach, California, to Craig Allen Schumacher and Jeannette Lorrainne Michaud (AKA Jeannette Prince). Both her parents were avid surfers. Her mother surfed pregnant with her until she was a month due. Cori has one sister, Chelsea Marie Schumacher, born in 1978.
The family picked up and moved from Huntington Beach to San Diego when Schumacher was 3 years old. They made Ocean Beach their home for several years. When Schumacher was 5 years old, her parents purchased a blue and yellow softboard for her. They took her down to Dog Beach in Ocean Beach where she rode her first waves.
Donald Takayama met Schumacher when she was around the age of 8. He gave her the first board he shaped for Joel Tudor
Joel Tudor
Joel Tudor is a surfer, primarily known for longboarding, and competitive grappler from San Diego, California.-Early life:His father, Joe, who ignored the shortboard revolution himself and never abandoned his longboard, first put his Joel on a surfboard during a family trip to Puerto Vallarta...
and has shaped boards for her ever since. Takayama and Schumacher do not have a sponsorship relationship, rather, their relationship is based around the traditional Hawaiian conception of hanai
Hanai
*Hanai is a Japanese surname.*Hanai can be an alternate spelling of an Iranian surname.Japanese people with the surname Hanai :*Haruki Hanai*Kiyoaki Hanai*Meisa Hanai*Miri Hanaiothers*Saeed Hanai...
. Schumacher refuses sponsorship in general, intentionally bucking a trend entrenched in her sport in order to have the freedom to speak her mind on issues considered anathema to speak out about in surfing. She has written various articles addressing these issues that have been published in The Inertia and The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
.
Schumacher has had a varied competitive career that began when she was 8 years old. Since then, she has won multiple national and international amateur shortboarding titles. She surfed as the #1 US female shortboarder on the 1994 and 1996 US Team for the ISA
International Surfing Association
The International Surfing Association is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the world governing authority for surfing and all its waveriding disciplines, including bodyboard, kneeboard, longboard, tandem, skimboard and bodysurf...
Jr. Championships. Her most notable international shortboard title was winner of the 1995 Pan-American Championships. But Schumacher is best known for her efforts in women’s longboarding. She is a three-time Women’s World Longboard Champion (2000, 2001, 2010), Women’s Longboard Pipeline
Pipeline
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Pro Champion (2009) and two-time ASP
Association of Surfing Professionals
The Association of Surfing Professionals is the governing body for professional surfers and is dedicated to showcasing the world’s best talent in a variety of progressive formats.- Predecessors to the ASP :...
North American Champion (2008, 2009). From late 2001 to 2008, Schumacher went on sabbatical from competition. She returned in 2008 to win the Linda Benson Roxy Jam at Cardiff, California.
In 2005, when Linda Benson took over the Women’s World Longboard Championships from Hank Raymond (who ran the championships from 1999-2004), Schumacher participated with a small group of advisors that supported Benson as she organized the 2005 Women’s World Longboard Championships at Ocean Beach.
Schumacher can be found in such films as: The Road, Multiple Personalities, Sol Sirens and Ten Year’s of Women’s Longboarding.
Schumacher supports organizations such as the Rell Sunn Education Fund, Women For Women International and Surf For Life, a non-profit organization that seeks to connect surfers and non-surfers alike with community service activities that will affect change at an international level. She is also an advocate for various issues including gender disparity, heterosexism
Heterosexism
Heterosexism is a system of attitudes, bias, and discrimination in favor of opposite-sex sexuality and relationships. It can include the presumption that everyone is heterosexual or that opposite-sex attractions and relationships are the only norm and therefore superior...
and homophobia in sport.
Most recently, Schumacher made headlines by choosing to boycott the 2011 ASP Women's World Longboarding Tour, because she takes issue with holding an event in Hainan Island, China.
External links
- corischumacher.com
- GaySurfers.net
- Rell Sunn Education Fund
- Women For Women International
- Surf For Life
- Interview on Liquid Salt Magazine
- For Female Surfer, Challenges Out of the Water- NY Times
- The Inertia
- Women's World Longboard Champion Cori Schumacher Boycotts 2011 ASP Tour- The Inertia
- Why I'm Boycotting- The Inertia
- Proliferating Stereotypes for Profit- The Inertia
- The Guardian
- Surfers also must be sport ambassadors- The Guardian
- The menace of surfing's stereotypes- The Guardian
- LGBT Rights in Surfing- The Guardian
- Backbone In A Tilted World- JettyGirl.com