The events will include booth pool swimming competition and the 5K Open Water Championship.
She will represent the U.S. as a member of the 2005 National Junior Team. Each swimmer on the team has clocked the fastest time in each event at either the USA Swimming Long Course National or the Long Course Sectional Championships.
While being a member of the National Junior Team is not an automatic ticket to the Olumpics, at everty Olympics, since the creation of the National Junior Team, at least one former member of the team has qualified for the U.S. Olympic Team.
An added bonus for Sun is that she won't be competing with strangers.
Her best friend, Samantha VandenBerge from Whittier, will also be making the trip.
"We have been friends for four-and-a-half years. We like to call each other Superhero nicknames. I call her 'Spiderman' and she calls me "Superman'.
Both compete locally for the Swim Pasadena Club. Both are high school sophomores who will graduate in 2007, Sun from Crescenta Valley and VandenBerge from La Serna. Sun likes to play the piano when she isn't busy training or competing in the pool.
Ironically, Sun became interested in swimming because her parents wanted her brother to get involved in swimming. "My parents wanted my brother to swim and they took me along. He didn't like it, but I did," she said.
Her parents were skeptical that she would stick with it and was doing it only because her brother was, she said. "I took lessons for two weeks and I made the team," Sun said.
Sun, who is a member of the Falcons' varsity swimming team, competes mainly in the 1,500 meters and the 800 meters freestyle races. Last year, she finished seventh in the 1,500 and eighth in the 800 at the CP Summer Nationals.
Sun also competed in both events at the CP Spring Nationals where she finished 22nd in the 1,500 and 33rd in the 800.
Sun said she isn't too concerned about the competition as she is about making a good impression. "This is the first time where I have left the country to compete. It doesn't bother me that I will be competing against people I don't know. I don't know the people I compete against in other meets.
"The pressure in on because you are representing the United States and you want to be a good ambassador," Sun said.
Sun said she has two dreams in life which shouldn't conflict with each other. "My dream now is to go to the Olympics. I want to compete in the Olympics in 2008 and 2012.
"My other dream is to become a pediatric doctor. I will still swim in the first four years of college, but after that I will concentrate on becoming a pediatrician. That's in the back of my mind," Sun said.
