At solely 15 years previous, Marlynn Glaub has completed one thing most surfers solely dream of: she is touring to El Salvador to compete within the World Junior Championships as a member of Staff USA.

Glaub, who’s from Jupiter, has been browsing since she was 8 years previous after attending surf camp and shortly falling in love with the game.

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“I have been browsing for seven years now. I went to surf camp and fell in love with it, and I have been doing it ever since,” Glaub stated.

Her ardour for browsing runs within the household. Her father surfed when he was youthful and nonetheless surfs at present, and it was her mother and father who first inspired her to offer it a attempt.

“My dad was a surfer when he was youthful, and he nonetheless surfs, so it was my mother and father who actually satisfied me to begin going to surf camp, and after that I began begging them to go extra weeks that summer season,” Glaub stated.

She shortly moved into aggressive browsing, competing in native Japanese Browsing Affiliation occasions round Jupiter with the assistance of her coach, William Kimbell.

“I am a six-time East Coast Champion. I even have been on the USA Junior Nationwide group for 2 years now,” Glaub stated.

Glaub is certainly one of solely three feminine athletes chosen to characterize Staff USA within the Worldwide Browsing Affiliation Junior Championships. The occasion options 50 to 60 nations and is taken into account the largest occasion within the sport.

“It is virtually like a mini-Olympics. There are nations from all around the world, it is simply the entire world competing towards one another,” Glaub stated.

She calls the choice certainly one of her biggest achievements up to now.

“That is in all probability certainly one of my greatest accomplishments to this point,” Glaub stated.

Whereas she is keen to compete, Glaub admits the size of the occasion brings some nerves.

“It is positively somewhat nerve-wracking as a result of that is my first ISA, however I am actually excited as a result of we’ve a extremely good group. I am tremendous excited; it should be tremendous enjoyable,” Glaub stated.

The ISA Junior Championships run Sept. 4-13 in El Salvador.