Benson, Becky

Pioneering Hawaiian pro surfer, state champion in 1972 and 1973, and world-ranked #3 in 1977. Becky and older sister Blanche—daughters of Col. Albert Benson, a cameraman whose work was featured in over a dozen surf movies—were fixtures on Oahu's North Shore in the mid- and late '70s. "[Blanche] surfed big Sunset early, like in ‘68, ‘69. I'd tell her she was all guts and no brains," Benson once sai...