Lisa Andersen is clearing out the garage. Photo: Lisa Andersen//Instagram
Lisa Andersen is a living legend. In the world of surfing, she’s up there with Kelly Slater, Layne Beachley, Tom Carroll, Tom Curren, and many more. She’s got four world titles and she played a starring role in the creation of what surfing looks like today. And now, she’s selling a large part of her surfboard collection, mostly, it seems, because of the stickers (more on that in a minute).
Andersen burst onto the scene with a bang. In 1986, when she racked up over 30 National Scholastic Surfing Association trophies in under a year, it became glaringly obvious that Andersen was going places. In her first year on the then-ASP, she was named Rookie of the Year. Sports Illustrated for Women named her as one of the 100 “Greatest Sportswomen of the Century.” She’s in both the Surfer’s Hall of Fame and the Surfing Walk of Fame.
In 1995, smack dab in the middle of her most dominant competitive years, Andersen was the first woman to get the cover of SURFER magazine. That magazine, often referred to as “the Bible of the Sport,” named her one of the “25 Most Influential Surfers of all Time.” All that is to say that if anyone’s a living legend, it’s Andersen. That’s just a small taste of the accolades she’s accumulated over the course of her career, and as I said, surfing wouldn’t be what it is today without her.
She’s the original Roxy girl. Randy Hild, a marketing director at Quiksilver in Andersen’s heyday, saw how other surfers reacted to her prowess. He went to the higher-ups at the iconic brand and with her in mind as the face, convinced them to start Roxy.
“Lisa Andersen is a legend and the inspiration for the Roxy brand,” reads her Roxy profile. “Her feminine style and athleticism laid the foundation for modern women’s surfing in the 1990s, and she’s still carrying the torch forward as our worldwide ambassador.”
Sadly, though, Andersen and Roxy recently parted ways, which she subtly confirmed in an Instagram post that included removing a Roxy sticker. Over the course of the years, Andersen amassed quite the collection of surfboards and surf-related things. And a whole lot of it is for sale.
“Attention!!” Andersen wrote on Instagram. “Surfboard collectors of the world. A big part of my board collection is available for purchase. (Preferably the whole collection, not single boards). DM if interested.”
It’s likely there will be a whole lot of interest, so hit her up quick if you’re in the market to own a piece of surf history.
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