As a fourteen year old, Sally won the ASP Pro Junior open event, an event open to any female surfer 21 and younger. Sally started surfing at a young age, winning the Icon All-Girls Open Event Lennox Head in 2006 at age 16. In her first attempt to reach the Women's elite World Surfing Tour via the World Qualifying Series, Sally set a record by wrapping up the 2008 WQS series in the first 5 events to become the youngest World Surfing Tour qualifier in ASP history.