Twelve-year-old Jacob Hepp is preparing to take on the biggest waves of his life as he gets ready to compete in the USA Surfing Junior Championships in California.
Surfing isn’t the sport most people expect from a kid growing up in Holly Springs, a place with no sand, no swells, and certainly no surf. But Jacob said he’s used to surprising people.
“A lot of people don’t expect, like some way from my friends to just be like, actually really good at surfing, and a lot of my friends are just they think it’s pretty cool,” he said…