Anne Leerink

Anne Leerink grew up in the Netherlands, where her family spent all of their free time and holidays sailing, windsurfing, or doing other outdoors sports. While on a windsurf trip with her family in the Canary Islands, Anne asked if she could try out the other kind of surfing, and her entire family took a surf class. Once she stood up on that first wave, she thought, “alright, now I know what I’ll be doing for the rest of my life!”

Ever since, Anne has built her life around surfing. After finishing university in 2017 she took off to surf around the world without any plans. During these travels she went on so many adventures- from teaching kids to surf from the villages in South Africa and managing a surf camp in France, to giving English classes to groms in West Java, Indonesia and living with Maoris in New Zealand. 

After a few years of world travel Anne realized it was time for something new. In the beginning of 2023 she bought a van in the Netherlands, spent 3 months converting it with her grandad, shipped it over to Mexico, and then drove down to Southern Costa Rica within a week. Anne is currently living in her van in Southern Costa Rica and working for SWA. She believes that life is one big fiesta and we can party wave through it. She is ready to take you on that party wave and share her passion for surfing and life with you!