Bio From: http://mpora.com/pros/claire-bevilacqua.html
Claire Bevilacqua was born in Perth, Australia on January 29, 1983 to an Australian mother and Italian father. She started surfing in Australia when she was 14 years old, after finding a discarded surfboard in her neighbour's rubbish bin and transferring her skateboard and boogie board skills to the big waves that are a hallmark of surfing in Western Australia.Her first taste of competition was at local surf club and she progressed quickly to state and national competitions before capturing the Australian professional women's junior title in 2003. That breakthrough led to her joining the World Championship Tour (WCT) sponsored by the Association of Surfing Professionals, professional surfing's governing body, in 2005. She spent the next four years competing on the WCT, appearing in major events around the world and consistently maintaining a rating in the top ten.
Despite that success, Bevilacqua grew disenchanted with the Women's World Tour after it eliminated events in Fiji and Tahiti that had been among her favourites, leaving the women's tour to compete in out-of-the-way locations that offered small waves that did not suit Bevilacqua's freewheeling, aggressive style. She spent some time focused on freestyle events, but returned to the WCT in the end, again standing in the top ten in the world in 2010. She has also found some premium sponsors along the way, including Volcom, Nixon, JC, Gravis, Electric and Squid Grip.
