Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kelley Prebil has been swimming all her life. She loves the water. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is a member the Oak Streakers of Laguna Beach, the South End Rowing Club and the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association while competing for the San Mateo Masters. Since she picked up
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A Speedo streaker is an individual - male or female - who walks or runs nonchalantly through public areas dressed solely in swim briefs or jammers (for men) or a swimsuit that does not extend past the groin or shoulders (for women). These public areas are typically not traversed by individuals in swimming
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Located between the hometown of Surf City U.S.A. and the swimming grounds of the prolific Oak Streakers, Newport Beach, California is the site of many open water swims and the famous bodysurfing Wedge. Newport Beach also hosts its Film Festival that seeks to bring to Orange County the best of classic and
When Scott Zornig and the members of Oak Streakers the brought the new open water swimming regulations of the County of Los Angeles County to the attention of the global open water swimming community, there was domestic and international outrage from swimmers. Comments and suggestions on the Marathon Swimmers Forum ranged from "...that all of the open water
The fun-loving imagination of the Oak Streakers never ceases to bring joy and entertainment to their open water swimming lifestyle. Wilson is a water-logged volleyball that is used as their mascot. A washed-up volleyball also has precedence in Hollywood. A similar volleyball was used in the movie Cast Away starring Tom Hanks with roots in the open
A birthday swim is a special swim or workout set performed on one's birthday by swimmers, either in a pool or an open body of water. The birthday swims are typically difficult, long and/or unique, and often based on the same number as the age of the swimmer celebrating his or her birthday. For example in the pool, pods of adult swimmers do the same number
The Oak Streakers, an open water swimming pod based out of Laguna Beach, California, have a tradition of doing special or tough ocean workouts when one of their members has a birthday. Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association board member Lynn Kubasek issued a Wilson Workout for this weekend where the ocean swimmers have to swim out to the Laguna Beach
In the same holiday season where hundreds of pods of swimmers are doing their annual 100 x 100s in pools across the world, the Oak Streeters, a pod of open water swimmers in Laguna Beach, California, is set to do their 100 x 100s open water style this year. Instead of doing one hundred one hundreds in a flat-water, warm-water, chlorinated setting while
Howard Burns is a real estate administrator and open water swimmer who swims year-round with Oak Streakers of Laguna Beach, California. A frequent participant in the many ocean swims along the California coast, Burns was the 2011 Southern Pacific Masters Swimming Open Water Swimming Series winner in the men's 55-59 age division. He also recently penned
