Noah DeSimone, 17, of Beach Haven West just won the ESA Jr. Men’s East Coast title. (Photo by Mike Vuocolo/ESA)
In 2010, Surf City’s Conor Willem came home from the 43rd annual East Coast Surfing Association Eastern Championships with the Men’s title. The next year, at the age of 20, he and his father, local legend Bill Willem, 58 at the time, went down and took Men’s and Legends respectively in absolutely giant Atlantic surf. It was a huge milestone in LBI surfing but was not soon to be replicated.
The Island community is riding high again as Noah DeSimone of Beach Haven West returned from the 59th annual Easterns…
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