LBHS Students Team Up with Quiksilver Surfers

Long Beach High School Students Make Armbands for Quicksilver 9/11 Paddle Out

WHAT:  In cooperation with the Quicksilver Pro New York Competition, Long Beach High School students will be doing their part to commemorate 9/11 by making black armbands. The armbands will be worn by Long Beach High School Surf Club members, Quicksilver Pro competitors, firefighters, police, lifeguards, and military as they take part in a 9/11 Memorial Paddle Out on Sunday morning during the Quicksilver Pro New York competition.

WHO: Long Beach High School Social Studies students

WHEN: Friday, Sept. 9, 8:40- 9:20 a.m.

WHERE: Long Beach High School, 322 Lagoon Drive West, Lido Beach, NY

Olympic Snowboarder Torah Bright Visits Long Beach High School

Quicksilver Pro New York Surfers to Join Her

WHAT: In conjunction with the Quicksilver Pro New York Competition, Olympic Snowboarder Torah Bright will be visiting Long Beach High School physical education classes to speak with students about professional sports. She will be joined by some of the professional surfers who are competing at the Quicksilver Pro New York competition in Long Beach.

WHO: Olympic Snowboarder Torah Bright and Quicksilver Pro New York Surfers (names to be determined after competition schedule is made for the day)

WHEN: Saturday, September 10, 11:00-11:30 a.m.

WHERE: Long Beach High School

 
Quicksilver Hurricane Cleanup

LBHS Surf Club and Quicksilver pitch in to clean storm-damaged

Magnolia Playground

WHAT: Long Beach High School Surf Club members will be joining forces with Quicksilver to help the City of Long Beach cleanup up the Magnolia Street Park—a children’s playground at the boardwalk in Long Beach that was damaged by Tropical storm Irene. Students are participating in this event as a living memorial to their Surf Club coach, teacher and community activist Daniel Bobis who died this summer in a tragic surfing accident of the coast of Indonesia. While the Quicksilver Pro New York Competition has been in Long Beach, the Surf Club also received VIP passes to the qualifying rounds, surfed with some of the pros, and will participate in a 9/11 Paddle Out.

WHO: Long Beach High School Surf Club Members joined by Quicksilver representatives

WHEN: Saturday, September 10, 11:00-11:30 a.m.

WHERE:  Long Beach Boardwalk at the south end of Magnolia Boulevard.

LBHS Surf Team Joins 9/11 Memorial Paddle Out at Quicksilver Competition

WHAT: Long Beach High School Surf Club members will be joining forces with over 300 Quicksilver Pro surfers, firefighters, police, lifeguards and members of the military for a 9/11 Memorial Paddle Out to honor those lost on 9/11. The participants will paddle out on the ocean in Long Beach and join together to form a memorial circle. Students are also participating in this event as a living memorial to their Surf Club coach, teacher and community activist Daniel Bobis who died this summer in a tragic surfing accident of the coast of Indonesia.

WHO: Long Beach High School Surf Club Members joined by Quicksilver  Pro surfers, firefighters, police, lifeguards and military.

WHEN: Sunday, September 11, 10 a.m.

WHERE:  Long Beach Ocean Park at the south end of National Boulevard in front of the Alegria Hotel.