{"id":155207,"date":"2022-02-07T16:52:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T02:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=155207"},"modified":"2024-03-15T22:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T08:08:19","slug":"moana-jones-wong-makes-surfing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/07\/moana-jones-wong-makes-surfing-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Moana Jones Wong makes surfing history"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_11407\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wnEz7SPFNlc?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Finals Day Highlights | Jones Wong Sets A New Standard At Pipeline\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/westoahu.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a> graduate and professional surfer <strong>Moanalani Jones Wong<\/strong> won the first-ever women\u2019s Billabong Pro Pipeline in February at North Shore\u2019s legendary Banzai Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The Billabong Pro Pipeline is the kickoff event of the World Surf League 2022 Championship Tour season and, for the first time, every stop will feature both women and men.<\/p>\n<p>The Pipeline win isn\u2019t the first time that Jones Wong has made history.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_140686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140686\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/west-oahu-jones-wong-surfing-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"U H W O student surfing\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-140686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/west-oahu-jones-wong-surfing-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/west-oahu-jones-wong-surfing-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/west-oahu-jones-wong-surfing.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-140686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moanalani Jones Wong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jones Wong became the first graduate of <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>  West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/westoahu.hawaii.edu\/academics\/degrees\/applied-science\/\">bachelor of applied science\u2013Hawaiian and Indigenous health and healing<\/a> (<abbr>HIHH<\/abbr>) program when she graduated in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>HIHH<\/abbr> concentration, <a href=\"https:\/\/westoahu.hawaii.edu\/kaloinews\/?p=10600\">introduced in fall 2019<\/a>, strives to create a pathway for the dissemination of traditional healing knowledge and skill that will serve as a model for other Indigenous groups.<\/p>\n<p>As part of her graduation requirement, Jones Wong presented a senior project titled, &ldquo;Surfing: More Than a Sport.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/04\/pro-surfer-uhwo-degree\/\">Pro surfer makes waves, history with <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> degree<\/a>, May 4, 2021<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I feel so connected to my culture, my ancestors and the ocean when I am out there,&rdquo; said Jones Wong, who is part Hawaiian. &ldquo;Surfing gave me my identity. It empowered me. In my hardest times I found peace in the ocean.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It was a topic she was happy to present on, because many don\u2019t realize how significant surfing is to Native Hawaiians.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is much more than a sport to us,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>At the Billabong Pro Pipeline, Jones Wong defeated five-time World Champion and Olympic gold medallist Carissa Moore. World Champion and surf icon Kelly Slater won the men\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Nothing beats pulling into a big barrel at Pipeline,&rdquo; Jones Wong told Ka Puna O <span aria-label=\"Kaloi\">Kalo&#699;i<\/span> in 2021. &ldquo;I feel so connected, so happy and so alive. It\u2019s a feeling that I can\u2019t describe. Nothing beats it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/westoahu.hawaii.edu\/kaloinews\/?p=16463\">Read more in <em>Ka Puna O <span aria-label=\"Kaloi\">Kalo&#699;i<\/span><\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<em>By Zenaida Serrano Arvman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>  West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> alumna wins first women\u2019s Billabong Pro Pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[679,1459,59,56,1626],"class_list":["post-155207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-ka-puna-o-kaloi","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155216,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155207\/revisions\/155216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}