When Lauren Zodl, 19, of Little Egg Harbor was a little girl, she and her brother would go three blocks from her grandparents’ house on Fairview Avenue in Beach Havento surf Holyoke Avenue. There was a standout surfer girl she used to watch named Corey DeStefano. DeStefano, now 25, noticed Zodl as well.

“She and her brother used to skateboard up the street, and I used to think, ‘They are going to be such good surfers,'” said DeStefano, who lived across the street from the Zodls’ grandparents.