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Guns-out blonde goofyfooter from Hanalei, Kauai; world-ranked #4 in 2002, with an untouchable reputation as the sport's most fearless female tuberider; described by 

Kennelly was born (1978) in Hanalei, raised in a geodesic dome made by her two surfing parents, and got her first board at age five. She was a force as an amateur competitor; in the girls' division of the United States Surfing Championships she finished third in 1992, second in 1993, and fourth in 1994, and also placed third in the 1994 World Championships.

Kennelly's blunt, hard-charging style wasn't a natural fit within the regulated confines of the world pro tour, but she nonetheless became one of the circuit's most compelling figures, launching airs where other women kicked out, and riding deep inside the tube at places like Pipeline and Teahupoo. She won her first major world tour event in 2000 at Teahupoo; the following year she won the Op Pro/Mentawais specialty event, and in 2002 she again won at Teahupoo.

After Kennelly left the world tour at the end of 2006, her reputation as a big-wave charger exploded: she was the first female to tow-surf Teahupoo, she paddle-surfed huge Puerto Escondido, and when a 2011 Teahupoo wipeout flayed opened the right side of her face up she arched an eyebrow and posed for some pre-medical-treatment photos that turned the stomaches of even the gnarliest male big-wave hellmen.

Breaking rank from the girlish "surfette" look that all but defined women's surfing in the '90s and early '00s, Kennelly was a leather-clad and tongue-studded nightclubber who moonlighted as a DJ and often looked, as surf journalist Alison Berkley put it, like "a sinister Disney cartoon character." In a 2002 

 magazine profile covered-blurbed as "The Naked Truth," Kennelly seemed to come out as either gay or bisexual, saying that "It took a woman to finally make a woman out of me," but as of early 2013 she hadn't talked publically about her sexuality since then.

Kennelly appeared in more than a dozen surf videos, including 

 (2001). She also played herself in Universal Pictures' 

 (2002), and was a surf-shop worker in HBO's short-lived TV series 

Kennelly, Keala

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