The 2020 Jetty Coquina Jam was strange. Masks on the beach was just the start. From the sanitizing of jerseys between heats to the strange layout of the sponsors, it was a surf contest like no one had ever seen, and one of the only beach events to happen on LBI last year.

But it was necessary to make the 12th annual Coquina Jam, the annual all-female surf contest that puts the spotlight on women of all ages by locally-based lifestyle apparel company Jetty, happen and happen safely.