User:Raquel Heckert Henning

Raquel Pereira Heckert Henning, (born March 12, 1993) is a water women; professional surfer and big wave surfer competitor; life style model and journalist student. Born and raised in Niterói city, Rio de Janeiro. Now, she lives most of the year on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, USA.

Personal life

Raquel started to surf when she was 12 years old, before that she used to go to the beach with her dad and play around with a bodyboard. But one day Raquel was watching people surfing, and she was wondering how the surfers could do turns and not fall from their boards. She was so intrigued by how they synchronized perfectly with the wave, that the curiosity of the challenged moved her to learn how to surf. Her dad, Marco Andre, got a used, cheap board for children's day and she went to this surf school called Niteroi Surf. The beach she learned how to surf is Itaipu, located in Niterói city. She learned how to surf in a channel that is where a lake connects to the ocean and makes this little wave. Itaipu is by Itacoatiara beach, one of the heaviest big waves breaks in Brazil. In Itacoatiara beach, that afterwords Raquel developed her love for barrels and big waves.

Surfing accomplishments

The was the youngest woman ever invited for the Eddie Aikau 2019-2022 as an 2nd alternate.

WSL nominee/ finalist for Women’s best performance and biggest wave of 2018 and 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

4x times finalist for the WSL Big Wave Awards for the categories of Biggest Wave and Best female perfomance of the year

1st Place of the Big wave Awards Brazil 2019 - Extreme Boardriders Club

1st Place, Rookie of the Year Brazil 2018- Extreme Boardriders Club

2nd Place at Itacoatiara Big Wave 2019- First Big Wave Contest for women in Brazil.

2nd Place of the Wave of the Year Brazil 2022- First Woman to get barrel at Shock

Competitor of the WSL Vans triple Crown online 2021-22/ Hanking: 10th place

Red Bull Magnitude Finalist 2021-22

3rd place at the Nelscott Reef Expression Session in Oregon 2019

Competitor of the WSL Pe’ahi Challenge 2018 and 2019, invite of 2020-21

Semi Finalist of the first and last Red Bull barrels Contest in Mexico, by Coco Nogales 2017

4th place at Puerto Escondido Cup 2018, by Monster - First Women's Big Wave Contest in Mexico.

4th place at the Puerto Escondido cup, presented by Corona 2019

Participant of the Big Wave Expression Session for women at an Outer Reef (North Shore, Oahu) 2016.

4th place at the Pipeline Woman's Pro longboard

Accomplishments as a grom

Campeonato na Praia da Joaquina/ 2015- Segundo Lugar

Campeonato Brasileiro Universitário/ 2013 - Quarto Lugar

Primeiro Lugar (Circuito de Surf Ricardo Tatuí 20/10/2007)

Maçambaba

Circuito Municipal de Surf de Cabo Frio - Quarto Lugar

Circuito ASN-2011- Terceiro Lugar

Circuito Municipal de Surf, em Cabo Frio, Amador- Segundo Lugar

Ranking 2012- ASN (Associação de Surf Niteroiense)- Terceiro Lugar

ASN- Associação de Surf Niteroiense 2012- Segundo Lugar

ASN-Associação de Surf Niteroiense, Terceira Etapa 2009- Terceiro Lugar

ASN- Associação de Surf Niteroiense, Primeira Etapa 2011- Terceiro  Lugar

ASN- Associação de Surf Niteroiense, Terceira Etapa 2011- Segundo Lugar

Circuito Long Board, (ASAC), 2011, em Arraial do Cabo- Terceiro Lugar

ASN- Associação de Surf Niteroiense, terceira etapa 2012- Quarto Lugar

ASN- Associação de Surf Niteroiense, segunda etapa 2011- Terceiro Lugar

Cyclone- Barra da Tijuca 2012- Terceiro Lugar

ASRT- Surf 2009- Terceiro Lugar

Surf Águas de Niterói- Terceiro Lugar

ASN- Associação de Surf Niteroiense, Segundo lugar.

MEDIA

Surfline ambassador: 2021

WSL Rising Tides Project participant, wich aims to empower women's surfing in the world

Participated of CEWS, the female committee that fights for the equality of men and women in surfing;

- Television

Woman Surfing Big Waves at Globo Esporte, Brazilian Tv.

American TV Show’s include: Chasing Monsters, at insight Tv Channel; and  Your Wings Will Grow;

Participant in many episodes of the Brazilian TV Show Canal Off (extreme sports channel) : Mulheres do Mar; Manual de Ondas Grandes; Alerta de ondas gigantes; novo Programa do Lucas Chumbo; Meninas e gromets; Kombi Jussara pelo Brasil; Diario das ilhas; de volta em Oahu de bike com Felipe Cesarano and other Brazillian programs

Intereviewed several times for Hawaiian News Now, to talk about competition and professional surf life

Coming Soon: Brazilian Documentary about the History of Women’s surfing (In Production); The Road to Eddie

- Media press

Surf Girl Magazine, two pages

Free Surf Mag, one page.

Surfer Girl Mag, two pages.

Surfar Maggazine, two pages.

Three article series on Magic Seaweed in search for barrels in Mexico coast, 2021 by Matt

Indicated by Red Bull as one of the 10 Free Surfers to be followed on Instagram

New York Times article about Female Big Wave surfing and equality in the sport

Posts on the WSL official Instagram about my big wave surfing performance

Interviews: Red Bull profile interview, Stab, Carve Mag, The blues blog, The inertia, Surfline, Surf Channel, Surf Girl Magazine, Fansided etc

Cover of " A Tribuna" journal, first woman to make a barrel at Shock slab

Columnist for a couple years of the brazilian surf website ~" Rico Surf"

Front page of the website Magicseaweed on 03/28/2019; an article In Portrait: The Underground Heroes of Hawaii`s North Shore;

Brazilian website subjects: Rico Surf, Waves, Surf Guru, Jornal O Globo, Fluminense, Woohoo, Alma Surf; Livre Surf; Surf Room; Tudo pelo Surfe; Surf na Rede; Onda Gringa; Gazeta Online; Revista TRIP

O Globo and Fluminense Brazilian Newspaper

Interview for the brazlian Tv channel, SBT for  Surf Land Tv program and Woohoo; Globo.

Category:Surf culture Category:Surfing Category:Big wave surfers Category:Water woman Category:Professional surfer