Pro Surfing career, years of board shaping and role as mentor to many recognized.
Jesse Fernandez is entering the East Coast Surfing Hall of fame. It’s a recognition for a lifetime of achievement. His recent battle with cancer may have brought his many accomplishments into focus, but as Kip Tabb writes in this Outer Banks Voice article about Jesse, the accolades are well deserved.
A year ago, it was an open question whether Jesse Fernandez would make it to the end of the year. On January 8, 2020, he’s going to be inducted into the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame.
“I was knocking on death’s door. They gave me like eight months or a year,” Fernandez said about his diagnosis of stage four kidney cancer. “The surgery was ten months after we got the diagnosis. I’ve basically had a Hail Mary surgery. And we got a touchdown.”
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