On Wednesday, December 16, the Poly Surf Team will participate in their final competition of the Sea View League for the 2015-2016 season.
The league finale is being held at the Huntington Beach Pier beginning at 8 A.M. and will last until 2 or 3 P.M. Participants who will compete are the top surfers from each of their schools. These schools include Poly, Wilson, Millikan, Mater Dei, Los Alamitos, and Corona Del Mar.
The Poly roster includes the top ranked surfers in the events composed of six boys’ short board, two long board, two girls’ short board and long board, and a body board.
The boys who will participate in the short board event are seniors Sean Love, Spencer Steffen, Chad King, Isaac Nelson, and Ellis Armendariz, as well as freshman Darren Deutsch. For each event that takes place, coaches Jeff Montooth and Jason Manack has lined up alternative surfers in case the competing surfers would not be able to perform.
On the girls’ side, the short board surfers will be sophomores Juliana Skjonsby and Cora Fahringer, as well as other team members. The girls’ longboard will consist of seniors Eileen Sok and Gabby Cooper. The body boarders are sophomores Mitchell Rita and Jared Cox, boys’ longboard by juniors Graeme Tanaka and Kevin Miranda.
The surfers prepared for this big event by simply going to practice every day and surfing.
“The best conditioning for surfing, is quite frankly, surfing. The surfers knew what they needed to work on for the finale,” said Montooth.
Although the surf team is not part of the Moore League, the Sea View League will award the surfers who will place top five with trophies. Despite the end of the surf season, the coaches are hopeful for a girls’ surf season if there are enough participants. When asked about the season, senior Eileen Sok said one of her favorite memories was when “Montooth and Manack would go into the water with these kooky looking surf caps.”
The Poly Surf Team did well for their first season, beating Corona Del Mar just a few weeks ago.
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