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Riding the Wave

Molly Picklum was just three when her family hoisted her up onto a surfboard, paddled her out into the ocean and stood her up at the front of the nose. It was the toddler's first wave. And it'd be the start of a ride bigger than she could've imagined.

Born in Gosford on the NSW Central Coast, Molly is a rising star of surfing. In December, the 20-year-old won the Vans Pipe Masters in Hawaii's O‘ahu – the first non-Hawaiian woman to do so – and says it was one of

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