Ten for 10: Depth and dedication help Mira Costa surfers ride a decade-long streak of success
The Mira Costa surf team won its 10th consecutive league title this season, and is headed to nationals next weekend. Photos by Steve Gaffney There was a time last fall when Dickie O’Reilly thought it would be a typical South Bay high school surf season. Then the storms came. “We started in early October, and we went through until Christmas Break without any hiccups at all,” said O’Reilly, league director of the South Bay Scholastic Surfing Association. “We were able to run contests every week, and I thought the season was on track to finish in late March or early April like normal. But then we got into early January. We’ve never had as many delays or rescheduled contests.” Megan Seth goes off the lip in Costa’s victory over South High. The clean conditions that characterized that match wouldn’t last, with wild weather throwing the year’s schedule into chaos. An assembly line of powerful storms delivered surf more appropriate for the South Bay Big Wave Challenge than a contest with kids barely into their teens. Unrelenting rainfall would create incredible sandbars, then overwhelm them. Spots that were once firing turned into a minefield of closeouts. And then came a long flat spell…
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