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JUNIOR surfers from the Far South continued their dominance of local surfing by providing three quarters of the 18 members in the WP junior surfing team that will be defending the Freedom Cup team trophy at the O?Neill SA Junior champs at the Strand from Thursday to Sunday this week.

Captained by Wesley Grey, the top seed in the four man under-18 squad that features fellow Kommetjie residents Brett Shearer, Adam Hansen and Cuan Prytz, the side includes national team members Klee Strachan (Sun Valley) and Tarryn Chudleigh (Scarborough), who are amongst the favourites to capture the u/16 titles.

Others who will be pursuing individual honours and the pride that goes with winning the inter-provincial team trophy are Muizenberg's Aran Moore and Daniel Levitt (u/16 boys), Kommetjie's Matthew Bromley and the Woods brothers - James and Thomas - in the u/14 boys and Holly Armstrong (u/12 girls), Sun Valley's Gavin Hutton (u/16 boys) and Bronwyn Chudleigh (Scarborough), who joins her sister Tarryn in the u/16 girls team.

The Quiksilver Western Province team will be hard pressed to retain the team title they've held for the past two years. KwaZulu-Natal, the champions for seven straight years prior to WP's first victory in 2003, is fielding an exceptionally talented side this year, while Border and the hosts Boland have several potential individual champions.

Congratulations and best wishes go to Klee Strachan and Tarryn Chudleigh, who depart for the ISA World Junior Surfing Championships in California next Monday. Strachan has the added honour of being appointed vice-captain of the 12 person team that is coached by Surfing South Africa coaching director Howard Gold, a long-time Kommetjie resident.

This past weekend saw a number of talented local youngsters travel to Jeffreys Bay for the sixth GromSearch event of the year, which attracted a full house of more than 80 competitors 16-years-old and younger from around the country. Michael February (Kommetjie) won the u/12 boys title. Jarred Veldhuis (10) from Sun Valley confirmed his emerging potential by placing fourth, while James and Thomas Woods finished third and fourth respectively in the u/14 boys final.

Another local to shine in J-Bay was Dene Botha from the Kommetjie-based Kahuna Surfing Academy, who enhanced his coaching reputation by guiding eight of the nine surfers he was assisting to the finals of the event, including u/14 winner Dale Staples (St Francis Bay) and rising national age group star Shaun Joubert (Mossel Bay), who was runner-up in both the u/14 and u/16 boys' divisions.

? Paul Botha is the owner of Life's a Beach Communications in Kommetjie.

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