Rachel Tominaga carves out her place in the line-up [SURFING]
Tominaga’s sponsors include Body Glove, and Spyder and Roberts surfboards. Photo by Brian Morris (BrianMorrisPhotgraphy.viewbook.com) Rachel Tominaga and her father Scott started surfing at the same time. “I started surfing when I was eight at the Kanoa Surf Camp. I only surfed in the summer time because I hated to wear wetsuits. They were just too tight and restrictive,” said the 15-year-old Mira Costa sophomore. “Then, when I was 12, I caught the ‘Blue Crush.’ Tommy Ostendorf began pushing me to surf every day through the winter at Marine Street, just down from my house in Manhattan Beach,” she said. Her enthusiasm made her parents nervous. “I would be watching Rachel chasing the big outside sets,” said her mother Karen, “and it scared me. I would tell the lifeguard to keep an eye on her, but sometimes there was no lifeguard on duty. So I told my husband Scott to get a board and learn to surf. They went to the Becker Surf Shop and got two new boards.” Tominaga got a 6-foot hybrid and her father a 9-foot longboard. Now she has three Jake Kelly models from Roberts Surfboards — two 5-foot-3 speed shapes and a 5-foot-1 small wave board called “The Black Dump Truck” Tominaga surfed…
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