Canada's Erin Brooks has been named the 2025 Rookie of the Year for the World Surf League Championship Tour.

The only women’s rookie to make the mid-season cut, Brooks finished her debut season ranked eighth in the world.

The 18-year-old is the first Canadian to qualify for the tour, Brooks debuted with high expectations, elevated by a victory in her first-ever World Surf League appearance as a wild card in the final event of the 2024 season in Fiji.

Brooks rose to the top of the strong rookie pack and kept herself in contention for the Final 5 right up until the final qualifying event in Tahiti.

Her three semifinal appearances this season all came at notoriously difficult-to-read, shifting sand-bottom breaks, including Supertubos, Portugal, Burleigh Heads, Australia, and Saquarema, Br

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