Ocean Grove Surf Lifesaving Club is once again the best in the state.
The 59-athlete team won the State Championships point score with 458 points, from Mentone on 376 and Mornington, which finished third on 251.
The carnival was held at Ocean Grove main beach from February 24 to 26.
It began with a sweltering and flat day Friday afternoon for the rescue events and changed slightly by the end of Sunday, but was still not the conditions most competitors would have wanted.
“Was a hard slog the first two days,” OGSLSC senior coach Sonia Kinsey said.
“We did it hard in the flat conditions, but the athletes kept working together as a team and pulled out the score we needed to win in the end.”
There were some impressive results achieved throughout the weekend by the host club with young gun Campbell Asher winning the Under 17 Ironman on the Saturday and following it up with the Open Iron win towards the end of the program on the Sunday.
Asher was also involved in many other team and individual medals throughout the championships.
In what was also another historical win for Ocean Grove, the Under 17 team of Tom Perez Pages, Hudson Pearce and Campbell Asher won the Open Men’s board relay from a fast-finishing Warrnambool.
“You don’t win many of these in your time as an athlete so this was also very special for the boys,” Kinsey said.
“Overall it was a massive effort by our athletes from both water and beach in all age groups from Under 14 to Open to pull together what they have worked hard for all season.”
Results from the weekend can be found on sportapp-waves.lsv.com
A small team of athletes from the Ocean Grove senior team will head to Western Australia at the end of March to compete in the Australian Surf Life Saving titles.
