The Register’s Laylan Connelly will set feet and hands into cement at the Huntington Beach landmark, with fellow 2023 inductees Ítalo Ferreira and Fernando Aguerre.
– are worthy of being inducted with Connelly. Ferreira, a Brazilian, was the first man to win an Olympic gold medal in surfing. Aguerre, co-founder of La Jolla-based Reef Sandals, led the push to get surfing recognized as an Olympic sport.
Italo Ferreira of Brazil flies through the air as he surfs during his heat against Jack Robinson of Australia at the Rip Curl WSL Finals at Lower Trestles at San Onofre State Park in San Clemente on Thursday, September 8, 2022. Ferreira lost to Filipe Toledo of San Clemente in the final. Fernando Aguerre of La Jolla rides a wave while surfing at La Jolla Shores Beach fn Monday, May 10, 2021. Aguerre is president of the International Surfing Association and the man who for nearly three decades pushed to get the surfing included into the Olympics. So those guys share the Olympics thing, which is part of why Hall of Fame founder Aaron Pai wants them in.
“There are so many more people than just surfers, people who live all over the place, who love to read Laylan’s stories about the ocean and the coast. They enjoy reading her magic,” he said.Connelly, 44, who grew up in Lakewood, didn’t surf as a kid. And the first time she tried to surf – in her 20s, on a cold, crummy day in Newport Beach – the experience was “pretty disastrous.”
After landing a daily reporting job with the Register, she continued to write about beach events for the paper’s former OC Outdoors section. And, as the internet was a new tool for journalism, she also wrote a beach-centric blog.
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