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Haleiwa\u2019s Jordyn Barratt shows her talent in the bowl. Photo from Island Style Images.<\/p><\/div>\n

Haleiwa resident Jordyn Barratt has returned to the island from Newcastle, Australia, where she took second place in the Hurley Australian Bowl Riding Championships.<\/p>\n

“It felt really great,” she said. “I had a lot of fun doing the contest and I loved it.”<\/p>\n

This 14-year-old skate-boarder was featured as Girl on the Board website’s February Girl of the Month and has only been skating for a few years. But her raw talent has taken her to great heights.<\/p>\n

“My friends from school said they were going to the skate park after school, and I went and started skating,” explained Barratt, a student at Waialua Intermediate School. “I loved it, and I’ve been doing it ever since (I started at age 11).”<\/p>\n

Before her success in Australia, Barratt competed in the third annual Vans Girl Combi Pool Classic held Jan. 19 at Vans Skate Park in Orange, Calif., where she placed third.<\/p>\n

Barratt trains as much as she can, despite a full school load.<\/p>\n

“I just get all my school-work done,” Barratt said. “I get it done at school on breaks or on the bus.”<\/p>\n

She trains at a skate bowl about an hour away from her house three to four times a week, and when she isn’t there, she is skating at Banzai Skatepark on the North Shore.<\/p>\n

“I train every day that I can,” Barratt said, who also surfs as a hobby. “Every time I go to the skate park, I just try to work as hard as I can.”<\/p>\n

Her hard work has paid off in the recent past and will prepare her for upcoming contests on the Mainland: The U.S. Open of Surfing at Huntington Beach, Calif., and the Rocky Mountain Rampage in Colorado.<\/p>\n

Although she is back home, there is no rest for Barratt in the near future.<\/p>\n

Besides training for the big contests coming up on the Mainland this year, she also is striving to reach her goal of becoming an X-Games athlete by next summer.<\/p>\n

“I want to keep skating and get better and better,” Barratt said. “Eventually I want to get into the X-Games.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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