LATEST NEWS
CHIEF KEVIN SNOW'S RETIREMENT
On November 14th, generations of lifeguards, city officials, family and friends gathered together to celebrate the retirement of Chief Kevin Snow from the Laguna Beach Marine Safety Department, after 43 years of service. Kevin leaves the agency with a legacy of innovation and professionalism.
Three generations of leadership
Pictured above from left to right are, former lifeguard Chief Mark Klosterman, retiring Chief Kevin Snow, and current Chief Kai Bond. Chief Snow is holding a retirement gift of a sculpture of a set of rescue fins created by artist Casey Parlette, who was also a former Laguna Beach Lifeguard.
SUMMER 2024
The Foundation sponsored the entry of two relay teams and one individual racer in the California Gold lifeguard event on September 21st in Newport Beach. The race is 28 miles long and includes a 12 mile surf ski leg, a 2 mile beach run, a 2 mile swim, a 6 mile paddle board and an additional 2 mile run.
May 24th was the official christening of Laguna's new rescue boat " Wave Watch". The lifeguard crews have already completed their training and are ready to put Wave Watch into service at the start of summer.
Laguna Beach Ocean Lifeguard Foundation
Laguna Beach High School College Scholarship Winner 2024
Congratulations Bradley Beshear
WINTER 2024
Laguna's Claire Kelly is off to Australia in January with a team of other American lifeguards to compete against the world's best ocean lifeguards. Click on the link below to see the the recent article in StuNews written by author/publisher Tom Johnson about Claire's travels.
Christian
SUMMER 2023
The summer started out with the presentation of one of the Foundation's college scholarships to Laguna Beach High School grad Dylan Weeks.
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Our second scholarship went to Christian Brown, a first year guard attending Vanguard University
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The Foundation is sponsoring fifteen boys and girls this summer to participate in the Laguna Beach Junior Lifeguard program.
Dylan
The Foundation purchased two new racing paddle boards for the guards to use in their competitions. The boards arrived from Australia just in time for the California Regional competition where they were put to good use. Laguna guards placed first in the men's individual paddle race, first in the men's paddle relay and second in the women's paddle race. See the competition page for more.
SUMMER 2022
Summer is just getting started and we have already had a couple of nice south swells to make things interesting. Gavin Pike was the recipient of this year's Laguna Beach High School Scholarship presented by The Laguna Beach Ocean Lifeguard Foundation.
SUMMER 2021
This summer the Foundation again presented a college scholarship to a Laguna Beach Lifeguard graduating from Laguna Beach High School. Congratulations to Colton Weeks. Additional scholarships were awarded directly from the Foundation to four well deserving lifeguard college students. LBOLF also provided scholarships to ten young people to attend the Laguna Beach Junior Lifeguard program who's families were facing some financial hardships.
On July 24th, the California Surf Lifesaving Championships were held at Huntington State Beach. Laguna showed up with an outstanding competitive team and did very well placing 3rd overall, and coming in 1st place in the small department category. Photos of the event can be seen on the Gallery page of this website.
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Laguna Non-Profit Makes a Splash With New Paddle Boards
April 19,2019
The Laguna Beach Ocean Lifeguard Foundation has purchased three new lifeguard competition racing boards for the Laguna Beach Lifeguards. The boards are manufactured by " Bennett ", an Australian company that has been making surf lifesaving racing boards for decades. Â This acquisition will enable Laguna's competitors to have state of the art equipment for the various competitions they will participate in this summer, and for years to come.
One On One Training With The Co-Founders
February 24th 2019
Sunday February 24th we had a get together at the Newport Aquatic Center where some of the guards got some training in surf craft. Patrick Hemmens was there and gave some paddling tips before sending paddlers out on the surf skis. The surf ski is a tricky craft and as would be expected, those observing from the beach got the opportunity to see the underside of the skis from time to time. However everyone one caught on pretty quickly, and some of the guards seemed to really excel.
Kip Kennedy and Robert Brunswick took turns taking future rowers out in the dory and worked with them on form and timing. Kip spent some time on the beach going over the dory and what it takes to care for it and prep it for a race.
We had a 10'6" racing board available which all the guards were very familiar with. They took turns doing some sprints while waiting to paddle the other surf craft. Afterwards we had a BBQ of burgers and hotdogs right there on the beach. It ended up being a fun day with a fired up group of Laguna Beach Lifeguards. Check out the gallery section on the website for additional photos.