{"id":202367,"date":"2026-03-03T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202367\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:18:13","slug":"prep-talk-edison-produces-the-sunset-league-surfers-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/202367\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: Edison produces the Sunset League surfers of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Life is going pretty good when you get to rise at 6 a.m. for surfing class and enjoy riding the waves before academic classes begin.<\/p>\n<p>For Edison High\u2019s Jesse Rapp and Ryan Kliem, they\u2019ve been paying attention. Each was selected the surfer of the year for boys and girls, respectively, in the Sunset Surf League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great way to start off the day,\u201d Rapp said.<\/p>\n<p>Classes take place at River Jetties Beach in Newport Beach. Edison won the league team title competing against surfers from Marina, Newport Harbor, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley and Newport Beach Pacifica Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Rapp also plays guitar in a school band. Winning the surfer of the year award \u201creally meant a lot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He played volleyball as a freshman, but he said of surfing, \u201cIt\u2019s great to connect with other schools and through surfing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Life is going pretty good when you get to rise at 6 a.m. for surfing class and enjoy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6054,27653,6735,588,93893,48,52,51,47,50,49,5434,5860,12965,1410,6310,93895,93896,93894,18065,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-202367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-class","9":"tag-edison","10":"tag-fountain-valley","11":"tag-huntington-beach","12":"tag-jesse-rapp","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-headlines","15":"tag-la-news","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","18":"tag-los-angeles-news","19":"tag-marina","20":"tag-newport-beach","21":"tag-newport-harbor","22":"tag-place","23":"tag-prep-talk","24":"tag-river-jetties-beach","25":"tag-school-band","26":"tag-sunset-league-surfer","27":"tag-surfer","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}