The female divisions got their Ocean and Earth NSW Junior State Title campaigns underway when day two of the event kicked off in clean three-foot waves at Bonny Hills.
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Kirra-Belle Olsson (Avoca) dominated the first round of the Under-16 Girls, dropping a massive 17.7 heat total (out of a possible 20 points).
The aforementioned score went in as the highest two-wave combined score of the day and allowed Olsson to skip the requalification rounds. Ironically,
Kirra-Belle posted a perfect ten-point at the 2015 Ocean and Earth NSW Junior Titles at Bonny Hills exactly one year ago.
Kiara Meredith (Barrack Heights) earned her place in the second round, taking out Sienna Coulter (Balgowlah), Sophia Chapman (Narrabeen) and Chelsea Green (Taree) with a 13.17 heat total in the Under-18 Girls. Meredith turned heads in her opening exchange performing an assortment of colossal frontside manoeuvres.
Joining Meredith in the Under-18 winners circle was Alysse Cooper (Queenscliff) and Lara Damelian (Bondi) who were also victorious in their opening heats.
Central Coast native Noah Munro (Noraville) put on a dominant display of power-surfing in the Under-18 Boys requalification heats performing an eclectic array of giant frontside turns. Munro posted the highest heat total on the round notching up a 15.16 score.
The Ocean and Earth NSW Junior State Surfing Titles continues today at Bonny Hills.
All qualifiers for the Ocean and Earth NSW Junior State Titles were determined by eight individual regional titles, which took place up and down the NSW coastline earlier in 2016.
2016 is the sixth year Surfing NSW will combine the NSW School Surfing Titles into the event.
The event will be fully mobile in the Port Macquarie area with Town Beach, Flynns Beach, Light House Beach, Rainbow Beach (Bonny Hills) and North Haven Beach all venue options.
The nine-day event will run from the 13th – 21st, July 2016, with the festival is set to include:
Australian Skin Cancer Clinic NSW Junior Longboard State Titles (13th - 14th)
Australian Kneeboard Titles Round 2 (13th - 14th)
Ocean & Earth NSW Junior State Surfing Titles (15th - 19th)
Ocean & Earth NSW Junior State School Surfing Titles (20th - 21st)
The Ocean and Earth NSW Junior Surfing Festival is proudly supported by Ocean and Earth, HIF, Australian Skin Cancer Clinics, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, Big4 Bonny Hills Holiday Park, NBN, Toyota, Carve, Ohana Ocean Athletics and Surfing NSW.
