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2018 VISSLA CENTRAL COAST PRO PRES. BY SLIMES TO LIGHT UP AVOCA TOMORROW.

2018 VISSLA CENTRAL COAST PRO PRES. BY SLIMES TO LIGHT UP AVOCA TOMORROW.

06/03/2018, New South Wales, Surfing, Surfing NSW, Article # 25988816
 
 

2018 VISSLA CENTRAL COAST PRO PRES. BY SLIMES TO LIGHT UP AVOCA TOMORROW.

 
ABOVE: Former Central Coast Pro runner-up and local Central Coast resident Shane Holmes (Shelly Beach) will be looking to post another solid result on the Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series when the Vissla Central Coast Pro pres. by Slimes Boardstore kicks off. 
MANDATORY IMAGE CREDITS: Ethan Smith / Surfing NSW
 
KEY POINTS
  • Vissla Central Coast Pro pres. by Slimes Boardstore to kick off at Avoca tomorrow. 
  • Over 200 male and female surfers will compete in the event, which will see over 18 different countries represented in both divisions.
  • DOWNLOAD HIGH RES IMAGES HERE 
 
SYDNEY (Tuesday, March 6, 2018): The Vissla Central Coast Pro pres. by Slimes Boardstore will form the final event on the Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series, when the competition hits Avoca tomorrow.
 
The elite five-day World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) 1,000 rated competition will take place from 7 –11 March 2018.
 
Over 150 male and female surfers will compete in the event, which will see over 15 different countries represented in both divisions.
 
Member for Terrigal Adam Crouch said the event was a firm favourite on the Central Coast’s summer sports calendar.
 
“The Central Coast Pro showcases our stunning region to hundreds of surfers and fans from around the world, and I’m delighted to welcome them back to the coast for a third consecutive year,” Mr Crouch said.
 
“As part of the NSW Pro Surf Series, this event provides a significant boost to local businesses and accommodation providers and I’m looking forward to seeing Avoca Beach packed with competitors and spectators in March.”
 
Previous event champions include CT surfer and local Adrian Buchan, former World Championship Tour surfer Justine Dupont (France) and former US Open of Surfing champion Hiroto Ohhara (Japan).
 
Local Central Coast event entrants include Lennox Chell (Avoca), Caleb Tancred (Avoca), Shane Holmes (Shelly Beach), Troy and Jamie Skillin (Norah Head), Kirra-Belle Olsson (Avoca) and Molly Picklum (Shelly Beach).
 
Event dates and locations:
Event One: Carve Pro
Location: Maroubra Beach
Date: January 18th – 21st, 2018
 
Event Two: Mothernest Tweed Coast Pro
Location: Cabarita Beach
Date: January 31st – February 4th, 2018
 
Event Three: Vissla Great Lakes Pro pres. by D'Blanc
Location: Boomerang Beach
Date: February 7th – 11th, 2018
 
Event Four: Vissla Central Coast Pro pres. by Slimes Boardstore
Location: Avoca Beach
Date: March 7th – 11th, 2018
 
The Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series was developed for Australian and international surfers to gain ranking points and prize money on the WSL Qualifying Series. The Series also creates a NSW coastal road trip for all to explore the variety of waves, visit local communities and enjoy NSW surfing culture.
 
The 2018 NSW Pro Surf Series will be proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. The series will also be proudly supported by Vissla, Randwick City Council, Central Coast Council, Destination Tweed, Mid Coast Council and Tourism, NBN, Toyota, Coastalwatch, World Surf League and Surfing NSW.


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TANCRED AND FULTON TAKE TOP HONOURS AT KEY SUN ZINKE SYDNEY PRO JUNIOR.

TANCRED AND FULTON TAKE TOP HONOURS AT KEY SUN ZINKE SYDNEY PRO JUNIOR.

25/02/2018, New South Wales, Surfing, Surfing NSW, Article # 25901373
 
 

TANCRED AND FULTON TAKE TOP HONOURS AT KEY SUN ZINKE SYDNEY PRO JUNIOR. 

 
 
ABOVE: Caleb Tancred (Avoca, NSW) and Sophia Fulton (Mollymook, NSW) have taken top honours at the Key Sun Zinke Sydney Pro Junior following an action packed day filled with high scores and tricky conditions.
MANDATORY IMAGE CREDITS:  Ethan Smith / Surfing NSW
 
KEY POINTS 
  • Caleb Tancred and Sophia Fulton take victory at the Key Sun Zinke Sydney Pro Junior. 
  • Vissla Sydney Surf Pro QS6,000 divisions to get underway tomorrow. 
  • DOWNLOAD HIGH RES IMAGES HERE
 
MANLY BEACH, SYDNEY (Sunday, February 25, 2018): Caleb Tancred (Avoca, NSW) and Sophia Fulton (Mollymook, NSW) have taken top honours at the Key Sun Zinke Sydney Pro Junior following an action-packed day filled with high scores and tricky conditions.
 
Having not had a podium finish for roughly three-years, Caleb Tancred (Avoca, NSW) was able to get the monkey off his back by taking out the Men’s division in the Key Sun Zinke Sydney Pro Junior. In what was an action-packed final filled with torrential rain and power outages, Tancred was able to gain the upper hand thanks to posting an excellent 8.50 wave score. Tancred then backed up his position in the top spot thanks to a 8.75 score and was able to comfortably claim the victory.
 
“It was my goal to win a Pro Junior event this year and hopefully finish in the top four to qualify for the World Juniors,” said Tancred. “With all the rain and the power blacking out, I wasn’t sure if I was in first, second or third. I knew all guys in this final could have got decent scores, so I was flying blind a little bit. I haven’t been on the podium for three years or so, so to get this is definitely a great feeling.”
 
Spending the majority of the final in the fourth spot, Kyuss King (Byron Bay, NSW) managed to leapfrog his way straight into the runner-up position thanks to an impressive 8.20 wave score in the dying five minutes. King looked on point throughout the duration of the entire event, consistently posting excellent scores over his entire campaign.
 
“I feel quite good with this result,” said King. “I felt like a had a few good heats so I couldn’t be happier. My gameplan in that final was to strictly wait for a wave that was good enough to win, so I stuck to my guns and managed to get that one 8.20, but I couldn’t find the backup.”
 
Surfing with a maturity beyond her years, Sophia Fulton (Mollymook, NSW) saved one of her best performances to claim top honours. Fulton executed a barrage of mammoth turns to finish the heat with an impressive 15.50 two-wave heat total and take the victory ahead of fellow event standouts Zahli Kelly (Qld), Molly Picklum (Shelly Beach, NSW) and Shino Matsuda (JPN) who claimed second, third and fourth respectively.
 
“It was fun, but I got pretty lucky to get those few at the start that got me out in front for the rest of the final. This is my first time surfing in Manly and it’s been a good weekend, especially when the sun was out,” said Fulton. "Pam Burridge is my coach, she grew surfing here so it’s good to have her experience and secrets to surfing North Steyne.”
 
Zahli Kelly (Qld) put on a dominant performance over the course of the Key Sun Zinke Sydney Pro Junior, but unfortunately was unable to gain the edge over Fulton in the final.
 
"The waves were fun but a little inconsistent,” said Kelly.  “When I needed the score at the end it just closed out and didn’t help me, but I got to lock in the two seven-point-rides early. It’s been a lot of surfing this weekend but I’m excited for the QS event this week if the waves and conditions stay like this."
 
The Vissla Sydney Surf Pro QS 6000 events will begin tomorrow.  
 
All the NSW professional surfing action gets underway from early January with the World Junior Championships, followed by the Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series, The nudie Australian Boardriders Battle National Final, Surfest and the Vissla Sydney Pro.
 
The Vissla Sydney Surf Pro will be proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. The event will also be proudly supported by Vissla, Northern Beaches Council, WSL and Surfing NSW. 
 
The 2018 Vissla Sydney Surf Pro and Sydney Women's Pro will be held from February 26th  - March 4th. For more information, highlights and images, head to www.worldsurfleague.com or sydneysurfpro.com and on the WSL App.

RESULTS:
Men

1 – Caleb Tancred (Avoca, NSW) – 17.25
2 – Kyuss King (Byron Bay, NSW) - 14.95
3 – Callum Robson (Evans Head, NSW) – 14.05
4 – Billy Harrison (Barwon Heads, Vic) – 11.55
 
Women
1 – Sophia Fulton (Mollymook, NSW) – 15.50
2 – Zahli Kelly (Qld) – 14.70
3 – Molly Picklum (Shelly Beach, NSW) – 13.90
4 – Shino Matsuda (JPN) – 8.90
 
COMPETITORS GATHER IN MANLY FOR THE VISSLA SYDNEY SURF PRO.

COMPETITORS GATHER IN MANLY FOR THE VISSLA SYDNEY SURF PRO.

23/02/2018, New South Wales, Surfing, Surfing NSW, Article # 25881221
 
 

COMPETITORS GATHER IN MANLY FOR THE VISSLA SYDNEY SURF PRO. 

 
 
ABOVE: Local surfer Winter Vincent (Manly), Vissla Sydney Surf Pro wildcard Cole Houshmand (San Clemente, California), local competitor Jordy Lawler (North Narrabeen) and Vissla Sydney Surf Pro top seed Keanu Asing (Hawaii) met at Manly Beach today to launch the 2018 Vissla Sydney Surf Pro, which kicks off tomorrow. 
MANDATORY IMAGE CREDITS:  Ethan Smith / Surfing NSW
 
KEY POINTS
  • Vissla Sydney Surf Pro to begin tomorrow. 
  • Key Sun Zinke Sydney Pro Junior to kick off nine days of exciting surfing and run over the opening weekend with the WSL QS 6000 event to begin Monday. 
  • DOWNLOAD HIGH RES IMAGES HERE
 
MANLY BEACH, SYDNEY (Friday, February 23, 2018): The Vissla Sydney Surf Pro is set to kick off tomorrow with the Key Sun Zinke Sydney Pro Junior opening up the first weekend of competition.
 
With 6,000 QS points up for grabs, over 200 of the world’s best surfers will be in attendance as they look to kick off their 2018 campaign in style.
 
The Key Sun Zinke Sydney Pro Junior will see just under 100 of Australia’s and the world’s most promising junior surfers partaking in the action with the finals presentation set to take place on Sunday, 25 February.

All the action in the QS6000 event will begin on Monday, 26 February. 
 
Event top seed and 2018 World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) surfer Keanu Asing (Hawaii) is excited to get a solid result under his belt prior to the start of the 2018 Championship Tour and build on his momentum ahead of the 2018 Quiksilver Pro.
 
“It’s great to be back in Manly for the Vissla Sydney Surf Pro,” said Asing. “The Northern Beaches have always been a favourite stop for me and being Hawaiian, I feel some ties to the place thanks to Duke Kahanamoku first surfing here over 100 years ago. Hopefully, the waves turn it on over the course of the next week and we see some exciting surfing from the world’s best.”
 
2017 WSL Championship Tour Rookie of the Year and Sydney local Connor O’Leary echoed Asing’s sentiments.
 
“It’s amazing for me to have an event like this in Sydney,” said O’Leary. “To have it at the start of the year is awesome, especially just before the Championship Tour (CT) begins as it really helps me to get some momentum for competition. It gives you a huge confidence boost going into the year. Manly is the surfing hub of Sydney. Obviously, Layne (Beachley), Midget (Farrelly) and Barton (Lynch) and people like that have all come from Manly, so it has a lot of significance."
 
The entire event will kick off at 7.30am tomorrow with the opening rounds of the Key Sun Zinke Sydney Pro Junior. 


All the NSW professional surfing action gets underway from early January with the World Junior Championships, followed by the Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series, The nudie Australian Boardriders Battle National Final, Surfest and the Vissla Sydney Surf Pro.
 
The Vissla Sydney Surf Pro will be proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. The event will also be proudly supported by Vissla, Northern Beaches Council, WSL and Surfing NSW.  

The 2018 Vissla Sydney Surf Pro and Sydney Women's Pro will be held from February 26th  - March 4th. For more information, highlights and images, head to www.worldsurfleague.com or sydneysurfpro.com and on the WSL App.
 
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TOP SEED NIKKI VAN DIJK TO LEAD THE CHARGE AT SYDNEY WOMEN’S PRO.

TOP SEED NIKKI VAN DIJK TO LEAD THE CHARGE AT SYDNEY WOMEN’S PRO.

20/02/2018, New South Wales, Surfing, Surfing NSW, Article # 25849166
 
 

TOP SEED NIKKI VAN DIJK TO LEAD THE CHARGE AT SYDNEY WOMEN’S PRO. 

 
 
ABOVE: World Surf League Championship Tour competitor Nikki Van Dijk will head to the upcoming Sydney Women's Pro as the event's top seed.  
MANDATORY IMAGE CREDITS:  Ed Sloane / WSL
 
KEY POINTS
  • Former winner at Manly Nikki Van Dijk comes in as top seed. 
  • Over 10 Championship Tour competitors to compete in Manly. 
  • Promising long-term forecast. 
  • DOWNLOAD HIGH RES IMAGES HERE
 
MANLY BEACH, SYDNEY (Tuesday, 20 February 2018): With less than a week until the Sydney Women’s Pro hits Manly, some of the world’s best female surfers are preparing for the WSL Qualifying Series 6000 event. With valuable QS rankings points up for grabs, Manly will become the epicentre of world surfing for Sydney’s biggest surfing event.

With Manly being the home of one of her biggest WSL victories, Victorian Nikki Van Dijk (AUS) is pumped to return to the iconic strip of coast to compete at this year’s Sydney Women’s Pro. It will play as the perfect kick-start to the 2018 Championship Tour (CT) season.

“I’m feeling really great heading into the 2018 season,” Van Dijk said. “I’ve had a great off-season spending some much needed time at home, but I'm ready to get back on the road. I can’t wait to head to Manly, it’s one of my favourite places in Australia. I have friends that live on the Northern Beaches so have spent a lot of time there plus it holds great competitive memories. As I have won at Manly before I definitely feel really comfortable surfing and competing there.”

Although Van Dijk spends the majority of the year competing for a shot at the World Championship, these major Qualifying Series events provide the perfect proving ground for her and her CT counterparts.

“The field at Manly is crazy,” Van Dijk continued. “Events like the Sydney Women’s Pro are a great way to get your year rolling and the best way to warm you up for the CT's. The level of competition and talent at these QS events are so high, every heat is tough.”

There will be over 10 females from the elite Championship Tour competing at the Women’s Sydney Pro when it kicks off in just under a week. WSL Australia / Oceania Regional Manager Will Hayden-Smith is excited to see the worlds best continue surfing’s great lineage with Manly.

“Manly has so much surfing history over the past 100 plus years and WSL are excited to work closely with Surfing NSW for the latest chapter. We have 10 of the top 18 female surfers coming to the event and it’s exciting for us to have the likes of Nikki Van Dijk who’s won a major event here in the past coming to town again. There are early indications that we should have some really fun surf and I’m looking forward to watching our biggest event in Sydney get underway.”

In addition to the QS components of the Vissla Sydney Surf Pro, the WSL sanctioned Key Sun Zinke Sydney Pro Junior event will also take place on the opening weekend of the 24 – 25 February.
 
All the NSW professional surfing action gets underway from early January with the World Junior Championships, followed by the Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series, The nudie Australian Boardriders Battle National Final, Surfest and the Vissla Sydney Pro.
 
The Vissla Sydney Surf Pro will be proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. The event will also be proudly supported by Vissla, Northern Beaches Council, WSL and Surfing NSW.  

The 2018 Vissla Sydney Surf Pro and Sydney Women's Pro will be held from February 26th  - March 4th. For more information, highlights and images, head to www.worldsurfleague.com or sydneysurfpro.com and on the WSL App.
 
Rowing NSW Enews 12 February 2018

Rowing NSW Enews 12 February 2018

12/02/2018, New South Wales, Rowing, Rowing NSW, Article # 25769590
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NSW State Champs are Upon Us!

Entries for the #RNSWStateChamps2018 close this evening at 17:00AEDT.

Below are a few reminders for the upcoming regatta in 4 days time.

  • All Event Specific information (Event Program, Draw, Entries..) can be found HERE
  • Heat Management Policy HERE
  • Map of Merchandiser Locations HERE

We look forward to welcoming crews from all over the country as they flock to SIRC to compete at the Rowing NSW State Championship Regatta!

 
 
 

King's and Queen's Cup Dinner

Attention all Welshmen and Welshwomen!

The annual King's Cup and Queen's Cup State Team Lunch has changed to a Dinner in 2018, and will be bigger and better than the event you all enjoy each year!

Details:
$160 Per Person
6:30pm
Friday 9th March
Four Seasons Hotel, George Street Sydney

To purchase tickets click here

We will celebrate the naming of the NSW State Team, and you will have a rare opportunity to look at the trophies won by the 2017 NSW State Team, together with some of the history of the Kings and Queens Cups.

We would love to have anyone and everyone from the New South Wales Rowing Community at a delicious dinner in support of our 2018 NSW State Rowing Team and wish them the best for the Interstate Regatta at the conclusion of the Australian National Championships.

 
 
 
 

NSW Pathways Camp #4

The final Junior Pathway training day of the series hosted by our High Performance Rowing clubs was held at the Sydney University ThyneReid Boathouse on Sunday 28th January 2018.

It was good to see such a turnout for the day especially with many athletes having raced in the Small Boat Regatta at SIRC the previous day and/or having just returned from their school training camps.

As always there were a few drop outs and a few unexpected extras, but we saw three girls' eights and two quads along with one boys' eight and a coxed four get on the water for the first session.


The crews concentrated on drills and skills before lining up side by side for a battle paddle back to the shed. The focus was on maintaining skill with maximum power on the handle.

We were lucky to have RA Pathways Head Coach, Lyall McCarthy, in attendance for the day and he was able to impart his knowledge and passion to both the athletes and coaches.

Breakfast was provided courtesy of parents of SUBC rowers and the BBQing skills of the men's captain, Marcus Britt.

Olympian rowers from SUBC, Genevieve Horton and Cameron Girdlestone, shared the highs and lows of their rowing career and their pathway from school to where they are now. Gen started rowing at Pymble Ladies College and talked about her journey from winning gold at the Junior World Championships in the coxless pair and silver at the U23 Worlds the following year in the same crew into the senior team and on to the Olympics. She is now a full-time athlete at the Hancock Prospecting Women's National Training Centre. Cam's journey started at The Kings School. He was first selected into a Junior coxless four finishing eighth, then two years later in an U23 lightweight coxless four finishing ninth. His next international appearance after a seven-year hiatus saw him in the senior team finishing a devastating fifteenth before finally achieving silver at the 2015 World Championships, followed up with a silver Olympic medal in Rio. He is currently balancing his training with his full-time jo b as a teacher and will be looking to rejoin the national team next year.

The athletes were followed by SUBC Club Secretary Chris Noel with an entertaining speech on the importance of being a Welshman and the value of an Australian university education.

For most, it was the end of an intense few weeks of rowing so there were reduced numbers for the second row, which gave athletes a chance to row in a different boat class/crew.   

It was a great day with a good atmosphere amongst all the rowers and coaches from across the many schools and clubs.

Rowing NSW would like to thank SUBC Director or Rowing Dustyn Butler and his team of coaches, Don McLachlan, Debbie Fox, Alfie Young, Jack Hanley and Will Raven, for supplying enough boats, oars and coach boats to make the day run flawlessly. Also to captains Marcus Britt and Dyone Bettega along with parents for manning the BBQ and the kitchen and supplying copious amounts of food. And finally, to Wallis Russell, the Undergrad Student Representative on the SUBC Committee, for making up numbers by jumping in the bow seat of a quad.

Thank you to all the other coaches assisting with the day, particularly Ciarán Glynn and Matthias Ungemach for your time in putting crew lists together, and to those that made the long drive from Newcastle and Port Macquarie.

Moving forward from here there will be an Expression of Interest posted on the RNSW website with entry level requirements and campaign details for those wishing to be part of the 2018 NSW Pathways Eights to go through to the Interstate race at the Junior Selection trials in April.

 
 

Upcoming Regattas

THIS WEEK

Sat 17 Feb 2018
Sydney Boys High School Regatta
Entries Now Open (Close: 12/2/2018)
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Sat 24 Feb 2018
Sydney Rowing Club Regatta
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MLC School Regatta
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NSW Schoolboy Head of the River
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Mon 26 Feb 2018
CHS Rowing Championships
Entries Now Open (Close: 16/2/2018)
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Sat 3 Mar 2018
Riverview Gold Cup
Draw (Issued: 7/2/2018)

Sat 3 Mar 2018
NSW Schoolgirl Head of the River
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Sun 4 Mar 2018
South Grafton High and Iluka Rowing Club Regatta
Entries Now Open (Close: 21/2/2018)
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Shore School Regatta
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CDRA Championships
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LOCALS LOOK TO MAKE BIG IMPRESSION AT MOTHERNEST TWEED COAST PRO.

LOCALS LOOK TO MAKE BIG IMPRESSION AT MOTHERNEST TWEED COAST PRO.

25/01/2018, New South Wales, Surfing, Surfing NSW, Article # 25587301
 
 

LOCALS LOOK TO MAKE BIG IMPRESSION AT MOTHERNEST TWEED COAST PRO.

 
ABOVE: Fresh off a victory at the recent Carve Pro at Maroubra, local Tweed surfer Kobie Enright is eager to continue her momentum when the Mothernest Tweed Coast Pro kicks off in her local region.
MANDATORY IMAGE CREDITS: Print: Ethan Smith / Surfing NSW. Social: @ethdogsmith / @surfing_nsw
 
KEY POINTS
  • The Mothernest Tweed Coast Pro will host over-200 of Australia’s and the world’s most promising male and female surfers. 
  • The World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) 1000 competition – which will form the second of four stops on the Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series  – will take place from 31 January – 4 February, 2018.
  • DOWNLOAD HIGH RES IMAGES HERE 
 
MAROUBRA BEACH, SYDNEY (Thursday, January 25, 2018): The Mothernest Tweed Coast Pro will host over-200 of Australia’s and the world’s most promising male and female surfers when the elite five-day event gets underway in late January in Cabarita.
 
The World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) 1000 competition – which will form the second of four stops on the Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series  – will take place from 31 January – 4 February, 2018.
 
It is estimated over 20 different countries will be represented when the five-day event gets underway.
 
Fresh off a victory at the recent Carve Pro at Maroubra, local Tweed surfer Kobie Enright is eager to continue her momentum when the event kicks off in her local region.
 
“I couldn’t have asked for a much better start to 2018 than to win the Carve Pro last week,” said Enright. “With any luck I'll use this momentum to my advantage when the Mothernest Tweed Coast Pro lands in my home region next week. The entire Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series is the perfect stepping stone into the year and I really want to use it as a pathway to qualify like so many others have done previously.”
 
Micah Margieson, Mitchell James, Alyssa Lock, Brittani Nicholl and Ashlee Spence will join Enright on the list of Tweed locals who will be competing in the event. 

 
Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series event dates and locations:
Event One: Carve Pro
Location: Maroubra Beach
Date: January 18th – 21st, 2018
 
Event Two: Mothernest Tweed Coast Pro
Location: Cabarita Beach
Date: January 31st – February 4th, 2018
 
Event Three: Vissla Great Lakes Pro pres. by D'Blanc
Location: Boomerang Beach
Date: February 7th – 11th, 2018
 
Event Four: Vissla Central Coast Pro pres. by Slimes
Location: Avoca Beach
Date: March 7th – 11th, 2018
   
The Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series was developed for Australian and International surfers to gain ranking points and prize money on the WSL Qualifying Series. The series also creates a NSW coastal road trip for all to explore the variety of waves, visit local communities and enjoy NSW surfing culture.
 
The 2018 Vissla NSW Pro Surf Series will be proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. The series will also be proudly supported by Vissla, Randwick City Council, Central Coast Council, Destination Tweed, Great Lakes Council and Tourism, NBN, Toyota, Coastalwatch, World Surf League and Surfing NSW.
 
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07/12/2017, New South Wales, Gymnastics, Gymnastics NSW, Article # 25095670
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SCHOOL CHAMPIONS CROWNED ON DAY SIX OF SURF DIVE N SKI AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR SURFING TITLES AT CULBURRA BEACH.
 
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SCHOOL CHAMPIONS CROWNED ON DAY SIX OF SURF DIVE N SKI AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR SURFING TITLES AT CULBURRA BEACH.

 
ABOVE: Western Australia ensured they left their mark on the Surf Dive n Ski Australian Junior Surfing Titles, taking out the Under-16 Boys and Girls MR Shield and Under-19 Boys MR Shield. The teams most dominant performance came in the 16 Boys, thanks to some powerful surfing from Margaret River Senior High School’s Seth Van Haeften (Margaret River) and Jed Gradisen (Gracetown) - pictured above. 
MANDATORY IMAGE CREDITS: Print: Steve Conti / Surfing NSW. Social: @steve_conti_images / @surfing_nsw
 
KEY POINTS
  • First champions crowned in Schools divisions at the Surf Dive n Ski Australian Junior Surfing Titles
  • WA and NSW take out three titles each, while Victoria takes out two. 
  • Final champions to be crowned on the final day of the event tomorrow. 
  • Conditions: Windy three-to-four foot waves. 
  • DOWNLOAD HIGH RES IMAGE HERE. 
 
CROOKHAVEN HEADS, CULBURRA BEACH (Friday, 1 December 2017): The 2017 Surf Dive n Ski Australian Junior Surfing Titles saw its first round of champions crowned today with the Schools divisions of the event winding up in windy three-to-four foot waves.
 
Western Australia ensured they left their mark on the Surf Dive n Ski Australian Junior Surfing Titles, taking out the Under-16 Boys and Girls MR Shield and Under-19 Boys MR Shield. The strong team put on a stellar performance over the course of the day with the team taking three out respective titles. The teams most dominant performance came in the 16 Boys, thanks to some powerful surfing from Margaret River Senior High School’s Seth Van Haeften (Margaret River) and Jed Gradisen (Gracetown) who notched up an impressive 16.33 two-wave heat total to get the edge over the NSW team of Finn Hill (Kincumber High) and Olly Bolton (Kincumber High) who finished in second position.
 
Hot on Western Australia’s heels was the host state of NSW who managed to claim wins 19 Boys and Girls All-Stars division as well as the Under-16 Girls All-Stars division. Jay Brown (Cronulla) and Darcy Crump (Avalon) were able to get the highest scores across the Schools divisions, posting a giant 16.34 heat total to get the win ahead of Victoria’s Tully Wylie (Jan Juc) and Taj Sleeman (Wonthaggi) who finished in second.
 
Other victories came at the hands of Victoria’s Xavier Huxtable (Jan Juc) and Indi White (Jan Juc) who managed to take out the Under-16 Boys All-Stars for St.Josephs College with a heat total of 14.84. Meanwhile, the three lady team of Sophie Fletcher, Lannia Fostin and Daisy Corbett propelled Newhaven College to a victory in the Under-19 Girls MR Shield.
 
All results and heat totals can be found at www.australianjuniorsurfingtitles.com
 
The 2017 Surf Dive n Ski Australian Junior Surfing Titles will wrap up tomorrow. 

Prime location for the event is Culburra Beach and Crookhaven Heads with back up locations of Seven Mile, Shoalhaven Heads, Tilbury Cove, Culburra Beach, Cudmirrah Beach, Sussex Inlet, Narrawallee Beach, North Mollymook Beach, South Mollymook Beach, Rennies Beach, Ulladulla and Racecourse.
 
All teams, families and coaches are advised to ring the event hotline (0458 247 212) by 6.45am on the days of competition to confirm location and running order.
 
With past winners including World Champions Steph Gilmore, Chelsea Hedges, Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson, Mark Richards, Tom Carroll and Damian Hardman, a win in this year’s event is a legitimate stepping stone to world stage glory.
 
The 2017 Surf Dive n Ski Australian Junior Surfing Titles is proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. The event will also be supported by City of Shoalhaven, Hydralyte Sports, Woolworths, Toyota, mySURF.tv, School Sport Australia, Surfing NSW, Surfing Australia and the Australian Institute of Sport.
 
 
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