Mexico’s National Surf Team for Portugal World Surfing Games

The following surf team will represent Mexico and the Mexican Surfing Federation, AC at the 2008 ISA World Surfing Games:
 
OPEN MEN
Diego Cadena
Heriberto Ramirez
Abel Estopin
Raúl Medina
Alternate: José Velazquez
 
OPEN WOMEN
Citlali Calleja
Vanesa González
 
BODYBOARD MEN
Moisés Valdez
Carlos Guerrero
 
BODYBOARD WOMEN
Kenya León
 
LONGBOARD
Pablo Bonilla
 
MANAGER
David Hernández
 
COACH  
Eduardo Hiram Verboonen
 
JUDGE
Horacio García

The Mexican team has competed in every previous ISA World Surfing Games edition since 1996. Mexico’s best result came in 2004 at Salinas, Ecuador, where they obtained a respectable 14th position. In the last edition, which took place at Huntington Beach, California the Mexican team obtained the 15th position.

One of Mexico’s surfing stars, Diego Cadena, was its best competitor, and obtained the 13th position among the 150 best surfers of the World.

About International Surfing Association
The International Surfing Association (ISA) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the World Governing Authority for surfing, bodyboarding and surfriding. It was originally founded as the International Surfing Federation in 1964 and has been running world championships since 1964 and the Junior World Championships since 1980. 

ISA membership includes the surfing National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of over 50 countries on six continents. Its headquarters are located in San Diego, California. It is presided by Fernando Aguerre, first elected in 1994 in Rio, and re-elected six times since.  The ISA's four Vice Presidents are Alan Atkins (Australia), Robin de Kock (South Africa), Maile Aguerre (Hawaii) and Mike Gerard (USA).

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