Retirement doesn't stop CSUEB prof from extreme sea kayaking
Eric Soares at Miramar Beach ( by Andy Cominos)
- December 26, 2011 5:00am
When professors retire, how do they fill their free time from not having to grade papers and instruct eager minds?
The San Jose Mercury News must have had the same question when reporter L.J. Anderson profiled ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ Professor Emeritus Eric Soares and his sea kayaking adventures. In his article, Anderson wrote, “By day Eric Soares was, as he described it, a 'mild-mannered marketing professor' teaching business communications at ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥. But during his off-time, Soares was an ocean adventurer, crashing through coastline surf in his sea kayak…”
Soares was first attracted to sea kayaking while he was a graduate student in Santa Barbara. He has published three marketing books and another called Extreme Sea Kayaking (Ragged Mountain Press, 1999). He is founder of the Tsunami Rangers ocean kayaking team, featured on national television.
Read more about Soares’ kayaking adventures in the San Jose Mercury News article,
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