Surf Lifesaving Report

Week 2 Term 1 2024

Shore Carnival – Long Reef Beach

Despite beach closures at Long Reef, 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 swim practice in the ocean pool at Dee Why. 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.

Ocean conditions were poor on Saturday, with a strong southeasterly wind 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. As a result of the adverse surf conditions, the beach was closed, and the water events were re-located to Fisherman’s Beach, with all beach events remaining at Long Reef.

It was pleasing that the Juniors and Intermediates had some competition from Barker College, 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 six of their seven events.

The Barker College girls competed amongst themselves in each age group 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 outstanding results were attained during the day:

Junior (Years 7 and 8)

	Surf Swim	Beach Sprint	Beach Flags	Board Race
1st	Harrison A – Shore	Harrison A – Shore	Jackson D – Shore	Harrison A – Shore
2nd	Richard G – Shore	Anders M – Shore	Kai S – Barker	Richard G – Shore
3rd	Dash D V – Shore	Kai S – Barker	Lachlan F – Barker	Kai S – Barker
4th	Kai S – Barker	Max W – Barker	Anders M – Shore	Archie K – Shore
5th	Lachlan F – Barker	Jackson D – Shore	Archie K – Shore	Jackson D – Shore
6th	Lachie H – Barker	Dash D V – Shore	Dash D V – Shore	Max W – Barker

	Beach sprint relay	Board Relay	Swim Team
1st	Shore	Harrison A, Richard G, Archie K – Shore	Harrison A, Richard G, Anders M, Dash D V – Shore
2nd	Barker	Jackson D, Anders M, Dash D V – Shore	Barker
3rd	Shore	Barker	Nicholas W, Toby K, Will C, Jackson D – Shore

	Total Points (Junior)
Shore	70
Knox	Did not participate
Barker	45
Joeys	Did not participate

Junior Age Champion: Harrison A – Shore

Intermediate (Years 9 and 10)

	Surf Swim	Beach Sprint	Beach Flags	Board Race
1st	Noah M – Shore	Tom B – Shore	Tristan R – Shore	Noah M – Shore
2nd	Kia S – Barker	Jackson Y – Shore	Ted H – Barker	Max W – Shore
3rd	Henry P – Shore	Ted H – Barker	Archie A – Shore	Henry P – Shore
4th	Max W – Shore	Archie A – Shore	Xavier A – Shore	Tom B – Shore
5th	Matt L – Barker	Matt L – Barker	Jackson Y – Shore	Marcos P – Shore
6th	Jackson Y – Shore	Mattis G – Barker	Tom B – Shore	Kia S – Barker

	Beach sprint relay	Board Relay	Swim Team
1st	Shore	Shore	Shore
2nd	Barker	Shore	Barker
3rd	Shore	Shore
4th		Barker

	Total Points (Intermediate)
Shore	103
Knox	Did not participate
Barker	38
Joeys	Did not participate

Intermediate Age Champion: Noah M – Shore

Seniors (Years 11 and 12)

	Surf Swim	Beach Sprint	Beach Flags	Board Race
1st	Daniel S – Knox	Billy B – Joeys	Noah F – Knox	Louis L – Shore
2nd	Cooper P – Joeys	Hugh B – Shore	Lachlan C – Shore	Duncan C – Shore
3rd	Hugo L – Knox	Matthew L – Shore	Billy B – Joeys	Lachlan S – Knox
4th	Duncan C – Shore	Lachlan C – Shore	Louis L – Shore	Cooper P – Joeys
5th	Lachlan S – Knox	Max M – Joeys	Thomas B – Joeys	Lachlan C – Shore
6th	Jack P – Shore	Cooper P – Joeys	Duncan C – Shore	Hugo L – Knox

	Beach sprint relay	Board Relay	Swim Team
1st	Henry B, Doug C, Josh C, – Shore	Henry B, Lachlan C, James M – Shore	Knox
2nd	Joeys	Duncan C, Louis L, Hugh B – Shore	Shore
3rd	Lachlan C, Matthew L, Hugh B, Duncan C – Shore	Stevenson, Lonegan, Fitzgerald – Knox	Shore
4th	Joeys	Leslie, Hamilton, Taylor – Barker	Joeys
5th	Charlie M, Will M J, Brodie W, Sam W– Shore	Theo F, Sam W, Will M J – Shore	Barker
6th		Charlie M, Killian F, Rory C – Shore	Shore

	Total Points (Seniors)
Shore	62
Knox	33
Barker	3
Joeys	26

Senior Age Champion: Billy B – Joeys

Overall Points Scores

Barker	Knox (Seniors only)	Joeys (Seniors only)	Shore
83	33	26	235

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, camaraderie and of utmost respect for all competitors and staff from other schools.

Top image: Seniors Board Race

Mr G Jones
Acting MIC SLS

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