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Published May 06, 2009, 12:00 AM

Photo Gallery: Middle schoolers learn to surf at Morgan Park Middle School


Bryce Hair, 12, a sixth-grader at Morgan Park Middle School, practices balancing on a long surfing board as it starts to come out from under him, during the Morgan Park Surf Club Tuesday afternoon. (Amanda Hansmeyer / ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)

  • Bryce Hair, 12, a sixth-grader at Morgan Park Middle School, practices balancing on a long surfing board as it starts to come out from under him, during the Morgan Park Surf Club Tuesday afternoon. (Amanda Hansmeyer / ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
  • Eighth grader Cory Dieryck, 14, gets help putting on a wet suit from Richard McNabney before the Morgan Park Surf Club got in the water Tuesday afternoon. McNabney is a special education paraprofessional, and the surf club’s advisor. (Amanda Hansmeyer / ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
  • Seventh-grader Kevin Potter, 13, balances on a long surf board, while practicing "popping up" onto it, during the Morgan Park surf club Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday was the last day the club got in the water. They are celebrating their last meeting with a luau. (Amanda Hansmeyer / ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
  • Seventh-grader Dylan Saylor (center), 13, paddles towards Cole Holstrom who was helping out, during the Morgan Park Surf Club at Morgan Park Middle School Tuesday afternoon. Holstrom is an assistant at the school and was helping out by giving the students a good push while they practiced surfing. (Amanda Hansmeyer / ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
  • Morgan Park sixth-grader Algin Goodsky, 11, paddles on a long surf board during the Morgan Park Surf Club’s meeting at Morgan Park Middle School Tuesday afternoon. The group was able to practice paddling and “popping up” on the board, or getting into a standing position, on both a long and a short board. (Amanda Hansmeyer / ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)
  • The Morgan Park Surf Club swam in the water for the last time Tuesday afternoon. Their next and last meeting will be a luau. Members of the group do the Hawaiian "hang loose" hand symbol. (Amanda Hansmeyer / ahansmeyer@duluthnews.com)