When Siobahn McAuliffe started skimboarding in Ship Bottom 10 years ago, there weren’t any girls down at the water’s edge. She was 14. The sport was so small that she basically knew everyone with a skimboard – and they were all guys.

In actuality, McAuliffe started skimming at age 9, playing around on little wooden toy boards.”I remember that we would be down there with the families and they would say ‘Let’s go get ice cream,’ or ‘We’re going up to eat lunch,’ and I would just stay at the water…