Grom of the Week: Noah Lavik
This week’s featured grom is San Clemente’s Noah Lavik, who finished runner-up in the highly competitive Boys Under 14 division during the Western Surfing Association’s season kickoff at Trail 6...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Samaira Lizzi
This week’s featured grom is Samaira Lizzi, an 11-year-old San Clemente ripper who’s been getting into a competitive spirit recently, showing up at the Western Surfing Association competition at Trail...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Dane Matson
This week’s featured grom is Dane Matson, a powerful goofy-footer who is anchoring the San Clemente High Surf Team this year. Matson is focused, determined and extremely talented, as he looks to lead...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Bella Kenworthy
This week’s featured grom is Bella Kenworthy, a San Clemente talent who was on a tear at the Super Girl Pro in Oceanside last weekend. Ripping through heat after heat, en route to a very respectable...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Willow Wilder Holman
Just how does a 5-year-old get into ’80s hair metal? That’s a question perhaps only Willow Wilder Holman, our featured Grom of the Week, can answer. Not only is Willow, a hard-charging kindergartener,...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Ruby Stringfellow
This week’s featured grom is Ruby Stringfellow, who topped the podium in the Girls Open Mini Grom division this past weekend. In her first win of the NSSA season, Stringfellow earned some big scores...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Jacob Brown
This week’s featured grom is Jacob Brown, the only freshman on the Dana Hills Varsity Surf Team, who’s proving that hard work pays off. Dedicating himself to his surfing, he’s been putting in the hard...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Lucas Senkbeil
This week’s featured grom is Lucas Senkbeil, who swept the Men’s and Juniors divisions results during last weekend’s NSSA event at the Oceanside Pier. As his strong rail game, progressive flair and...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Eden Walla
This week’s featured grom is Eden Wall, who took a well-earned win in the Girls Under 16 division during the opening event of the 2022 USA Surfing West Coast Prime Series this past weekend in...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Clayton Hill
This week’s featured grom is San Clemente’s Clayton Hill, who has been on a hot one as of late. A seventh-grader representing Bernice Ayer Middle School, he’s been posting some solid results in recent...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Marlo Leigh Harris
This week’s featured grom is Marlo Leigh Harris, who’s proven that hard work pays off. A couple weeks ago, she landed support from Rip Curl Dana Point, and now with a new sticker on the nose of her...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Harper Olenik
This week’s featured grom is Harper Olenik, who’s been crushing it among the Western Surfing Association ranks over the past month. Most recently, 9-year-old Harper ventured north to Morro Bay for stop...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Let’s All Be Thankful
By Jake Howard If you’re a young, frothing grom, there are few places on this beautiful blue planet better suited to be a young surfer… The post Grom of the Week: Let’s All Be Thankful appeared first...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Waylon Brennan
This week’s featured grom is Waylon Brennan, a regular at Salt Creek who, earlier this month, took his second Western Surfing Association win in the 10 and Under division. For the effort, Waylon now...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Koa Morehead
This week’s featured grom is Koa Morehead of San Clemente—a grom on the move. Whether it’s ripping Lowers with friends and family or hitting a local skatepark, 12-year-old Koa’s brimming with...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Isla Pinto
This week’s featured grom is 10-year-old Isla Pinto of San Clemente, who has been working tirelessly on her surfing. Now competing in the paddle divisions of NSSA and WSA contests, she made a WSA final...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Otis Sanders
This week’s featured grom is Otis Sanders, who won the 7 and Under division at the San Clemente Open this past September and has been rolling ever since. A second-grader at Concordia Elementary School...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Addison McPhillips
This week’s featured grom is Addison McPhillips, a junior at San Clemente High who recently won the South Coast League individuals for the Tritons. A competitive weapon, McPhillips scored some big...
View ArticleGrom of the Week: Bonham Colaco
This week’s featured grom is Bonham Colaco, one of the most stoked groms you’re going to find bobbing around out there. Colaco epitomizes what it means to be a young, fired-up, frothing surfer today....
View ArticleGrom of the Week: WSL World Junior Championships
This week, the WSL World Junior Championships are being contested at Seaside Reef, and to kick off the event, there was a ton of local talent in the heat draw. Deciding who will be this year’s junior...
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