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The Guard Has Changed: Get to Know Sophomore Phenom Molly Picklum

The guard has changed. If you need a case study in the younger generation coming up, look no further than Molly Picklum the surfer from Australia.

The guard has changed. Everyone’s been talking about it for years — that inevitable point in time where the the students become the teachers and the ones who used to be doing the dominating are dominating no longer. The kids have to come up at some point in time, and that time is now. If you need a case study, look no further than Molly Picklum.

She sat down with Joe Turpel for the WSL’s One on One before the Western Australia Margaret River Pro to talk about re-qualifying and what it’s like to shoulder the weight of the Yellow Leader’s Jersey going into the mid-season cut. Big things have already come from Picklum, but bigger things are on the horizon.