Surf Camp Team

Amy Pope
Certified Surf Instructor

Amy Pope is originally from New York. She has participated in competitive athletics throughout high school and college, and she is currently an active student athlete for California State University at East Bay, where she swims in the freestyle sprinting events and balances training and traveling schedules with advanced courses.

Amy is currently lobbying to create a surf club on her college campus in order to educate faculty members and fellow students on the fundamentals of surfing and ocean conservation. As a surfer of six and a half years, she has expanded her horizons by enduring two physically and emotionally demanding weeks of rookie training to become an ocean-certified lifeguard.

Amy has been a short boarder for most of her surfing career, but recently she has learned the techniques of long board surfing. Despite extensive traveling experience, Amy says that her favorite spot to surf is still in her native town of Long Beach, New York. Even in the coldest temperatures Amy tries to find her way out into the water, if only to catch a few good waves.

Whether in the pool or the salty ocean, Amy spends as much time as possible in the water. When she is not in the water you can find her running on the beach or enjoying the good company of her friends.

Currently a sophomore in college, Amy intends to major in Nutritional Sciences to pursue a career as a certified dietician. Amy is also passionate about learning new languages and about new cultures, and she plans to study abroad in South Africa. She is proficient in speaking, writing, understanding Spanish, Italian, and Hebrew.

 In addition to long hours of practice in the pool for her swim team, Amy participates in intense ballet training. Her strength and flexibility from 13 years of dance training has contributed greatly to her success as a surfer. Some of Amy’s favorite musical genres are reggae, blues, and jazz, and she enjoys playing the electric bass.

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