State titles in for a triple treat from Wanda

And the identical Fawer triplets are three reasons for the club's record-breaking team of 166 Nippers heading to the central coast.

More than 3000 juniors aged up to 14 years from about 80 clubs in NSW will take on the best from Bate Bay: Cronulla, North Cronulla, Elouera and Wanda junior surf clubs.

And the girls' rivals will be excused if they blink overtime when the Fawer girls combine to make up Wanda Bluebottles' team of three in the under 10 girls board relay event.

Especially when they swap over on the shoreline!

The nine-year-old girls, who only started Nippers a few years ago, will also be part of a four-person beach relay team and a swim team, and will compete in individual events as well.

"We're good swimmers but we'd really like to win the board relay," said Jasmine, whose mother Linda encouraged them to swim early.

Wanda's Steve Southwell said the Fawer girls were like many of the club's other under 10 youngsters who were enjoying competition and "having a lot of fun doing it."

"The club has put a lot of time over the past few years building up our junior ranks and the training program that goes with, and backed by the time and effort provided by many of our senior competitors helping the coaches," said Southwell.

"We're enjoying quite a bit of success, too. For instance our under 12 girls 'Invisibles' have won every board and swim relay event since they started competing together as U9s, and our U14 boys team have won every beach relay event at state titles since they combined as U9s, too."

Titleholders Manly again go in as one of the favourites, but Wanda and the Bate Bay clubs are out to get them.

Carnival organisers are hoping weather conditions will be a bit kinder than last year at Umina, when a large number of events had to be cancelled by the weather and storm-water, making the beach unsafe.

The four-day senior NSW SLSC Championships begin at Umina next Thursday, March 6.