Leilani McGonagle has already won virtually every other surfing award there is in the country, so it was only a matter of time before the 16-year-old surf phenom was crowned Costa Rica’s national ...
It's been a minute since the WSL brought a contest down to Puerto Rico, more like a decade, but the La Marginal Surfing Pro just changed all that. Topping the podium was California's Dimitri Poulos ...
OCEANSIDE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — A few Southern California surfers pushed through to Finals Day of the Super Girl Surf Pro, but the cape ultimately went to Costa Rica’s Leilani McGonagle. Defeating ...
She turned 17 years old just last week, but Costa Rican surf star Leilani McGonagle has already won a lifetime’s worth of medals. The Pavones native celebrated her birthday with a win at a World Surf ...
Leilani McGonagle, the Costa Rican surfing star from the Southern Zone community of Pavones, had her sights set high. She went into her fourth consecutive final at a global Juniors championship this ...
Costa Rican surfing star Leilani McGonagle gave the country its first medal at the 2017 ISA World Surfing Games, in Biarritz, France on Monday. The Pavones surfer won a bronze medal and scored a 8.4, ...
In a week of stunning surfing by Costa Rica’s junior national surf team in Portugal’s São Miguel Island in the Azores, it was the work of two females who helped the team make history with a seventh ...
Costa Rica’s very best surfers will be back to defend their world title next month in their home waters. The Costa Rica Surf Federation announced its star-studded roster Wednesday ahead of the World ...
The Costa Rican surfer Leilani McGonagle made her country proud this past weekend by clinching an impressive third place finish at the 2023 US Open surfing competition in Huntington Beach, California.
Picture this: you’re a kid, 21 years young. You have the biggest day of your life tomorrow; your entire family, friends, and country are counting on you. The whole world is watching. One wrong move, ...
A historic 2015 for Costa Rican riders put the tiny Central American country on the map of world surf yet again. With their first ever International Surfing Association (ISA) World Games title and a ...