A bright spot in a dark time for a North Shore town — that’s how Waialua students felt making history as the first-ever girls’ state champions in surfing.
The Waialua High and Intermediate School Surf Team won the shortboard and longboard divisions at the Hawaiʻi High School Athletic Association Surfing State Championship earlier this month.
It comes as the community is still recovering from devastating flooding caused by back-to-back Kona low storms…