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Encinitas: Our History and People

Encinitas: Our History and People By the Encinitas Historical Society Authors Carolyn Roy Cope, Jim Filanc and Garth Murphy Cover painting by artist Kevin Anderson Published by HPN Books and Ledge Media ©2021 Visit www.ledgemedia.net/encinitas to order printed copies And visit www.HPNBooks.com for info on how to publish your own book as a fundraiser for your community

Encinitas: Our History and People
By the Encinitas Historical Society
Authors Carolyn Roy Cope, Jim Filanc and Garth Murphy
Cover painting by artist Kevin Anderson
Published by HPN Books and Ledge Media ©2021

Visit www.ledgemedia.net/encinitas to order printed copies

And visit www.HPNBooks.com for info on how to publish your own book as a fundraiser for your community

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L I N D A<br />

B E N S O N<br />

The life of the surfer girl who grew up on<br />

Dewitt Street in <strong>Encinitas</strong>, Linda Benson,<br />

has been remarkable. In 1959 at age 15,<br />

Linda was not only the first woman to win<br />

the first national surfing contest held in the<br />

US at the West Coast Championships in<br />

Huntington Beach, but is also credited to be<br />

the first woman to ride the legendary big<br />

waves of Waimea Bay. That same year she<br />

became the youngest contestant ever, to<br />

enter the International Surfing Contest at<br />

Makaha, which she won.<br />

Linda continued competing for 10 years<br />

winning the women’s 1960 <strong>and</strong> 1961 West<br />

Coast Championships <strong>and</strong> the women’s<br />

1964 <strong>and</strong> 1968 US Surfing Championships.<br />

Winning over twenty first-place surfing<br />

titles from 1959 to 1969, Linda was discovered<br />

by Hollywood <strong>and</strong> acted as Annette Funicello’s<br />

C h a p t e r 6 F 7 1

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