Surfing will soon be part of Hawaii high school athletic competition

Surfing will soon be part of Hawaii high school athletic competition

Honolulu — U.S. state of Hawaii has announced its plan of becoming the first state having the summer beach sport of surfing as part of its high schools athletic competition. Hawaii, known to be the place where modern surfing originated, will offer an official athletic and inter-school surfing competition among high schools and will be called sport of island kings.

All the estimated 50,000 high school students among Hawaii’s 46 public high schools will be qualified to ride the famous surfing waves in Hawaii at the onset of the extramural sports competition at spring of year 2013. The undertaking will be entirely paid out from private funds. The transition plan would not be that hard since surfing is already a prominent sport in the U.S. state and for about 4 years running already, there are numerous surf clubs in some public high schools.

The plan would benefit those who don’t participate in sports like volleyball and football, motivating others to try surfing. The plan was announced Monday by Neil Abercrombie, governor of Hawaii, the state’s Department of Education, Education Board and Carissa Moore, a pro surfer. The cost estimate indicated in the plan is about $150,000 per year and 33% of the funding was already secured through private contributions. The goal is to finally reach the target amount and all should come from outside sources.

Posted by Andre Monohan on Thursday October 06 2011, 7:25 AM EST. Ref: CNN. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0