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ICYMI: Long Island's Only Surf Team Competes Regionally
Long Beach High School surfing coach Cliff Skudin hopes the "exposure" will lead other schools to add the outdoor sport to their curriculum.
LONG BEACH, NY — Students at Long Beach High School are the only ones on Long Island who can take surfing as a program.
Started by late surfing teacher Danny Bobis more than a decade ago, they have been using the signature waves of Long Beach as part of their extracurricular activities.
"We're hoping that the exposure will [help] others to start teams in other schools that have surfers," Cliff Skudin, coach of the Long Beach High School surf team, told Patch.
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