Girls need more physical role models

By Michelle Bridges
Updated August 23 2014 - 10:09am, first published August 17 2014 - 3:00am
Five times ASP Womens World Champion Stephanie Gilmore of Australia won the Roxy Pro Gold Coast at Snapper Rocks on March 11, 2014. Photo: Kelly Cestari
Five times ASP Womens World Champion Stephanie Gilmore of Australia won the Roxy Pro Gold Coast at Snapper Rocks on March 11, 2014. Photo: Kelly Cestari

At school I played soccer. It had to be with the boys, because us girls didn't have our own team (women's soccer wasn't big in the '80s). As the only girl in the team, I felt pretty good about doing it for the sisterhood and taking it to those smelly boys.

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