LBHS Surf Takes 2nd Place at The 2019 NSSA Regional State Championships

Sam Nelsen

LBHS Surf Takes Second Place at The NSSA Regional State Championships, Roller, Coscino, Booth, and Nelsen Make Finals

The Laguna Beach High School surf Team had a very successful weekend surfing in The NSSA Interscholastic Regional State Championships for the third year in a row. Laguna’s tremendous showing took them all the way to 2nd overall with an 84 point total just 9 points behind San Clemente. In all there were ten schools competing and this is the best result for Laguna to date. The big result was definitely a whole Team effort. Laguna was represented in each of the Division Finals. Jameson Roller led the way in Longboard with a 3rdand our Women Kayla Coscino and Tess Booth both did awesome taking 4thand 5th, while Sam Nelsen won heat after heat dominating the field on Saturday and closed out the Mens Final for Shortboard in 6th.

The rest of our Men Shortboarders did super well making several rounds and helped Laguna Beach High School to their impressive finish. Trey Lockhart and Liam McCue had some outstanding performances barely coming up short of advancement in the Quarter Finals. Meanwhile there was great surfing and efforts also put in by Kiko Nelsen, Jett Nelson and Kyle Shaw.

The event was held at Seaside Reef, Cardiff by the sea in North County, San Diego and surf on Saturday was pretty good in the morning, but got progressively worse as the day went on. The weather was pretty bad with plenty of rain and some wind. Sunday Afternoon prior to the Finals there was wind and rain, but the kids still managed to navigate the conditions really well.

With this great showing, Laguna Beach will be competing in the NSSA High School National Championships, which are held at Salt Creek in June.

Thank you to all the Parents and team who supported us helping out with the tent, providing food and good cheer and also a big shout out to Ellen Nelsen for the outstanding photos.

From your Coaches Scott Finn and Alisa Cairns