History was made on Sunday, when surfers Sally Fitzgibbons, Courtney Conlogue, and Molly Picklum paddled out in the first heat of the first Women’s Billabong Pro Pipeline, on the North Shore of O’ahu, Hawaii. Previously, this leg of the women’s Championship Tour was held at Honolua Bay, Maui, but now the women have the opportunity to join the men at one of the most challenging and unforgiving breaks on tour. In the second heat on Sunday, Hawaiian Malia Manuel made more history by being the first woman to score 8.17 in the event, after threading a clean barrel at Backdoor, the righthand break at Pipe, World Surf League (WSL) reported. “To be honest I was super stressed, I wanted to alleviate that by catching a few waves and kind of just getting the ball rolling,” Manuel said. She said it was her first real winter surfing Pipeline, but that she’d put …