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2010 NSW Surf Life Saving Championships (Swansea/Belmont)

2010 NSW Age Surf Life Saving Championships – Overall Results

Kristie Edwards - 1st u/10 Flags, 1st u/10 Sprint, 1st u/10 relay
Charlie Brooks - 2nd u/12's Ironman
Jasmine Brooks - 3rd u/9's swim

U/10 girls relay team
Kristie Edwards, Eve Parker, Isabella Alvarez, Mia Marr

 

Results from 2010 Allphones Masters Surf Life Saving Championships 25 February 2010

 

Sydney Northern Beaches Branch Results, January/February at Queenscliff/Nth Steyne Beaches

Branch JUNIOR

Branch OPEN

Boat Results

Branch MASTERS (to be completed on 27 March 2010)

Freshwater Carnival Results, 26 January 2010

Open mens relay- 2nd

Steve Hatch - 3rd open mens sprint

Jake Lynch - 2nd 19's sprint and flags

Rob Barkley - 19's sprint final

Ben Ambrose - 4th 17's sprint and flags

Tatum Ansiewicz - 17's flags final

Josh Tyler - 1st 15's sprint

 

Interstate Championships - 24 & 25 January 2010

The interstate championships were held over Sunday and Monday and included the best athletes in the country - Shannon Eckstein, Ky Hurst, Naomi Flood, Krystal Smith.

 

 

Newport's Jake Lynch and Max Brooks represented Sydney Northern Beaches in the NSW Interbranch Championships held at Cape Hawke (near Forster) last weekend. Both produced outstanding results. Max Brooks narrowly missed the NSW team and was drafted into the Northern Territory squad.

 

Jake was 1st in the u19 Sprint, 1st in the u19 flags as well as part of the Senior Beach Relay which finished 1st. Max was 2nd in the u15 Ironman, 2nd in the Board Rescue and 1st in Board teams. Congratulations to both of them.

 

Northern Territory won the handicap trophy and NSW were the overall winners.

 

Manly Carnival Results, 23 January 2010

Open mens relay - final

Jake Lynch - 2nd 19's sprint, 3rd open flags

Rob Barkley - 19's flags final

Ben Ambrose - 3rd 17's sprint

Jason Chapman - open flags final

Josh Tyler- 4th 15's sprint

 

Fastest Man on Sand

Round 3 was held at Kirra beach on the 19^th of December with just two Newport sprinters, Jake Lynch and Ben Ambrose (both current Australian medallists) heading up to Queensland to compete against some of the best competitors in Australia.

 

After hours of waiting they were finally able to get the open competition underway with Ben starting out in the U/17 men beach sprint qualifying for the final and finishing 6^th in the final. Jake finished 3rd in the U/19 beach flags finishing behind his two main rivals. Jake also finished a very close 2^nd in the U/19’s beach sprint. Ben and Jake both backed up for the open beach sprint going through 3 rounds with Jake coming in at 3^rd and Ben in 4^th  in the final. An outstanding result from both our competitors.

 

Our next Open carnival will be Queenscliff on 9^th Jan., where we will have our full Beach Team competing along with our Water, R&R and Surfboat competitors.

 

Our Masters Team competes on 10^th Jan. in the East Coast Masters at Collaroy.

 

Any carnival enquires contact Beach Event coach and Club Competition contact Martin Lynch 0418268425 / mlynch@pip.com.au

 

Interbranch Championships

Newport's Jake Lynch and Max Brooks represented Sydney Northern Beaches in the NSW Interbranch Championships held at Cape Hawke (near Forster) last weekend.

 

Both produced outstanding results.   Jake was 1st in the u19 Sprint , 1st in the u19 flags as well as part of the Senior Beach Relay which finished 1st.  Max was 2nd in the u15 Swim, 3rd in the u15 Ironman, 7th in the Board Rescue and 2nd in the Cameron Relay.

 

Congratulations to both of them.

 

Long Reef Boat Carnival

The 3^rd round of the Sydney Northern Beaches Surf boat premiership was held on November 7^th at Long Reef in relatively small choppy surf as a result of the strengthening northeaster.

 

Newport was well represented with three under 19 boys’ crews and our men’s reserve crew taking their place on the starting line.

 

After three rounds of the under 19 boys division, two of the Newport crews managed to accumulate enough points to earn a spot in the six boat final. 

 

In a close contest the Gropers (Josh Crowe, Julian Small, Lucas Wilson, Tom Holland and sweep Mark Fitzgerald) rowed strongly to win the final in a wonderful display of rowing and the Tallywhackers (Jake Butcher, Marley Evans, Sean Emerson, Steve Beukers and Rob Emerson, sweep) finished in second place.  The quinella for Newport and the efforts of so many that have gone into our junior development program are starting to be rewarded in results.

 

The third junior crew comprised of Sean Fitzgerald, Mathew Trevitt were joined by replacement rowers Kate Hayward, Ellis James and Josh Hayward, sweep.  All these boys are first year rowers and with their rate of improvement and enthusiasm it won’t be long before they are making the finals also.

 

The newly formed Reserves Crew of Andy Charles, Tom Howse, Daniel joined by replacement under 23 gun James Brooks in place of our esteemed Boat Captain Bortho and Rob Emerson, sweep, had there first real hit out for the season finishing 2^nd, 3^rd & 5^th in the rounds narrowly missing the finals.  With a little more training these boys will improve their results in leaps and bounds.

 

The rower of the round award must go to Kate Hayward.  Kate is a valuable member of one of our under 23 girls crew and as they were not contesting this carnival, was more than happy to fill in for the under 19 boys under the loving guidance of her older brother Josh as sweep.  Well done Kate great job.

 

 

NEWPORT Competitors at The East Coast Surf Life Saving Festival

From the Central Coast

The east coast surf life saving festival is a 3 round competition new to surf life saving offering up a total of $75, 000 worth of prizes to be won in the final. The first round was held at Dixon park, and the 2^nd round and the final on the 21^st and 22^nd November at Shelly beach.

Newport had all 8 beach competitors qualifying for the finals on the 22^nd. The open men’s beach sprint had Jake Lynch and Steve Hatch in the final with Jake taking 3^rd place. An all age relay was another category on the beach area consisting of an open, u/19, u/17 and a u/15 runner, Steve Hatch, Jake Lynch, Ben Ambrose and Josh Tyler were apart of that team that won the relay as well as taking the $1250 prize money.

In the u/19’s competition Jake Lynch took out the double in the beach flags and beach sprint and Robert Barkley finishing 2^nd in the 19’s beach sprint. The u/17’s featured Mitch Rosic, Ben Ambrose and Luke Vescio in the final of the beach sprint with Ben finishing 2^nd.

Josh Tyler was the only u/15’s beach competitor. Showing good form, Josh came in 3^rd in the final of the beach sprint. The u/15’s were also well represented in the water with a good number of competitors qualifying for the finals.

 

In the WATER  Max Brooks finished in 3^rd in the u/15’s swim and later joined Fletcher Davies and Josh Tyler to win the Cameron relay.


Results:

Beach
Jake Lynch:
1^st 19’s sprint and flags
3^rd open sprint

Rob Barkley
2^nd 19’s sprint

Ben Ambrose
2^nd 17s sprint

Mitch Rosic
4^th 17’s sprint

Josh Tyler
3^rd 15’s sprint

All Age Relay
Newport 1^st (Hatch, Lynch, Ambrose, Tyler)

Water
Max Brooks
3^rd 15’s swim

Cameron Relay
Newport 1^st (Tyler, Brooks, Davies)

 

Kracka Carnival - 14 November 2009

 

Max, Cooper, Peter, Cody, Fletcher, Jake

 

Newport Surfboat Carnival

The Newport Junior Rowers Development Programme was on display on 31 October at the annual Newport surfboat carnival. Newport had four junior boat crews in the last heat of the u19s event and made up almost a third of the entire competitive field in the junior division.  As well as a junior (u23) women’s crew racing, with another junior (u23) women’s crew waiting to get into competition as soon as bronze medallions are awarded. In just its second year, the JRDP has increased competitors and members in the boat arena and has become a drawcard for new members as the word has spread of the fun and camaraderie within the group.  This influx has swollen the ranks of competitors to the extent that a new tent was needed just to sit everyone under shade at each carnival. Thanks to Sheldon Office Fitouts that was made possible as I am sure everyone who visited the carnival would have noticed.

 

See the slide show and a report from Michael King on the Boats page.

 

Grandparents Day

Another initiative of the JRDP that proved a huge success for the club and the rowers was the inaugural Grandparents Day. The JDRP took the opportunity of a home carnival, a viewing vists from inside the clubhouse with protection from the sun and sand to invite the juniors grandparents to watch them row. This was an opportunity of which most junior rowers grandparents took advantage. The club house was crowded with grandparents enjoying morning tea and watching their grandchildren compete, with some of the mothers of rowers explaining to them to procedures of the day, something which is rarely available to them.  A lot of positive feedback was received from the grandparents and they are all looking forward to coming again next year. The photograph below shows just some of the juniors and grandparents on the veranda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sydney World Masters Games

 

Beach

Gold	5
Silver	5
Bronze	5

 

Boats

Gold

1

 

Water

Gold	2
Silver	4
Bronze	3

 

 

A few of our many gold medallists (180+ years Womens Surf Boats)

 

L to R: Jane Steinert, Michael King, Elizabeth McLoughlin,
Kerry McEwan and Leanne Budd. Photo: courtesy Sue Spring

 

Results from Saturday, 10 October 2009

 

Results from Sunday, 11 October 2009

 

NSW Endurance Championships,
Cronulla, 19 September 2009

 

Newport picked up 7 medals

 

50+ Years Male Ski - 8 km

(1) Clifford, Greg (Bronte) (2) Chapman, Robert (Elouera) (3) hancock, garry (Cronulla) (4) Flood, Kevin (Newport) (5) LEWIS, Max (North Cronulla) (6) LANG, Gordon (Palm Beach NSW)

 

40-49 Years Female Ski - 8 km

(1) RAE, Fiona (Palm Beach NSW) (2) Pearson, Margaret (3) Perretta, Kerry (Shellharbour) (4) Cowan, Grace (North Cronulla)

 

40‐49 Years Female Beach Run - 5 km

(1) Pearson, Margaret (Newport)

 

50+ Years Male Board - 5 km

(1) Chris, McGuckin (Avalon Beach) (2) Flood, Kevin (Newport) (3) Williams, Allen (Towradgi) (4) SPENCER, NEALE (North Avoca Beach) (5) HUDSON, STEVE (North Avoca Beach) (6) Nicholas, Wood (Avalon Beach)

 

30‐39 Years Female Surf Race - 1.5 km

(1) ROBINSON, JACQUI (South Maroubra) (2) Zikarsky, Kylie (Elouera) (3) Euers, Kathy (Newport)

 

40‐49 Years Female Surf Race - 1.5 km

(1) HARRISON, COLLEEN (North Avoca Beach) (2) Proudfoot, Jan (Newport)

 

50+ Years Ironman (500m swim, 1.5 km board, 2 km ski)

(1) Chapman, Robert (Elouera) (2) Flood, Kevin (Newport) (3) CRABB, GORDON (North Avoca Beach)
(4) HUDSON, STEVE (North Avoca Beach)

 

40‐49 Years Ironwoman (500m swim, 1.5 km board, 2 km ski)

(1) RAE, Fiona (Palm Beach NSW) (2) Perretta, Kerry (Shellharbour) (3) Proudfoot, Jan (Newport)

 

Newport SLSC- The Masters

The first officially accredited Australian Masters Championships was held in 1991 at Cottesloe (Perth). Newport Surf life saving Club was represented in that carnival by Martin Lynch (beach events)and Lionel Fargher  (water Events). Martin won Newport’s first Australian masters championships gold medal at that carnival in winning the 35 years beach sprint event.

 

Prior to that championship, a number of Newport competitors competed in the “All States Masters” carnivals held in Wollongong in 1990, Pacific beach (Queensland) in 1989 and Bondi in 1988. These included Col MacLean, Bob Clarke, Richard McEvoy, Dave Oatley, Phil Longworth as well as Martin and Lionel.

 

Over the next two decades the Newport masters team grew in strength to a point where by the 2008 Australian masters championship in Scarborough (Perth), they finished  as the number one NSW masters club in the overall point score, with an impressive 6 gold medals in events ranging from the Men’s Surf Team (James Brooks, Ben Davies and Stewart Mears) to the Women’s (Robbie Cummins, Maragret Pearson, Mikke Foley and Sukie Southern) and Men’s Beach Relay (Ted Smithies, Rob Emerson , Brett Budd and Martin Lynch). Newport competitors also won 3 individual gold medals in Beach events (with Ted and Brett in the Sprints and Martin in the Flags).

 

Throughout the 90’s, Newport Surf Club was represented with success at every Australian Masters championship, with Martin Lynch winning numerous Sprint and Flags events and was later joined by Grant Currie who won the 35 years Beach Flags in 1998.

 

After 2000, the influx of “nipper parents” joining the club and becoming patrolling members began to impact on the numbers and quality of masters competitors. Ted Smithies, Brett Budd, Rob Emerson and Anthony Daube joined Martin Lynch in becoming the dominant Male Masters Beach Team in the Country, winning numerous individual titles as well as combining to become the most successful relay team in masters competition. Ted Smtihies commenced his run of nine successive sprint titles with a win in the 50years sprint in 2001.

 

In the Women, Margaret Pearson, Mike Foley, Sukie Southern, Robbie Cummins, Eva Daube and Elke Harman had great success in the Women’s Beach Relay and Mikke becoming an individual Australian master’s champion in the sprint.

A few years later our master’s water competitors began to emerge and were successful in 2007 with Ben Davies winning Newport’s first gold medal in a water event in any category. Ben won the 30 years Rescue Tube. The following year Ben was joined by James Brooks and Stuart Mears in winning the masters Surf Teams event.

 

The first 19 years (1991 - 2009) of Australian Masters competition has been a successful period with Newport competeing in a variety of disciplines ranging from Beach Events to Surf Boats to all the Water disciplines. Over that period our competitors have won a total of 40 gold medals. 33 individual, 7 in Team Events.

Our masters Australian Gold medallists (as of 2009)

Martin Lynch 25

Ted Smithies 14

Brett Budd 6

Rob Emerson 5

Mikke Foley 2

Ben Davies 2

Anthony Daube, Grant Currie, James Brooks, Stuart Mears, Margaret Pearson, Robyn Cummins, Sukie Southern- 1

 

World Masters Championships

The first world masters championships were held in Red Beach (Auckland N.Z) in 1991. Martin Lynch picked up Newport’s first World championship with a gold medal in the 35 years Beach Sprint. Newport competitors have competed in and have been successful in every world master’s championships held in Countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, USA, Italy and Germany.

Our World champions: (as of 2008)

Martin Lynch 11

Ted Smithies  6

Margret Pearson 3

Brett Budd, Eva Daube, and Robbie Cummins 1

 

 

 

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