Among the benefits of charity tournaments is not only the opportunity for average athletes to play with pros, but also to play with emerging talents. In the early 1970s, the talk of charity tournaments in Palos Verdes was a skinny 12-year-old named Tracey Austin.
While most South Bay residents stayed indoors to avoid the cold winds during recent storms, some local athletes took advantage of the conditions to practice the sport they love.
Reports from two witnesses of a windsurfer off of First Street in Manhattan Beach, struggling in 10-foot swells and winds gusting at 40 miles per hour, led to a two-hour search by Los Angeles County lifeguards on Sunday morning.
A group of high school students – clad in orange sweatpants, funky wigs and plastic safety glasses – huddled excitedly around a blue-and-orange, wheeled structure made of metal and wires.