MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala. —

Lulu Gribbin, a teen from Mountain Brook, is known around the country for surviving a shark attack.

She has spent every day since then proving her resilience and using her story to advocate for others.

"Life might throw curveballs at us," she said. "You never give up, and you just keep swimming."

Gribbin was swimming in shallow water last June when a shark attacked her . She remembers the moment clearly.

"When I was attacked, I knew everything that had happened," she said. "I was in so much shock that I didn’t feel it bite me."

The reality hit moments later.

"I raised my arm out of the water, and there was just nothing there," she said.

She lost a hand, a leg and the world she once knew.

Today, you can find her on a golf course, one leg planted, an adaptiv

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