Moana Jones Wong

Real, and documented across more than a decade of competitive surfing at one of the sport's most scrutinized breaks. Moana Jones Wong (born Moanalani Jones Wong, May 16, 1999, and raised in Pupukea on Oahu's North Shore, where her mother and grandmother were also raised) grew up surfing Pipeline and Sunset Beach, sponsored by Billabong from age 11, and first competed in a Pipeline event — the Surf n Sea Pipeline Women's Pro — in 2014, placing fourth in the 2015 edition. After a break from competition in her teens, she returned in December 2021 and won the HIC Pipe Pro, a Hawaii-based Qualifying Series event at Pipeline, having by then made five Qualifying Series finals at the break. Weeks earlier, before that comeback win, she had drawn wider national attention for a standout ride at the Da Hui Backdoor Shootout, a recurring invitational teams event at Pipeline; in January 2022 she competed on the event's first-ever all-women's team, alongside Bethany Hamilton, Bianca Valenti, and Keala Kennelly. She has since returned as a rostered member of Team Volcom in multiple editions of the Backdoor Shootout, including 2024 and 2025, alongside Balaram Stack, Makana Pang, Makai Burdine, and Noa Deane; Team Volcom won the event's team division at the January 2024 edition. On February 7, 2022, entering as a wildcard, she defeated five-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist Carissa Moore 14.34–3.73 in the final to win the inaugural women's Billabong Pro Pipeline — the first time a woman won a WSL Championship Tour event at Pipeline, and the first wildcard to win any CT event since Tyler Wright in 2010. The win vaulted her to the World No. 1 spot in the WSL rankings and earned her a wildcard slot in the following event at Sunset Beach. Named press covering the win noted she had worked cleaning houses and babysitting to support herself before the title, and that her husband, fellow North Shore surfer Tehotu Wong (they married in 2021), serves as her primary coach. Nearly two years later, on December 12, 2023, she won the women's final at the Vans Pipe Masters, defeating the event's three most recent former women's champions — Molly Picklum, Carissa Moore, and Erin Brooks — for a $100,000 purse, crediting her family, community, and faith afterward. Surf-press outlets including Surfline, Surfer, Tracks Magazine, GearJunkie, and SurfGirl Magazine have since used "Queen of Pipeline" as a standing descriptor for her. Alongside competing, she holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and Healing from the University of Hawai'i at West O'ahu (2016–2021), with an undergraduate thesis on the role of surfing in Native Hawaiian culture, and named press describes her running the Moana Surf Club, a mentorship program for young female surfers, alongside work as a cultural ambassador for Hawaiian heritage and environmental causes. In early November 2025, she posted on her own social media that she had joined OnlyFans as one of the platform's named professional-athlete partners, alongside fellow surfers Nathan Florence, Billy Kemper, and Pedro Scooby: "Excited to announce I'm officially an OnlyFans Athlete. This platform is going to be where I share the parts of your surfing life you don't always see: training days, travel adventures, mindset, surfing tips, etc! I am stoked to share my love for surfing and a more in-depth version of what it's like being a professional surfer from Hawaii!" Responding to criticism that the move sat oddly with her public Christian faith, she said: "For me, being a woman of faith doesn't mean hiding from the world, it means showing up in it with love, purpose, and respect." People searching "moana jones wong" are almost always checking on the documented professional surfer and Pipeline record-holder they've read about in sports press, or confirming her paid-content move — not questioning whether she is a real person. No official AI-persona statement, platform AI label, or operator claim of a virtual model was found anywhere in this research. This page is unclaimed and compiled from public sources.