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Diva Cup 2025: Women's surf competition shreds the Central Coast · Stories from Mustang News on KCPR

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  Speaker 1: At the base of the kyakhost pure, the surf is glassy,
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  Speaker 1: the breeze is offshore, and the stoke is unmistakable. It's
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  Speaker 1: Diva Cup twenty twenty five, the all women's surf invitational
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  Speaker 1: that took place on November twenty second.
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  Speaker 2: Celebrate the feminin. We love you men, women, non binary boots.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone have a place here at the Evacup.
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  Speaker 1: The sets rolling in with a perfect size, playful enough
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  Speaker 1: for groms, but powerful enough to let long borders and
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  Speaker 1: loggers carve their lines. From Los Angeles, it's surfer Lulu
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  Speaker 1: Erkaneff's second time competing in the Diva Cup.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you could ask for a more perfect day.
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  Speaker 3: It's offshore, perfect size, there's good size sets. So the
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  Speaker 3: girls are sending it today.
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  Speaker 1: And this isn't just a contest, it's community, a place
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  Speaker 1: where mentorship is woven into every heat.
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  Speaker 3: There are so many like friendly faces that you get
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  Speaker 3: to see from all over the coast, and I love
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  Speaker 3: the camaraderie from like a women led event.
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  Speaker 1: Emerging from the water after a heat, Lulu stands with
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  Speaker 1: cow poly graduate student May Griffith.
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  Speaker 3: Well here for the same reason, supporting each other. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: is so happy to just support each.
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  Speaker 1: Other in the water.
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  Speaker 3: People are cheering for every wave, and.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that is not something that you see
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  Speaker 2: in other events.
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  Speaker 1: The Diva Cup is the premier event of the Femme
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  Speaker 1: Futures Foundation, a nonprofit focused on women's health and access
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  Speaker 1: to menstrual products. Since it's launched, the competition has donated
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  Speaker 1: more than twenty five thousand tampons to women's in need.
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  Speaker 4: In Yellow Biana and feel we have.
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  Speaker 1: Reaf and heard where we have Even the Heat list
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  Speaker 1: gets flipped on its head with the fan favorite Men
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  Speaker 1: in Heat, a playful event that turns traditional competition into
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  Speaker 1: a fashion yeah comeback. Joanna Edmondson is the visual director
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  Speaker 1: of Diva Cup in one of the founding members that
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  Speaker 1: help bring Diva Cup to life. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: important because there's not really anything like it. Since it's founder,
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  Speaker 1: it has grown so much.
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  Speaker 2: It is like so much Beiger than it was the
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  Speaker 2: last two years.
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  Speaker 1: And the growth is visible. Kids are paddling out beside
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  Speaker 1: pros cow poly first years are watching their first competition
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  Speaker 1: from the sand, and local legends are even cheering on
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  Speaker 1: the next generation.
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  Speaker 3: Every time I go surfing, I am surrounded by all
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  Speaker 3: of the men. Seeing everyone come together and watching all
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  Speaker 3: these awesome women surf. It's really fun.
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  Speaker 4: When like it's a bunch of all girls, it's like
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  Speaker 4: so much more inclusive, I think, and like it really
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  Speaker 4: encourages more people to get into surfing too.
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  Speaker 1: I think throughout the day dogs were napping beside boards
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  Speaker 1: and on the peerp and we lean over the railing.
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  Speaker 2: Do you Have a Cuff?
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  Speaker 4: Is the most fun event on the Central Coast ever.
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  Speaker 1: It was a day for the divas and for the future.
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  Speaker 1: They're building wave by wave for Mustang News on KCPR,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Anica Edwards.