Celebrate California Surfing - Keep Surf in Surfing
Celebrate California Surfing • Keep Surf in Surfing 🏄🏽♂️🏄🏽♀️🇺🇸
We’re continuing the celebration of California Surfing Day and the road to LA28 at Lower Trestles by calling on USOPC decision makers to honor federal law’s “one sport, one NGB” mandate so our home-Olympic Games authentically represents surfers, lifts the whole sport, and strengthens our coastal communities.
USA Surfing has done the work and earned the surf community’s support to be the National Governing Body for Olympic surfing. U.S. Ski has not.
A growing group of California leaders are joining surfing’s pillars—@isasurfing, @wsl, 2021 and 2024 Olympic teammates, US Board Riders Clubs, Surf Industry Members Association, WSL Rookies of the Year, rising U.S. talents, ISA medalists—to say: keep surfing led by surfers.
Leaders sending a strong message to USOPC to stand up for surfers include:
• San Clemente City Council — host city for LA28 surfing at Lower Trestles
• Pat Burns, Mayor, @surfcityusa (on behalf of the Huntington Beach City Council)
• U.S. Rep. Mike Levin (representing Lowers), and CA colleagues Cong. Scott H. Peters, J. Luis Correa, Juan Vargas, Dave Min
• U.S. Senators Alex Padilla & Adam Schiff
• Katrina Foley, Vice Chair, Orange County Board of Supervisors, 5th District
• Esther C. Sanchez, Mayor, City of Oceanside
• Chris Pimentel, Mayor, City of El Segundo (home to WSL) & Drew Boyles, El Segundo City Councilmember
• Holly Mitchell, Supervisor, Los Angeles County
• Laurie Davies, Assemblywoman, District 74
LA28 is a home-Games opportunity for our sport and state. All of these leaders agree: we should not hand surfing’s future to an out-of-state winter sports group for their exclusive commercial gain at surfing, surfers and our economy’s expense. 🌊🇺🇸
