to compete professionally until 1991, when she finished fourth in the world championships. Oberg started her own a surfing school in 1977, the Margo Oberg Surf School, on the island of Kauai. She still owns and operates her surf school to this day. She is the author of a book chapter on competitive surfing strategies for women. She is the mother of two sons, Shane Kainoa (born in the early 1980s) and Jason Kaipo (b. 1987). She has identified herself as a Pentecostal Christian, and would seek out churches while traveling. She said, "I didn't care about the doctrine that much -- I liked the fellowship." She was inducted into the International Surfing Hall of Fame in 1991, and the Surfing Walk of Fame as that year's Woman of the Year; the Walk is in Huntington Beach, California. In 2000, she was ranked 99th on Sports Illustrated's list of the Top 100 Women Athletes of the 20th century. In 2001, she was inducted into the Hawai'i Sports Hall of Fame. In 2018, she received the “Silver Surfer Award”, a lifetime achievement award from the California Surf Museum. References Further reading Kempton, Jim (1981). "Margo". Surfer, July 1981: 42. Booth, Douglas (2001). "From Bikinis to Boardshorts: Wahines and the Paradoxes of Surfing Culture". Journal of Sport History. 28(1): 3-22. American surfers American female surfers Living people 1953 births World Surf League surfers Sportspeople from San Diego County, California People from La Jolla, San Diego 21st-century American women