Sports administration is a fairly unsexy pursuit, but it’s for his epic 1970’s surf travels that saw him visit over a hundred countries and surf in over 60 of them, on many occasions the first person to do so that Triple Crown honcho Randy Rarick takes his place among the greats of the sport. Co-founder of the IPS (precursor to the ASP) in 75, Rarick created the Hawaiian Triple Crown in 82 and has run it ever since. All this for a kid who moved to Hawaii aged five and started out in the sport doing ding repairs for Greg Noll.