Cocoa Beach, FL – Surf’s up at the 23rd Annual Cocoa Beach Surf Company NKF PRO-AM Surfing Festival taking place Labor Day Weekend, August 29 through September 1, at Shepard Park, located at the end of S.R. 520, Cocoa Beach Surfers and beach-goers alike will enjoy the festivities while helping to raise funds to fight kidney disease.
Professional and amateur surfers will hit the waves beginning Saturday, August 30. Competitions include the $5000 Steve Casanova Esq.Men’s Pro presented by longtime surfer and Melboune attorney Steve Casanova, Esq, the Women’s Pro sponsored by Angel Eyewear, Junior Men’s Pro, Men’s Pro Longboard, and the Male and Female Tandem Pro. Surfing continues throughout the weekend with amateur and professional finals taking place on Labor Day.
Stop by and see some Dialysis patients and transplant recipients in action as they hit the surf and ride the waves! These miracles of life prove the successes of organ transplantation and the importance of becoming an organ donor. Transplant recipients attending include the Repasky family from Pittsburgh, a multiple donor/recipient family, Jay Smith from Savannah, Georgia, and Katie Castonguay from the west coast of Florida.
Festival goers can enjoy food, bands, bikini contest, massages on the beach, poster signings, BMX and skate demonstrations, register for a chance to win a 1954 Chevy Show Truck, a surf movie in the park Saturday evening, free surf lessons from Cocoa Beach Surf Company Surf School, and much more.
For more information on the NKF Pro-Am Surfing Festival call (407) 894-7325 or visit us online at www.nkfsurf.com. The National Kidney Foundation is dedicated to preventing kidney and urinary tract diseases, improving the health and well being of individuals and families affected by these diseases and increasing the availability of all organs for transplantation.
Surf Festival Highlights
- Contest location: Alan Shepard Park at the end of S.R. 520, Cocoa Beach
- Featuring the Steve Casanova Men’s $5,000 Pro, Angel Eyewear Women’s Pro, Space Coast Credit Union Luke Mackin Junior Pro, Coconuts Women’s Longboard pro, and the Anarchy Eyewear/Barry Weisner Men’s Pro Longboard
- 29 Amateur Divisions covering an age range of 4 to 80
- Win a show quality 1954 Chevy Surf Truck equipped with a Chevy Turbo engine
- The Surf Festival highlights the success of all transplant recipients and will feature six transplant recipients participating and available for media interviews
- For the first time there will be an ITSA 6 star Tandem Competition Featuring Tandem champions from around the world competing for the $6,000 prize
- Cocoa Beach’s Party of the Year, the Taste of Brevard & Silent Auction presented by the Halifax Hospital Transplant Center and Regions Bank will be at the Radisson at the Port August 31
- Free poster signings each day in the demo tent
- Register to win one of many surfboards given away on site and at the auction
- Mar Chiquita Bikini Contests 4 pm daily at the host restaurant the World Famous “Sandbar”
- Capri Sun will feature the 12ft vertical half pipe with pro skateboarders, inline skaters, and BMX riders all weekend
- Live music each day at the “SandBar” with Drink specials
- Professional and Amateur Surfing Divisions starting Saturday morning at 8 am
- Registration, Press and Sponsor Party Friday evening, 6PM to 10PM at the Cocoa Beach Surfing Company
- Cocoa Beach Surf Company Surf School demonstrations and lessons on the beach
- All Pro and Amateur and Division Finals Monday
- All proceeds benefit the National Kidney Foundation of Florida, Inc.
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