Ocean Grove Surf Life Saving Club has sent another strong team to the Australia Surf Life Saving Championships (The Aussies) in Queensland.
The youth championships were run on April 2 and 3 which consisted of ages under 13 to under 15.
The championships will continue right through to Sunday and head coach Sonia Kinsey said all of the team has performed very well so far regardless of the move to another beach.
“As a group we are excited to do as much racing as we can this week,” she said.
“It is all experience for us as a team of young athletes and so far they have performed very well. We have lots more events in the upcoming days and we will make sure we give it our best efforts.”
Highlights included Hudson Pearce, who made the under 15 board race final for the second year in a row and he will then front up to race in the under 17 boys team events
Other standouts were Georgie McIntyre, Toby Hallem and Will Goldsmith, all under 13s and in their first year in the championships.
The under 15 board relay team of Pearce, Aiden McGee and Jono Punchard also made it into the semi finals where they finished 12th.
The senior championships began on April 6 and the first final of the championship for Ocean Grove came in the under 17 boys board final of Pearce, Cam Asher and Tom Pages. All bottom age, the boys came 11th.
That was quickly followed by the female under 19 ski team of Lex McNaughton, Taia Young and Steph Reade who also made the final.
The under 17 girls both made the A and the B team made the finals and came 4th and 11th .
