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Upper Trestles Set for NSL High School Cup Championships

NSL — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:04:28 +0000

Dates: June 12-13, 2010

Location: Upper Trestles, San Onofre State Beach, CA

About:

The best high school surf teams in the country will meet at Upper Trestles, CA this weekend June 12-13 for the National Surf League (NSL) High School Cup Championships.

Using the National Surf League’s innovative “Game” team format, the High School Cup will feature some of the progressive amateur surfing action ever seen, along with all the drama, strategy and spectator excitement the “Game” format is known for.

The NSL’s highly qualified crew of professional surfers Austin Ware, Micah Byrne, Kyle Knox and CT Taylor will judge the Games.

Legendary professional surfer Brad Gerlach will call the play-by-play action on the mic along with professional surfer Zachary Keenan providing analysis.

Come down and check out all the action and see why the NSL High School Cup is the most anticipated event of the year these for these highly talented scholastic surf teams.

Match-ups and Game Times:

Saturday, June 11, 2010:

10:00AM – Game #1
- Newport Harbor High (wild-card) vs. Satellite High (alternate replacement – Carlsbad High)
12:10PM – Game #2
- Mira Costa High vs. Huntington Beach High
2:20PM – Game #3
- San Dieguito Academy vs. Malibu High
4:30PM – Game #4
- Santa Cruz High vs Ocean City High (alternate replacement – San Clemente High)

Sunday, June 12, 2010:

10:00 AM – Semi-Final #1
- Game #1 winner vs. Game #2 winner
12:10 PM – Semi-Final #2
- Game #3 winner vs. Game #4 winner
2:45 PM – FINAL

About Upper Trestles:
The Trestles surf area is easily one of the most exposed and consistent surf spots in Southern California, particularly in the summer months. Upper Trestles is a cobblestone and sand bottom point break with mostly rights and occasional lefts. Its a high-performance wave with multiple take-off spots – perfect for coaches to spread their team out to maximize wave opportunity.

About San Onofre State Park - Please click here to read important message from the California State Parks about San Onofre State Beach and its fragile resources.

Directions and Parking:

From interstate 5 southbound – Exit Christianitos Rd, turn left and go over freeway. Left at next stop sign. Park along the street or pay $10 to park in Upper Trestles parking lot next to Carls Jr.

From interstate 5 northbound – Exit Christianitos Rd, turn right off freeway, Left at next stop sign. Park along the street or pay $10 to park in Upper Trestles parking lot next to Carls Jr.

View Upper Trestles Parking in a larger map

The Walk:

After parking, walk across the freeway overpass and cross street and enter walking trail to Trestles. Follow the signs down the trail to Upper Trestles. Expect about a 15-20 minute walk. (click image to enlarge)

Ocean City Wins High School Cup NJ Regional

NSL — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:57:59 +0000

After an extended 5-day waiting period to allow for the best possible surf and weather conditions, The NSL High School Cup was greeted with excellent 2-3 foot offshore peaks at 1^st street in Ocean City, New Jersey.

Participating High Schools Manasquan, Southern Regional, Middle Township and three-time defending regional champion Ocean City battled in some of the closest Games in NSL history.

Ocean City High School beat Southern Regional High School by just 1.9 points in the closely fought first semi-final, despite an 8.7 score from Southern Regional’s Conner Willem in the bottom of the third period.

The second semi-final saw Middle Township High take down Manasquan High in low-scoring nail-bitter with Middle Township winning by just 0.45 points, one of the slimmest margins of victory in NSL history.

This set up a rematch of last year’s regional final between the Middle Township High Panthers and the defending regional champion Ocean City High Red Raiders. Middle Township won the coin toss and decided to surf in the bottom half of each period, sending Ocean City to the water first in the waist to chest high surf. Ocean City High alumni and assistant coach Rob Kelly had his team fired up, but the team was only able to drop a 12.7 total period score.

Middle Township, lead by Mike Ciramella sensing the opportunity to build a lead opened the bottom of the first with a series of powerful backhand snaps from the sophomore, scoring a 6.7, cutting into Ocean City’s total first period score with just one wave. However, the other three Middle Township starters failed to find waves with scoring opportunity and the Panthers finished trailing by a half a point.

In the top of the second, Ocean City struggled with positioning for the high scoring opportunities until Sean Santiago found a clean right-hander and performed a series of clean re-entries earning a 6.7 wave score improving their period score to 15.5.

Middle Township came back again with Mike Ciramella scoring 6.3 and Austin King dropping a sold score, however the team failed to keep pace with a total period score of 13.3.

Ocean City High sent out its seniors for the top of the third with Matt Rink and Sean Santiago both dropping solid scores for the team. In the final minutes, Coaches Mark Miedema and Rob Kelly substituted in Zack Greaser and helped contribute to a final period score of 14.3 and a final Game score of 42.5. The Red Raiders looked confident in their dugout with a 17-point lead going into the Panthers half of the final period.

Middle Township went right to work for their final period with Mike Ciramella once again putting a big score on the board on a wedging right-hander, he executed a lightning fast power snap straight into a huge blow-tail re-entry on the closeout section. The combination earned Ciramella an 8.3 and the Game’s Most Radical Maneuver. This left the other three Panther starters needing just 3 point scores each to take the win.

Ocean City High’s dugout was in disbelief that Middle Township needed such small scores to take the title away. Middle ‘s Austin King thickened the plot with a 3.5 score, meaning the other two players needed to get a 2.6 each. Middle Township coach Nicole Roppoli was gripping her radio pleading with the water coach to help position the team into higher scoring waves. However, Middle Township was not able to close the gap in the end and Ocean City High School won their fourth consecutive regional title.

“It was a true team effort today”, said assistant coach Rob Kelly. “Middle Township was very talented, but I think our experience paid off today with a touch of luck”.

Ocean City High School will now move on the NSL High School Cup National Championships at Upper Trestles on June 12^thand 13^th.

The NSL High School Cup next travels to D-Street, Encinitas on May 24^th and 25^th for the San Diego Regional Championship.

A special thanks goes out to the City of Ocean City, Nick Bricker, Ed Morgan at Aloha Awnings, Keith Wescott, and Tom Sullivan

Final Game Box Score:

	P1	P2	P3	Final
Ocean City High School	12.7	15.5	14.3	42.5
Middle Township High School	12.2	13.3	15	40.5

Most Valuable Player (MVP) – Mike Ciramella, Middle Township High School

Most Radical Maneuver (MRM) – Mike Ciramella, Middle Township High School (Power snap to blow-tail, scoring 8.7)

2010 NSL High School Cup Kicks Off In Florida

NSL — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:55:48 +0000

The National Surf League kicked off the 5^th edition of its high school team surfing tournament featuring “The Game” format on April 27, 2010 with the Central Florida Regional at Sebastian Inlet in small, but clean “wedging” waves at 1^st peak.

In the final Game, it came down to a re-match of last year’s regional final between The Cocoa Beach High School Minutemen coached by John Cangianella and Nick Piette and The Satellite High School Scorpions coached by George Seguna and professional surfer Travis Beckman.

At the start of regulation time in the top of the first period, a flurry of waves hit 1^st peak and the Satellite High Scorpions full took advantage with Chris Tucker and Peter Polanski posting wave scores of 8 and 7.5 respectively with the Scorpions posting a 22.5 total 1^st period score.

Cocoa Beach answered back in the bottom of the opening period with solid scoring rides from all four starters including a 6.5 from Forest Johnson. The Minutemen finished the first period down 2 points with a total of 20.5.

Satellite High came out in the top of the second on fire with all players scoring 5 pts and above with Peter Polanski earning a 7.8 for a big front side tail blast that won him the Most Radical Maneuver Award. The Scorpions total 2^nd period score of 25.8 was the highest of the entire event.

Unfortunately for Cocoa Beach High, the incoming tide slowed the waves considerably, which perhaps left coaches Cangianella and Piette second-guessing their decision after winning coin toss to surf in the bottom half of each period. With not many waves on offer, Cocoa Beach was forced to burn through their remaining 3 of 5 timeouts and the team was only able to post a 13.7 total period score.

With the Game all but decided after the second period, Satellite posted average scores in the dwindling surf in the third period. But, it was enough to seal the victory for the third year in a row.

Satellite High School will now advance to the NSL High School Cup National Championship to be held June 12-13, 2010 at Upper Trestles in Southern California.

The National Surf League would like to thank Sebastian Inlet State Park, Terry O’Toole, CT Taylor, CJ and Damien Hobgood, participating high schools, parents, coaches and the local community for supporting high school surfing.

Final Game Box Score:

P1 P2 P3 Final

Satellite High School 22.5 25.8 18.9 67.2

Cocoa Beach High School 20.5 13.7 16.3 50.5

Most Valuable Player (MVP) – Chad Ellingham, Satellite High School

Most Radical Maneuver (MRM) – Peter Polanski, Satellite High School (Big front side blow tail)

All photos: Nate Adams / ESM

Encinitas Surf Festival presents “The Girls Surf Game”

NSL — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:18:07 +0000

The Encinitas Surf Festival presents "The Girls Surf Game"

For the first time, the National Surf League's "Game" format will be used for all-female high school surf teams from the North San Diego county area.

Participating will be San Dieguito Academy, Carlsbad High School, Torrey Pines High School and Vista High School.

Schedule:

9AM – Game #1: San Dieguito Academy vs. Vista High

11AM – Game #2: Carlsbad High vs. Torrey Pines High School

1PM – Final: Game #1 winner vs. Game #2 winner

A special thanks to the Carlsbad, Vista, and Encinitas Firefighters Associations as well as the following companies support to help make the event happen: Surfinfire (Jon Peterson), Nixon, Boardworks, Liquid Force, Hansen's Surf Shop, Quiksilver, Pipe's Cafe, Moonlight Concessions stand and FUEL TV.

2009 Red Bull Riders Cup: Blow By Blow Final Video

NSL — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:04:25 +0000

Watch Mira Costa High School and San Dieguito Academy go toe to toe from opening period through overtime in the 2009 Red Bull Riders Cup National Championship Finals at Upper Trestles.

Jersey Shore’s Other Side Explored in MTV2 Surfing Show

NSL — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:01:23 +0000

Check out this write-up in the Wall Street Journal TV Blog about Season 2 of School of Surf on MTV2:

By Steven Kurutz via WSJ Blogs

A New Jersey surfer ready to dive into the icy winter waves. While MTV’s new reality show, “Jersey Shore,” has drawn much media attention (and criticism), another series chronicling East Coast beach life quietly premiered this week. “School of Surf” follows a group of high school surfers from Ocean City, N.J. as they hunt for elusive waves and advance through a surfing contest that takes them to California.

Click Here to continue reading and exclusive sneak preview of Episode # 2 of School of Surf

School of Surf Season Two on MTV2

NSL — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:16:50 +0000

School of Surf – Season Two debuts Monday, December 7th at 9am on MTV2. The six-part series follows two high school surf teams as they compete and travel to the Red Bull Riders Cup National Championship. One is from Malibu High School, situated in a classic California surf town with perfect waves, sunshine year ’round, and a vibrant surf scene. The other is from the OC of the East – Ocean City, New Jersey, with its freezing winters, crowded summers and unpredictable waves. The two towns couldn’t be any more different. But the thing the two teams share is the dream of becoming pro surfers and balancing their lives with an obsession with waves. But this isn’t another reality show, this is real life.

The six episode series airs every Monday at 9am on MTV2. Set your DVR (or VCR), call in sick, or skip 1st period but don't miss it!

Watch All School of Surf Season Two Episodes on MTV2.COM

Check out School Of Surf Season One Here

2009 Red Bull Riders Cup Championship Video

NSL — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:41:47 +0000

Video from the 2009 Red Bull Riders Cup National Championship Semi-Final and Final Games held at Upper Trestles.

Semi #1 – Mira Costa High School defeats Newport Harbor High School.

Semi #2 – San San Dieguito Academy defeats Malibu High School.

The nail-biting final was decided in overtime with Mira Costa High edging out San Dieguito to take the national title.

2009 Red Bull Riders Cup: Final

NSL — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:03:25 +0000

Epic showdown between Mira Costa High School and San Dieguito Academy in the final game at Upper Trestles. The game ended in overtime with Mira Costa High taking the 2009 Red Bull Riders Cup National title.

America’s Got Talent

NSL — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:37:25 +0000

By: Jake Howard, ESPN

High school was an awkward time. I hoped I'd outgrown it, but then I went to the beach this weekend and realized that I'm more of an insecure, self-conscious kook than ever. With the Red Bull Riders Cup National Championships descending upon Trestles this weekend—my regular haunt—high school surf teams from around the country poured onto the sand, set up their little cliques, paddled out, and sadly, most every kid surfed better than me—with the exception of the one girl who pearled after every top turn, I reckon I'd barely beat her out.

Why the self-loathing you ask? Well, for one, it's that the level of a lot of high school-aged surfers never ceases to amaze me. READ MORE…