KELLY SLATER

CHEYENNE ALEXANDER
 EARLY YEARS

• Slater grew up in Cocoa Beach, Florida,

where he still lives. He is the son of Judy
Moriarity and Stephen Slater. He has two
brothers, Sean and Stephen, and a daughter,
Taylor, born in 1996.

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• The son of a bait--store proprietor, Slater

grew up near the water, and he began surfing
at age five. By age 10 he was winning age-
division events up and down the Atlantic
coast, and in 1984 he won his first age-
division United States championship title.

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• After turning professional in 1990, Slater

struggled during his first two years on the
professional tour, finishing 90th and 43rd in the
world rankings those years. In 1992 he secured
podium finishes in three of his first five events
before winning his first professional tour event,
the Rip Curl Pro, in France. His win in that year's
prestigious Pipeline Masters in Hawaii secured his
first world title

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 HIGH SCHOOL
CAREER
HE NOT ONLY EXCELLED IN SPORTS, BUT
ACADEMICS AS WELL, GRADUATING HIGH
SCHOOL WITH A 4.0 AVERAGE.

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COLLEGE

• He did not attend because by the

age of 20 he became the youngest
surfing world champion ever.
 OLYMPICS

• He missed the Tokyo Olympics as John John

Florence takes final US spot. Eleven-time
world champion Kelly Slater failed to qualify
for the US Olympic surfing team at the
Billabong Pipe Masters

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RETIREMENT LIFE

• Kelly Slater is still active and hasn’t

retired yet.
IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORTS

• Slater, having grown up in Florida, was

never truly comfortable in waves of
consequence until a trip to Oahu in 1987.
A giant northwest swell was pounding
the coast, closing out breaks from
Waimea to Sunset. He drove to Makaha,
where he was greeted with 40' (Hawaiian
scale) waves breaking across the bay.
 IMPORTANT
ACHIEVEMENTS IN SOCIETY

• Has a new video game in his likeness, Kelly

Slater's Pro Surfer
• -The 30-minute Quicksilver promotional
video, Kelly Slater in Black and White
• -The Biography video, Tom Curren/Kelly
Slater

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