Well, I’m willing to bet you haven’t had as gnarly of a week as Gavin Klein. Last Saturday, he was out surfing on his home island of Kauai when a tiger shark decided his Channel Islands FishBeard was looking a little, well… fishy… and tried to take a bite out of it. Gavin made it out of the encounter with nothing but a minor scrape from the shark’s sandpapery hide, and his thoroughly bitten surfboard. Not only that, but news travelled fast through the CI family grapevine – Gavin’s uncle told Rochelle Ballard, who told Britt Merrick, who reached out to Gavin to send him a new FishBeard!
Del Mar
Multisport athlete Isaac Coulapides has wrestled, snowboarded, played volleyball and served on the cheer squad at Mt. Carmel High School, but the Sabre Springs teen said surfing holds a special place in his heart.
“I love the whole feeling of being out on the water,” said Coulapides, 17. “I can sit out there and enjoy how peaceful it is and be part of a great community of guys who are all my best friends.”
On Thursday, Coulapides was making new memories and new friends as one of 11 youth participants in a two-day Junior Seau Foundation Adaptive Surfing Camp, hosted by the Challenged Athletes Foundation at Del Mar State Beach.