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December's Girl of the Month: Lauren

by: Alex | Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | 7 comments

December's Girl of the Month is a competitive surfer, Marketing & Fashion Merchandising major and a "down-to-earth girl who just loves life." Read on to find out why Lauren Ngan is our kind of gal.

etnies: Tell us about yourself...
Lauren: Hi! I am Lauren Ngan. I am currently nineteen years old and live in Dana Point, California. I am a freshman at Cal State Long Beach majoring in Marketing and Fashion Merchandising.

e: What are your interests?
L: Surfing, friends, photography, scrabble, sushi and Golden Spoon

e: Any talents you'd like to share?
L: I’d say I’m pretty creative and athletic.

e: How'd you get into surfing?
L: My mom was a huge influence. My mom was all into surfing before I even pursued it. She was the one who took me out on a board at Doheny and made me surf. When I first started surfing, I hated it. But she kept pushing me to surf and now it has become my life. I love her. Without her, I wouldn’t have this blessing in my life.

e: Tell us about your competitions.
L: I started competing about 3 years ago. When I was a junior in high school, I started out doing high school contests for the Dana Hills High School Surf Team and local events at San O’ and Doheny. By my senior year in high school, I was doing the WSA season all over the coast of California as well as coalition events for the Doheny Longboard Surfing Association. I was doing every contest that I was given the opportunity to do. The summer I graduated, I decided to pursue my first pro contest, which turned out to be a success. Since then, I have just been doing coalition events, local events and some pro/am events.

e: What's your favorite thing about competing?
L: I like competing because it gives me a challenge. It gives me motivation to do well and improve my surfing.

e: And what do you like about etnies ?
L: I love a company that promotes all girls sports. Girls can do just as much as any guy. Girls just have to give it a try.

e: Why are you an etnies girl?
L: I am who I am. I am probably the happiest girl you will ever meet. I’m an outgoing, down-to-earth girl who just loves life.

e: What do you do for fun?
L: I surf all the time. It’s probably my favorite pastime. I love just hanging out with my friends watching a movie and going to golden spoon.

e: What inspires you?
L: I find inspiration in people who are totally amped on surfing. You can just see it on their face how happy they are. I find it inspiring.

e: What's your biggest accomplishment so far?
L: Placing in my first pro event last summer.

e: Why do you love surfing so much?
L: Surfing is a passion to me that words cannot express. I love being able to do something independent and excel in it.

e: What’s the best piece of advice you’ve gotten?
L: The best advice that I have been given was from my mom to always be humble and to respect others around you. She has told me this ever since I started surfing. If you respect others, they will respect you.

e: What’s really important to you ?
L: My family and friends are really important to me. They support me 100% in whatever I do. They are always there through the good and the bad. I love them and I am so blessed to have them in my life.

e: Is there anything else you would like to tell us about yourself?
L: I’ve got big dreams and my goal in life is to make them happen.

Lauren's Favorite Things

Place: Hawaii
Animal: star fish, they don’t bite.
Color: yellow
Hangout: San O’ and Doheny
City: Dana Point
Song: American Girl by Tom Petty
Band: Tom Petty, The Weepies, The Shins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Joshua Radin
Book: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Movie: Hook
TV show: Ugly Betty
Sport: Surfing
Game: Scrabble
Food: Sushi
Candy: gummy bears
Holiday: 4th of July
Smell: my grandma’s cooking
Hobby: dancing
Guilty pleasure: I go to Golden Spoon everyday. It’s probably bad for me but it’s just so good!
Athlete: Kassia Meador
Hero: My mom
etnies shoe: Toddsy Sandal