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Event Information:
The
East Coast Surfing Championships (ECSC)
is an annual surfing contest held in
Virginia Beach, Virginia, and is one
of the United States Surfing
Federation’s major amateur events.
The ECSC stretches over a four day
period every year in late August at
the Virginia Beach Oceanfront. The
original inspiration for the East
Coast Surfing Championships came
from Long Island, New York in the
summer of 1962 when a group of teens
held a beach and surf party. Since
its official establishment in
Virginia Beach in 1963, the ECSC has
grown to be the second-longest
running surfing contest in the
world.
The
ECSC is a place not only for
professional surfers, but for
amateur surfers as well, to ride and
contend for cash prizes totaling
close to $40,000 and championship
titles. Men’s and women’s surfing
events are held throughout the week,
plus other beach sporting events
such as volleyball, skateboarding,
skimboarding, a 5k Oceanfront run,
and a swimsuit competition. A new
event called the Beach Bum Classic
was introduced for the first time in
2007. The Beach Bum Classic,
organized and sponsored by Wareing’s
Gym in Virginia Beach, is a
triathlon-type event including a one
mile sand run, a three mile bike
race on beach cruisers, and a half
mile surfboard paddling race.
A
reported spectator count of over
100,000 people show up to watch the
events during the day, and at night,
the Virginia Beach boardwalk fills
with people for free concerts on the
beach. Bands and musicians include
national, regional, and local
talents. The ECSC is planned,
organized, and employed by the
Virginia Beach Jaycees, a chapter of
a nationwide volunteer organization,
the United States Jaycees. Media
press and coverage includes ESPN,
The Washington Post, and USA Today.
Virginia Beach has many distinctive
communities and neighborhoods within
its boundaries, including: Acredale,
Aragona Village, Arrowhead,
Chesapeake Beach, Bay Colony,
Brigadoon, Great Neck, Kings Grant,
Alanton, Green Run, Buckner Farms,
Bayside, Blackwater, Brighton on the
Bay, Carolanne Farm, College Park,
Glenwood, Croatan Beach, Church
Point, Greenwich, the North End,
Kempsville, Landstown, London
Bridge, Lynnhaven, Little Neck,
Middle Plantation, Munden, Oceana,
Ocean Lakes, Ocean Park, Pembroke
Manor, Pembroke Meadows,Indian
Lakes, Pembroke Shores, Hilltop,
Pine Meadows, Princess Anne, Pungo,
Indian River Plantation, Salem,
Redwing, Sandbridge, Seatack,
Shadowlawn, Thalia, Thalia Shores,
Thoroughgood, Windsor Woods,
Witchduck Point, Oceanfront, and
Magic Hollow.
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