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"\"&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2009\\/02\\/14\\/usa_surfteam_ajneste.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1000078233\\\" title=\\\"usa_surfteam_ajneste\\\" src=\\\"\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2009\\/02\\/14\\/usa_surfteam_ajneste.600x400.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"\\\" width=\\\"600\\\" height=\\\"400\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p style=\\\"text-align: center;\\\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The 2009 PacSun USA Surf Team. Photo courtesy: AJ Neste\\/Surfing America&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cOne thing I learned about Worlds last year was that it\\u2019s a grind. It lasts a long time. It\\u2019s very tough mentally and it tests you. That\\u2019s why I\\u2019ve got guys running heats right here,\\u201d Coach Buran explains.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The here he\\u2019s referring to is best described as waist high, unyielding onshore-wind-driven mushburgers. But, as is the case with watching groms tackle that sort of unholy surf, they make it look appealing throughout the day on Friday.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The mental toughness aspect Coach Buran has been working hard at developing in America\\u2019s best youngsters is showcased in the work the travel squad selections have put in this week, having to deal with a variety of conditions and extended heats. \\u201cLast year\\u2019s selection camp I made it all come down to one day,\\u201d Coach Buran noted. \\u201cThe problem with that is, one day can all go bad. So this year I decided on a week long training process.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1000078203 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'&gt;&lt;figure class='gallery-item'&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t&lt;div class='gallery-icon landscape'&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t&lt;a href='http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/surf\\/pacsun-usa-surf-team-selected-to-travel-to-isa-world-jr-championship-in-ecuador\\/attachment\\/_mg_6138stein\\/'&gt;&lt;img width=\\\"150\\\" height=\\\"100\\\" src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2009\\/02\\/mg_6138stein.jpg\\\" class=\\\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\\\" alt=\\\"Pac Sun USA Surf Team, Kolohe Andino, Nat Young surfer, Coach Pete Carroll, Quiksilver Bob Mcknight, USC Football, college football coach, Huntington Beach, surfing, surfers\\\" aria-describedby=\\\"gallery-1-1000078222\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t&lt;figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1000078222'&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t\\tPac Sun USA Surf Team, Kolohe Andino, Nat Young surfer, Coach Pete Carroll, Quiksilver Bob Mcknight, USC Football, college football coach, Huntington Beach, surfing, surfers\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t&lt;\\/figcaption&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;&lt;figure class='gallery-item'&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t&lt;div class='gallery-icon landscape'&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t&lt;a href='http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/surf\\/pacsun-usa-surf-team-selected-to-travel-to-isa-world-jr-championship-in-ecuador\\/attachment\\/usa_surfteam_ajneste\\/'&gt;&lt;img width=\\\"150\\\" height=\\\"100\\\" src=\\\"http:\\/\\/www.grindtv.com\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2009\\/02\\/usa_surfteam_ajneste.jpg\\\" class=\\\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\\\" alt=\\\"usa_surfteam_ajneste\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;\\n\\t\\t\\t&lt;\\/div&gt;&lt;\\/figure&gt;\\n\\t\\t&lt;\\/div&gt;\\n\\n&lt;p&gt;That process culminated at the end of Friday, when the last trial positioning heats were complete. Friday also included a lot more than some testing heats though. The USA Surf Team heard from Quiksilver founder Bob Mcknight and USC Football Coach Pete Carroll, in hopes of igniting a fire under their asses and keeping it blazing well through the next two months.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;During a Boys U16 heat, Coach Buran enlightened Coach Carroll on the dynamics of the heat at hand. While a bout of friendly sorts between Kolohe Andino and Evan Geiselman was going down in the water, Coach Carroll learned the ins and outs of heat strategy and witnessed two of the top standouts for this year\\u2019s USA Team.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Following the U16 heat, Bob McKnight spoke to the entire team and touched on the fact that these fortunate kids have been chosen to represent the United States of America, and are some of the best surfers their ages in the world. He also expressed that these young Americans represent the future of our sport, as well as the sport itself and the culture that has been formed by it.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;Coach Carroll then took center sand and spoke of the enormous opportunity these teenagers have to be good at what they love doing. He expressed that USC Football is as good as they are, day in and day out because they don\\u2019t pay attention to who their competitors are, but to who they themselves are. Coach Carroll got across that to be victorious, one must envision what one can become, and then bust ass to become that vision of greatness.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The guest speaker duo of Mcknight and Carroll did a tremendous job of furthering Coach Buran\\u2019s message that it\\u2019s not about what another team can do, it\\u2019s about what ones own team can do.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;The most obvious competition for Team USA though is the Australians, who are the three-time defending Gold medalists at the ISA World Surfing Junior Championships. But they\\u2019re certainly not the only legitimate roadblocks to USA bringing back the Gold from Ecuador. \\u201cTraditionally Hawaii, Australia, and Brazil are all big threats,\\u201d Coach Buran stated. He continued, \\u201cSouth Africa is always good, New Zealand is pretty feisty, and France was really good last year. Because all these teams have well developed programs and they have deep teams is why they\\u2019re threats.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;America has it\\u2019s solid points as well though. Here is Coach Buran\\u2019s rundown on the three divisions:&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cOur [Boys] Under 16 is an excellent team. I mean are you kidding me? [Kolohe] Andino, Connor Coffin, and [Evan] Geiselman, and then Ian Craine rounds it off. This is a really strong division for us. These guys are seasoned, they\\u2019re great competitors, and they\\u2019re just plain great surfers. That\\u2019s our strong point.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cIn our Girls [Under 18], we have a veteran like Courtney [Conlogue], who knows how to win and is a serious Gold medal contender. Kayleigh [Gilchrist] is a veteran, and she\\u2019s got some power. But Lakey [Peterson] and Lani [Doherty] are kind of x-factors. They\\u2019re both young, talented, and they\\u2019re coming on. They can get a little raw in their heat management, but their talent\\u2019s there. I\\u2019d say our Girls team is a top five in the world because of Courtney\\u2019s strength and savvy, and Kayleigh\\u2019s experience.&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;\\u201cIn our [Boys] Under 18s, Nat Young is a fantastic surfer and Fisher [Heaverly] is rock solid. Evan Thompson is a \\u2018QS Jr. guy here in America who is also extremely solid. And then Chase Wilson did it again here yesterday, and he\\u2019s been to the Worlds and got 16th. So really, our [Boys] Under 18 team has experience at the Worlds, I think that will help out a lot.\\u201d&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;With Coach Buran\\u2019s second year in full-swing, his culture is growing and establishing, and it\\u2019s evident that there is a lot of potential for Team USA. But again, it comes down to staying focused on the task at hand, and preparing oneself and not &lt;em&gt;for&lt;\\/em&gt; another team. \\u201cIt\\u2019s a talented team, and on paper it\\u2019s a better team than last years,\\u201d Coach Buran expressed. He went on about his young Americans, \\u201cWe have more experience than last year and I think the key for us is like what Pete Carroll said, we need to focus on &lt;em&gt;our&lt;\\/em&gt; game and execute &lt;em&gt;our&lt;\\/em&gt; gameplan, and not worry about what anybody else is doing. I think we have the right balance to do that and I\\u2019m looking forward to seeing how we can do.\\u201d &lt;em&gt;-Ryan Brower&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;h1&gt;2009 PacSun USA Surf Team Travel Squad:&lt;\\/h1&gt;\\n&lt;h2&gt;Girls U18&lt;\\/h2&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Courtney Conlogue&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Lani Doherty&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Kaleigh Gilchrist&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Lakey Peterson&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;*Alternate &amp;#8211; Taylor Pitz&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h2&gt;Boys U18&lt;\\/h2&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Fisher Heverly&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Evan Thompson&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Chase Wilson&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Nat Young&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;*Alternate &amp;#8211; Balaram Stack&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h2&gt;Boys U16&lt;\\/h2&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Kolohe Andino&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Connor Coffin&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Ian Crane&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;Evan Geiselman&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;h3&gt;*Alternates &amp;#8211; Jacob Halstead, Colin Moran&lt;\\/h3&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stay tuned to TransWorldSURF.com for continuous updates on the PacSun USA Surf Team as the traveling squad gears up for the 2009 Quiksilver ISA World Surfing Junior Championships in Ecuador, which goes down March 28 \\u2013 April 5.&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\\\"\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2009\\/02\\/13\\/_mg_6138stein.jpg\\\"&gt;&lt;img class=\\\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1000078222\\\" title=\\\"_mg_6138stein\\\" src=\\\"\\/wp-content\\/uploads\\/2009\\/02\\/13\\/_mg_6138stein.600x400.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"Pac Sun USA Surf Team, Kolohe Andino, Nat Young surfer, Coach Pete Carroll, Quiksilver Bob Mcknight, USC Football, college football coach, Huntington Beach, surfing, surfers\\\" width=\\\"488\\\" height=\\\"325\\\" \\/&gt;&lt;\\/a&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p style=\\\"text-align: left;\\\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Team USA showing Coach Carroll the finer points of throwing a shaka. Photo: Steindler&lt;\\/em&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n&lt;p style=\\\"text-align: left;\\\"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FOR FULL COVERAGE OF THURSDAY IN HUNTINGTON HEAD TO THE NEXT PAGE&amp;#8230;&lt;\\/strong&gt;&lt;\\/p&gt;\\n\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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