It\u2019s time to “hang loose,” grab some friends, pick up some paddles and enjoy a sun-kissed day along Mission Bay.\u00a0The Wells Fargo Outrigger Challenge & Luau returns to Crown Point Shores on Saturday, April 28.\u00a0\u00a0 This eleventh annual installment serves as a fundraiser for the nonprofit Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl, a 501(c)(3) organization that helps generate tourism, exposure, economic benefit and civic pride for San Diego and its residents by producing the nation\u2019s most exciting college football bowl game and festival of events. Outrigger teams are coed and consist of five people, at least two of whom must be women.\u00a0 An outrigger canoe and steersperson are provided on event day, courtesy of the Hanohano Outrigger Canoe Club. The course is 200 meters and each team is guaranteed at least two races. About 80 teams are expected to participate. The luau that follows features food from Da Kine\u2019s Plate Lunches and beverages from Kona Brewing Co. and Dr Pepper TEN. The entry fee is $225.\u00a0Each team member receives a T-shirt, beverages and a ticket to the luau.\u00a0Individual luau-only tickets are $20.\u00a0Raffle tickets also will be sold with the grand prize being round-trip air transportation for two to Hawaii, courtesy of Hawaiian Airlines. Registration opens at 8 a.m., race instruction at 8:30 a.m., and outrigger competition begins at 9 a.m.\u00a0The luau beins at noon.\u00a0 Sponsors of the event include Wells Fargo, Bridgepoint Education, KPRI 102.1 FM, XX 1090, Cox Communications, San Diego Business Journal, Navy Dispatch, Think Blue San Diego and San Diego CityBeat. For information and entries, visit www.BridgepointEducationHolidayBowl.com, or call (619) 283-5808.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s time to “hang loose,” grab some friends, pick up some paddles and enjoy a sun-kissed day along Mission Bay.\u00a0The Wells Fargo Outrigger Challenge & Luau returns to Crown Point Shores on Saturday, April 28.\u00a0\u00a0 This eleventh annual installment serves as a fundraiser for the nonprofit Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl, a 501(c)(3) organization that helps […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":293008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"Outrigger Challenge & Luau returns for 11th Mission Bay run","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11551,11553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}