The first state surfing tournament of the Hawai’i High School Athletic Association will take place May 1 and 2 of next year at Ho’okipa Beach Park on Maui, a three-decade effort of Maui’s Kim Ball to finally make the official state sport of Hawai’i also a statewide high school sport. In the mid-1990s, Ball, now 72, started the sport in the Maui Interscholastic League as a school club activity. In 2014, the first sanctioned season as an official high school sport also happened on Maui.
