Anna Garaway

   Anna Garaway, from Santa Cruz, California, is the 2nd youngest in a family of competitive surfers. Traveling from an early age around the US with her parents and internationally with her siblings, at 14, Anna went to Chile and never looked back.
   Her surf travels have also taken her to Barbados, Mexico, Hawaii, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Bali, Japan, Italy, England, Holland, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. She fell in love with Costa Rica’s beauty and friendly people and decided to live there. While there Anna returned to competitive surfing, winning the Costa Rican National Women’s Championship. When Anna started surfing she followed her sisters and brother into the contest scene becoming a regular finalist in NSSA, USSF events and joined the USA junior surf team to Indonesia for the Quicksilver World Grommet Games. 
   In 2005 she followed a sister as an instructor in the O’Neill European Surf Academy. She has served as an instructor with numerous California surf schools and in Costa Rica.