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Carolina Cup

The Carolina Cup is a stand up paddle race held annually at Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, North Carolina. Since 2011 it has grown from a regional race into an international headliner, attracting dozens of the world’s fastest athletes as well as hundreds of recreational paddlers.

The 2017 Carolina Cup will be one of the biggest and best races on the calendar, but what makes this event so great is that it still maintains the community spirit that’s welcoming to paddlers of all abilities. The Carolina Cup is where the community comes together in a celebration of the grassroots nature of the sport.

And that’s why SUP Racer will be traveling across the globe to Wrightsville to help bring you the spirit, the excitement and the action of this great race as it happens. We’ll have interviews, pics, previews, predictions and full coverage on race day. So mark your calendar for April 22nd. In the meantime though, you can get the latest Carolina Cup news below…

   
January 5, 2015
by Christopher Parker (@wheresbossman)

So for the past week I've been tossing up which events should be listed as the most significant races of 2015. The "Majors" if you will. But while I continue to twist my mind around trying to produce something close to a definitiv

 
December 28, 2014
by Christopher Parker (@wheresbossman)

There were a lot of SUP races this year. We had over 400 listings on the Rogue Race Calendar. We sent 137 race results to the Results by Riviera archive. You couldn't go a week without your Facebook feed being fl

 
June 6, 2014
by Christopher Parker (@wheresbossman)

Check out this great highlights reel from the 2014 Carolina Cup, featuring plenty of action, plenty of artistic angles and a few entertaining words from the paddlers themselves. This is another classy edit fr

 
May 1, 2014
by Christopher Parker (@wheresbossman)

One of the highlights of this year's Carolina Cup was hearing Dave Kalama speak on the eve of the race. The big guy shared a story from his 2009 Molokai campaign, which didn't end the way he wanted it but still taught him a very

 
April 29, 2014
by Christopher Parker (@wheresbossman)

Check out this darn fine highlights reel from the Carolina Cup. It's got a bit of everything in there, from the rec race to the elite race to everything else that made this such a great event. Love the fin