Cassia Miedor: A Surf Mentor

In Accidental ICON, many professional female surfers credited the Gidget franchise with making surfing a more welcoming sport for women. "I grew up seeing images of Gidget surfing on TV and she's the only woman that I ever saw surfing on TV," Kathy says. Without her and without those movies who know where surfing today would be? The divisions Mickey sowed still pop up like ugly weeds, but he was fighting the inevitable.