Umina wins surf carnival

Umina Surf Lifesaving Club has won the Forster Weekend of Surf carnival for the second consecutive year.

Umina has been travelling to Forster for many years and has now won the trophy five times surpassing the Lakes Surf Club's previous record of four wins.

In testing conditions, members of Umina Surf Life Saving Club competed in the two-day carnival on the Mid-north Coast over the October long weekend.

There were 47 other NSW surf clubs in attendance and every year the numbers have been increasing due to the event's popularity, according to club secretary Ms Christine Lavers.

"Due to dangerous surf, the water events were cancelled for many of the younger competitors so it was up to the Opens and Masters to try even harder," Ms Lavers said.

"The juniors were able to compete in the beach events and with their great results this gave Umina a comfortable lead of 150 points overall taking out first place.

"If this is just a taste of what is to come for the start of the season, we hope with all the training and coaching during the off-season that these results carry through the summer months.

"This also proves that our dedicated lifesavers are ready in their fitness for their patrol duties."

On Saturday's endurance iron person event, Umina started off the carnival with some great results with Teigan Miller taking our first place in the Under-15s female event, Steve Murphy first in the Over-30s male event followed by second places for Lachlan Braddish, Keisha Bovill, Mick Magurran, Dave Gaffney and Kerry Armstrong in each of their respective races.

Rick Boylan, Craig Ballard and Bill Cook also did their local club proud by taking out third places in each of their races on the day while Helen Krucler achieved a fourth place in the Under-15s female event.

In Sunday's age champion results from the best performers in all events, Shannon Addams and Harry Braddish were age champions in the Under-11s male category and Sidney Healey in the Under-11s female group.

Meanwhile Teigan Miller took out the Under-15s female division, Holly Spender the Over-30s female and Kerry Armstrong the Over-40s female category.

Press release, 6 Oct 2010 Christine Lavers, Umina SLSC