I am so honoured to be selected to represent Australia this year at the 2026 ISA World Junior Surf Championships taking place in Surf City, El Salvador from September 4-13. My goal for the past few years has been to represent Australia on the world stage and qualify for this awesome opportunity. I am one of 3 Australian boys who will be competing in the 16's division at this international event and it is such an amazing feeling to be representing my country as a proud Irukandji (the name given to the national surfing team members) and be able to don the green and gold!

As part of the Irukandji team, I will travel with Surfing Australia and the costs that incur will be for team uniforms, ISA registrations, coaching and support, flights, accomodation, food and other expenses.

Any support that you can provide towards my campaign at the ISA championships would be greatly appreciated as it is a costly experience but one that I will never forget and am so looking forward to.

If you can help me share this campaign I would also be so grateful as I currently have no social media/instagram account due to an age mistake Meta made on my instagram account, which has now been disabled.

Thank you sooo much for your support....Rio