2017-2018 Scholastic Surf Series Event #4

Lucas Jablon
LBHS Outstanding at Scholastic Surf Series Event #4. Individual Champions Kiko Nelsen, Kelly Smith, and Jade Howsen 
The LBHS Surf team members were very strong today at the Scholastic Surf Series Event #4 with several top finishes in the Individual Finals. Once again with a smaller then normal group, many of the kids available competed successfully in multiple divisions.
The day started out with Team competition and we were up against El Toro who had a limited team. It was mostly a chance for the Laguna surfers to get some good practice in before the Individual competition began. We ended up taking a lopsided team win 62 to 3.
The Laguna surfers were on a roll surfing really well and progressing to the various Finals. Our Women continued to sweep the Shortboard and Longboard Finals going 1 and 2. Kelly Smith took the Shortboard Win, followed by Claire Kelly in 2nd and Jade Howsen took the Longboard Final with Maya Takabayashi taking 2nd.
Our Men were also very strong with multiple Division Finalists. Kiko Nelsen led the way taking 1st in Longboard and 3rd in Shortboard. Meanwhile other impressive performance were put in by Lucas Jablon taking 4th, followed by a first time finalist Luca Elghanayan who took 5th and Sam Nelsen rounded out the Final in 6th and again took a 6th in Longboard. Joseph Schenck was another surfer to do double duty and made the Finals in Longboard taking 5th overall.
The event was held at San Clemente pier under sunny skies and glassy small surf in the morning, but as the tide bottomed out for Finals it was pretty tough to find decent waves.
Thank you to the kids who participated and the Parents, especially Ellen Nelsen for her support and great action shots!
From your Coaches Alisa Cairns and Scott Finn
Jade Howson

Sam Nelsen

Joseph Schenk

Kelly Smith

Kiko Nelsen

Luca Elghanayan

Maya Takabayashi

Sam Nelsen

Claire Kelly

Kiko Nelsen

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