Ifirst met Lukas Lastra at our favorite eating place in Cayucos, The Sea Shanty. He was a leader for their wait-staff and a pleasant young man. Before we returned home from our summer vacation, I learned he was going to be leading a trip to Greece with some of the Morro Bay High School water polo team. I mistakenly assumed he meant he’d be traveling with a group of athletic young men. Wrong.

Lukas was raised in the Santa Ynez Valley, playing water polo for Santa Ynez High School. When he attended Cuesta College, he also played on their water polo team. Five years ago, Morro Bay High School needed a coach for the junior varsity boys team. Based on his several years of experience Lukas was hired as their coach.

The next year, the JV girls team needed a coach, and Lukas accepted the job. He

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