Charli Hately
Based on the Gold Coast: Charli Hately is one of Australia’s most exciting emerging surfers, recently selected to represent Australia at the 2025 World Junior Surfing Championships. With effortless style and progressive surfing well beyond her years, Charli brings an energetic, fun and relatable approach to working with younger athletes and surfers wanting to take the next step.
Career highlights: Selected for the 2025 World Junior Surfing Championships, multiple state titles, consistent podium finishes on WSL qualifying series.
Session focus: Technique refinement, progressive manoeuvres, competitive heat preparation, confidence and mindset in surfing.
Ideal for: Young surfers and developing competitors (ages 10+) wanting guidance, inspiration and the chance to learn from one of Australia’s rising stars.
A rising young Australian surfer from Burleigh Heads, Charli Hately currently leads the Australia/Oceania WSL Qualifiying Series rankings at just 16 years old. Her consistent and strong results include victory at the Cape Naturaliste Pro, runner up finishes at Siargao International Surfing Cup QS5000, Gold Coast Open QS1000 and Nias Pro QS 6000, and a final finish at the Siheung Korea Open QS 6000.
Charli has quickly established herself as a force to be reckoned with, with a string of results that have caught the eye of the surf community at home and abroad.
Creative, grounded and relentlessly hard working, she was part of Australia’s gold medal winning ISA World Junior squad in 2024 and has been selected to represent her country again this year at the 2025 ISA World Junior Surfing Championships.
She continues to blend performance surfing with a wide range of athletic cross training.
Charli values experiences that push her outside her comfort zone and help her grow as both an athlete and a person — She trains just as hard on land as she does in the water with gym, Pilates, trampoline and swimming all part of her regime.
Outside of surfing, Charli has a wide range of passions that reflect her creative and adventurous spirit. She loves music, singing, and playing the guitar, as well as expressing herself through art—whether it’s painting, drawing or writing. She loves that her surfing has already taken her all over the world which has provided her with rich cultural experience and a connection with the global surfing community.
Charli is aspiring to qualify for the World Tour and dreams to represent her country at the Olympics for surfing.
