Tyler proud as her bro rules waves

A LITTLE sister burst into tears after she gave her brother a cuddle at the Quiksilver Pro this week.

World champion Tyler Wright had to walk away from the TV cameras before it became too much.

Owen Wright had just returned victorious from his first round one heat at his first world tour event back from a traumatic brain injury.

She’d watched her older brother suddenly lose control of his body more than a year ago in Hawaii with her younger brother Mikey.

Owen had been held down by huge waves, but he didn’t think anything of it until he realised he couldn’t get up after taking a nap and had to be taken to hospital in an ambulance.

Throughout her world title year Tyler supported her big brother recovering from bleeding on the brain. A traumatic brain injury, known as a “hidden disability”.

So to see Owen, 27, return and take out his first round heat at Snapper Rocks was momentous.

“It’s been a long year, a tough year, I think it was probably toughest on Owen, seeing him go through something like that is quite a journey,” she told the Gold Coast

Imagine not being able to remember what you did five minutes ago – it’s just so huge

Bulletin in the lead up to the competition.

“In those early stages (of his injury) I was the only one there at the start, and my little brother, and I was thrown in a situ-

JULIE WILLIAMS