Sponsored Athlete: SUP Team Rider for Naish, Water Sports Performance Trainer for SUP, surf, windsurf & kite. dirt biker, model, spokesperson, radio show host, SUP Event Director, who loves to help people. Also Elite Athlete for The True Collection Team. Suzie Cooney is the owner of Suzie Trains Maui, founded 2000. Located on Maui's N. Shore, people arrive from around the world to train with her & learn about ocean endurance. She enjoys downwind paddle surfing on Maui's famous Maliko Gulch 10 mile coast paddles, and also races this stretch. She is known for hosting the world's first and largest SUP Event on Maui in Jan 2010 with the Four Seasons, where over 400 women came from around the world to participate. 30 sponsors supported, as did hula dancers, motivational speakers and also 30 brave waterman who protected them from head high surf that day. SInce then she has conducted over 23 FREE women's clinics, and is a known SUP Pioneer and featured in many books and mags.