I learned to surf before I could walk, and was participating in surfing competitions at age four. When I was thirteen years old, I suffered a shark attack and lost my left arm at the shoulder.
The shark took a chunk out of my surfboard that was about 16 inches across and 8 inches deep, suggesting that the shark was 12-15 feet long. In less than a month I was back in the water, and I returned to competition in just ten weeks, placing fifth in my age group in a National Scholastic Surfing Association meet in Kaiua-Kona, Hawaii.
I won the 2004 ESPY Award from ESPN for Best Comeback Athlete as well as a special Courage Award at the 2007 Teen Choice Awards.
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Here's the game: I give you clues and you try to guess what more or less famous person I'm talking about. The clues are written in the first person, but they weren't really written by that person, they were written by me. A sample clue would be: I was the first pilot to make a successful solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic "the hard way," i.e. from East to West. When you are ready to see the answer, click on "comments" and the answer will appear in a new window.
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The answer is Bethany Hamilton.
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