Year 7-8 Taranaki Schools Surfing Champs 2024

Some great results at the Year 7-8 Taranaki Schools Surfing Champs 2024 from OBC members kids! This was a hotly contested event with 16-20 kids in each division.

Well done all!

Results:

Year 7 Girls; 1st Madi Peacock - Oakura, 2nd Isla Priest - Oakura, 3rd Chloe Milestone-Webb - Oakura, 4th Coco Tapara – Oakura, 5th Cocone Hiyama - HIghlands

Year 8 Girls: 1st Lyla Termath - Oakura, 2nd Ruby Peacock - Oakura, 3rd Isla Gilchrist - SHGC, 4th Emma Creery - Highlands

Year 7 Boys: 1st Joel Beecroft - FDMC, 2nd Johnny Elsmore – Opunake Primaryy, 3rd Zac Church - Highlands, 4th Maximilian Wahlen - Oakura

Year 8 Boys: 1st London Cockerill - Highlands, 2nd Koa Gillespie - Oakura, 3rd Albie Staunstrup-Moore – Coastal, 4th Jett Hay – Highlands

OBC Grom Comp. 2024

The sunshine and surf turned it on for the OBC Junior Club Champs held on Saturday at the local spot. It was great to see all the families supporting their groms. There were over 50 OBC competitors ripping from the age of 5 to 14.

This year the club jumped into this wonderful age of technology and trialled Live Heats for entries, judging and tabulation with great success.

A massive thanks goes out to the contest directors the judges, and a special thanks goes out to our sponsors who kindly offered up some amazing merchandise for prizes. Vertigo, FCS, Sticky Johnson, O'Neill, Rip Curl, Creatures, Hot Dog Twinny and JT Textured Plastering.

The push-in division this year was judged on style and wipe-outs, and it was great to see the dads and the mums hooking their grommets into some gnarly waves.

The highly sort after OBC winners’ rocks where hotly contested and showcased how much our local groms rip.

Contest results:

Un10Boys: Fraser Brown 1st, Freddie Hau 2nd, Jack Maxim 3rd Finn Milestone-Web 4th.

Un12Boys: Joel Becroft 1st, Levi Termath 2nd , Levi Fox 3rd Luke Mottern 4th

Un14 Boys: Logan Verster 1st, Levi Devine-Collins 2nd , Koa Gillespie 3rd James MacDonald 4th

Un12 Girls: Maddi Peacock 1st, Indy La Franchie 2nd, Coco Tapara 3rd Miakoda Tipene 4th

Un14 Girls: Lyla Termath 1st, Lila Watts 2nd, Ruby Peacock 3rd, Monet Christiansen 4th, Ava Curd 5th.

2024 NZ Surfing Events Calendar

Summer is on it's way and with it a full calendar for those competing in NZ wide surfing events. The full event calendar can be found here on the NZ Surfing website.

Key events include the NZ Nationals 7th-13th of January 2024 which are being held in Dunedin- St Clair this year.

Other important events for our club include the Billabong Grom Series:

• Event 1, Mount Maunganui, 27th-28th January

• Event 2, Whangamata, 10th -11th February

• Event 3, Piha, 24th-25th February

as well as the Hurley New Zealand Club Championships, Whangamata, 9th-10th March

Roll on summer, warm weather and good waves!