Surf Life Saving Report

Saturday 8 February 2025

Shore Carnival – Long Reef Beach

The conditions during the week at Long Reef were good. The boys approached their training over the week preceding the Carnival with enthusiasm and were certainly up for the challenge when Carnival Day came around. Mid-week training included beach sprint and flags practice races, along with surf swim and board events. The Sir Adrian Curlewis Cup has never left Shore in all the many years that the Shore Carnival has been running, and the Shore SLS boys were certainly not going to give it up this year.

Conditions could not have been better on Saturday, with light winds and small swell, as Shore welcomed St Joseph’s College (Joeys), Barker College and Knox Grammar School to Long Reef for a morning of competitive beach and water events. The Shore SLS coaching team set up the swim and board course, beach sprint and flags area early on, avoiding groups of surfers and beachgoers. All events ran smoothly and on time.

It was pleasing that the Juniors and Intermediates had some competition from Barker College and Knox Grammar School, and there was fierce competition between the boys for the top six point-scoring places and gold, silver and bronze medals at all times.

The Senior boys faced tougher competition from Joeys, Knox and Barker but demonstrated immense skill, determination and athletic ability to be the highest-scoring school in a number of events. This year has seen the introduction of the Nigel Scozzi Cup, which is competed for by Seniors across all three school Carnivals. Joeys has taken an early lead and left Shore with some catching up to do at both Bungan and Whale Beach in March.

The Barker College girls competed amongst themselves and showed that they are an incredibly talented surf carnival team. It is hoped that Long Reef Surf Lifesaving Club might raise a team of girls to provide some much-needed competition for future carnivals.

The following results were attained during the day:

Junior (Years 7 and 8)

	Surf Swim	Beach Sprint	Beach Flags	Board Race
1st	Harrison Ayer	Harrison Ayer	Harrison Ayer	Harrison Ayer
2nd	Saxon Joyce	Jacques Callebaut	Oscar Hanson	Jacques Callebaut
3rd	Jacques Callebaut	Saxon Joyce	Saxon Joyce	Saxon Joyce
4th	Oscar Hanson	Charlie Herfort	Charlie Herfort	Charlie Herfort
5th	Charlie Herfort	Toby Koch	Jacques Callebaut	Oscar Hanson
6th	Toby Koch	Oscar Hanson	Toby Koch	Archie King

	Beach Sprint Relay	Board Relay	Swim Team	Iron Man Relay
1st	Harrison Ayer, Saxon Joyce, Jacques Callebaut, Charlie Herfort	Oscar Hanson, Jacques Callebaut, Charlie Herfort	Shore	Toby Koch, Rory Jones, Harrison Ayer
2nd	Toby Koch, Oscar Hanson, Rory Jones, Archie King	Harrison Ayer, Toby Koch, Rory Jones	Shore	Charlie Herfort, Jacques Callebaut, Oscar Hanson
3rd	Barker	Saxon Joyce, Archie King, Sam Golding	Barker	Saxon Joyce, Archie King, Sam Golding
4th			Shore	Barker
5th			Shore

	Total Points (Junior)
Shore	144
Knox	Did not participate
Barker	14
Joeys	Did not participate

Junior Age Champion: Harrison Ayer – Shore

Intermediate (Years 9 and 10)

	Surf Swim	Beach Sprint	Beach Flags	Board Race
1st	Sam Chan	Tom Breakwell	Sam Chan	Tom Emmott-Bennett
2nd	Barker	Barker	Tom Emmott-Bennett	Sam Chan
3rd	Tom Emmott-Bennett	Barker	Tom Breakwell	Will Hoy
4th	Knox	Barker	Archie Alderson	Tom Breakwell
5th	Barker	Hugo Dunn	Hugo Dunn	Charlie Coppin
6th	Hugo Dunn	Barker	Max Hill	Barker

	Board Relay	Swim Team
1st	Sam Chan, Tom Emmott-Bennett, Tom Breakwell	Shore
2nd	Will Hoy, Charlie Coppin, Max Warnes	Barker
3rd	Will Lacroix, Jai Van Hamburg, Marcos Perez	Knox
4th	Jackson Dent, Dash Du Vernet, Richard Gao	Shore
5th	Barker	Shore
6th	Max Hill, Jake Maslen, Archie Alderson	Shore

	Total Points (Intermediate)
Shore	103
Knox	8
Barker	36
Joeys	Did not participate

Intermediate Age Champion: Sam Chan – Shore

Seniors (Years 11 and 12)

	Surf Swim	Beach Sprint	Beach Flags	Board Race
1st	Sam Davis	Joeys	Joeys	Sam Davis
2nd	Joeys	Joeys	Joeys	Joeys
3rd	Joeys	Joeys	Joeys	Charlie Martin
4th	Oliver Roxburgh	Oliver Roxburgh	Knox	Oliver Roxburgh
5th	Joeys	Knox	Joeys	Noah Kordek
6th	Joeys	Joeys	Joeys	Ben Jones

	Beach Sprint Relay	Board Relay	Swim Team	Iron Man Relay
1st	Joeys	Ben Jones, Sam Davis, Jackson Yeates	Joeys	Barker
2nd	Joeys	Charlie Martin, Oliver Roxburgh, Noah Kordek	Shore	Jackson Yeates, Oliver Roxburgh, Charlies Martin
3rd	Joeys	Joeys	Joeys	Knox
4th	Oliver Roxburgh, Noah Kordek, Lachie Adamo, Jackson Yeates	Joeys	Joeys	Joeys
5th	Knox	Lachie Adamo, Chris McIntyre, Xavier Adamo	Barker	Archie Alderson, Xavier Adamo, Noah Kordek
6th	Barker	Barker	Knox	Joeys

	Total Points (Seniors)
Shore	56
Knox	12
Barker	10
Joeys	90

Senior Age Champion: Oliver Roxburgh – Shore

Overall Points Scores

Barker (all ages)	Knox (Intermediate and Seniors only)	Joeys (Seniors only)	Shore (all ages)
60	20	90	303

A huge congratulations to the Shore SLS boys for demonstrating such tenacity and competitive spirit to retain the Sir Adrian Curlewis Cup, but more importantly, for participating with a sense of fun and camaraderie with the utmost respect for all competitors and staff from other schools.

In other SLS news, a number of boys attended a sunrise surf-ski paddle training event at Narrabeen Lagoon on Saturday. Archie Alderson, Xavier Adamo, Ethan Adamo, Ben Gordon and Sam Chan were introduced to the sport by Club Trainer Mr Chris Lock. If they feel confident enough, these boys may attempt the 6.5km surf-ski paddle as part of the Long Reef Iron Man event in March.

Mr Gareth Jones
MIC SLS