Local surfers make SA team
Local KZN surfers selected for ISA World Junior Surfing championships.
Surfing South Africa named its South African Junior team for the 2014 ISA World Junior Surfing championships. The team, made up of eight boys and four girls, in the U18 and U16 age divisions will join 300 athletes from more than 30 countries at La Fae Beach in Salinas, Ecuador for the biggest international junior surfing championship in the world in late March.
Six of the team members come from the Western Cape, five are from KwaZulu-Natal and one is from the Eastern Cape.
In the U18 boys division Max Armstrong earns his second cap and is the top seed. Armstrong has been named captain of the side. Steffen Burrows earns his third cap and is the second seed while Shane Sykes of Salt Rock wins his second cap and is the third seed. The fourth member of the U18 group is Nthando Msibi, a 2014 ISA Scholarship recipient, who will represent South Africa for the first time. The non travelling reserve is Richard Kidd of Ballito.
South African U17 champion Teal Grace-Hogg gets her first cap as top seed in the U18 girls division and is joined by Chanelle Botha, who wins her third cap. Anoush Zakarian is the official reserve.
Top seed and new cap in the U16 boys group is current South African U15 champion Ethan Fletcher and another new cap, Adin Masencamp is the second seed.
It is a second cap for third seed Jordy Maree, while Joshe Faulkner is seeded fourth in the U16 group and will surf for South Africa for the first time. Bevan Willis of eMdloti is the official reserve.
Two new caps include Danville Park Girls’ High School pupil, Cana Foster and Ruth Armstong are the U16 girls representatives with Michelle Verreynne the official reserve.
