Caroline Marks in the Olympic final against Tatiana Weston-Webb. Photo: Tim McKenna // ISA
Three new names will be inducted into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame this year. The organization has announced that Caroline Marks, Tom Servais and Dwight Dunn will be honored for 2025.
Caroline Marks competed in her first WSL event at 13 and qualified for the Championship Tour at just 15, after which she won 2018 Rookie of the Year. Since then she’s won eight WSL events and one Championship. Most recently, she won a gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, her second time competing in the games.
Tom Servais also grew up surfing in Florida, but eventually made a name for himself behind a camera. After moving to California in 1973, he landed a job in the SURFER magazine darkroom, kicking off a 20-year-long run of shooting for the magazine, before going freelance in the ’90s.
Dwight Dunn’s professional surfing career started at 16, riding for Infinity Surfboards. Eventually, he’d gain more sponsors, garner a few magazine ads, and a full-page photo in a 1976 issue of SURFER. In 1979, he partnered with Carl Hayward to launch Carl Hayward Surfboards. Four years later, he worked with Bob Hurley as he was launching Billabong USA. When Hurley branched off to form his own label in 1999, Dunn joined him, where he would work for 18 years.
“We are honored and excited to induct Caroline, Tom and Dwight into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame this coming August,” said Surfers’ Hall of Fame founder Aaron Pai in a press release. “They are the best in the world in their fields of surfing!”
The Surfers’ Hall of Fame will hold an induction ceremony on Friday, August 1 at 9:00 a.m. in Huntington Beach, California. There, the trio’s hands and footprints will be immortalized in cement in front of Huntington Surf & Sport.
