Overview

• At 12 years old, Gallina will become the youngest surfer ever to compete in a World Surf League event when she takes to Teahupo'o on August 6.
• She secured her spot by winning July’s WSL Trials in Tahiti, earning direct entry into the main draw.
• Teahupo'o is famed for its shallow reef and seven-meter waves that barrel across the Pacific before crashing onshore.
• Daughter of a Hawaiian father and Tahitian mother, Gallina has been surfing since age three and grew up watching the lineup from her bedroom.
• Competing under the Instagram handle @MissTeahupoo, she has drawn over 13,000 followers with videos of her rides through crystal-clear tubes.