Surf Tri Series held at Ocean Beach

The Central Coast has placed first in the Trans-Tasman Tri Series surf club competition held over three days at Ocean Beach, North Avoca and Macmasters Beach from January 9 to 11.

The first round was held at Ocean Beach on Sunday, January 9, and Central Coast team manager Gary Mensforth, from Umina, said the team performed exceptionally well.

"They were excellent at Ocean Beach and across all three rounds of the series," he said.

The Central Coast team won each round of the series and won overall by 22 points over NSW Country and Northern Region New Zealand.

"The strength and depth of the team was a major contributor to the overall result and beating NSW Country to regain the trophy for an event that is held every 2 years," said Mr Mensforth.

Each team, comprising of three males and females in each of the Open, Under 19 and Under 17 age categories, participated in traditional swim, board, ski and beach events.

Mr Mensforth said he was pleased with the results of the team including Ocean Beach's Elyssia Gasparotto and Keelan Bridge.

"Both Elyssia and Keelan competed in round one and round two and excelled in the conditions before leaving the team to compete at the NSW State Swimming Championships," he said.

Kaitlin Watts, 17 Jan 2011 Interviewee: Gary Mensforth