NORTH Cronulla finished the top Bate Bay club and the only one inside the top 10 (ninth overall) in the just completed Australian Surf Lifesaving titles at Scarborough beach, Perth.
Standouts included their R&R team which won gold in the U19 and open female five-person, including Hannah Goman, Kelly Primmer, Chelsea Robertson, Maddison McKinnery and Jade Jenkins, and coached by Karen Goman.
History was made in the open mixed six-person R&R where Stephanie Buncombe, Taylor Harvey, Patricia Cowan, Alexandra Stokes-Hughes, Monica Di Maio, and Lucy Mahoney became the first ever all-female team to make the podium, winning bronze.
The surfboard riding team collected five medals in total. Oliver Hoare stormed to a third successive national title for 2014 in the U17 2km beach run and won gold in his surf team event, with James Southwell, Lachlan Moyle and Jack Harrison. Jazmyn Turner backed up her gold at state by winning her national surfboard riding event.
The club's under 17 teams excelled, winning the male surf team and the female board relay team (Alexandra Budd, Maggie Mahoney and Megan Fowler). Club president Craig McKinniery walked the walk by winning a bronze medal in the malibu board race.
Glayds Honer, an inspirational senior athlete, won two gold medals in the masters and one silver for beach events, with the 140 years male surfboat team storming to victory.
Wanda was best served by their U19s and R&R teams (gold and silver), with Ali Najem winning gold and silver in the 2km runs; Jay Furniss gold and bronze in the surf and Danielle McMahon and Taylar Puskaric heading the women's surf medals.
Cronulla's gold medalist Kyla King and Ngaire Hadfield headed a strong women's beach team where the Bate Bay clubs U15 women excelled, particularly in the flags where half the eight finalists came from Cronulla and Elouera.
Cronulla's Ngaire Hadfield finished with the silver behind winner Sophie McGovern from South Curl Curl and Elouera's Tara Stortenbeker, the bronze with the younger Talia Munro (Cronulla) seventh and Monique Wood (Elouera) eighth.
Ironman Dane Farrell headed Elouera's tally of five bronze medals won. The strong Helensburgh-Stanwell Park beach team did well, including gold medallist Avalon Punch, while the small Burning Palms club had one big win: their veteran team including two 70-year-olds won the open march past event.
NORTH CRONULLA
■ GOLD: Jazmyn Turner, U19 female surf board riding; Oliver Hoare, U17 2K beach run; Alexandra Budd, Maggie Mahoney, Megan Fowler, U17 female board relay; James Southwell, Lachlan Moyle, Oliver Hoare, Jack Harrison, U17 male surf team; Kelly Primmer, Hannah Goman, Maddison McKinnery, Chelsea Robertson, Jade Jenkins U19 five-person R&R; Kelly Primmer, Hannah Goman, Maddison McKinnery, Chelsea Robertson, Jade Jenkins, 0pen five-person R&R.
■ SILVER: Daniele Calo, U17 female surf board riding; Lara Hughes, Georgia McGrath, Hannah Goman, Maddison McKinnery, Chelsea Robertson, Jade Jenkins, Kate Janssen, Stephanie Buncombe, Taylor Harvey, Patricia Cowan, Erin Cowan, Alexandra Stokes-Hughes, U23 mixed march past.
■ BRONZE: Luke Calo, U19 male surf board riding, open male surf board riding; Eleanor Harrison, U15 female surf board riding; Abigail Pugh, Alexandra Budd, Maggie Mahoney, Meghan Fowler, U17 female surf team; Georgia McGrath, Kate Janssen. Patricia Cowan, Alexandra Stokes-Hughes, open five person R&R, Stephanie Buncombe, Taylor Harvey, Patricia Cowan, Alexandra Stokes-Hughes, Monica Di Maio, open mixed six-person R&R.
■ MASTERS: Gold: Gladys Honer, female beach sprint 65-69, 1km beach run, Nathan Spinner, Andrew Smalley, Leigh Cotter, Brian Clark, 140yrs male surf boat; silver: Gladys Honer, female beach flags 65-69 years; bronze: Wayne Turner, Vaughn Meldrum, David Gregson, Michael Bofinger, male surf boat 180years; Craig McKinniery, over 50 mixed malibu long board riding.
WANDA
■ GOLD: U19 male 2km run: Ali Najem; U19 swim: Jay Furniss; U19 female rescue-tube rescue: Izel Tuncer, Danielle McMahon, Taylar Puskaric, Abby Schott; Open five-person R&R: Brock Douglas, Blake McCrindle, Kurt Melville, Grant Sandstrom, Stuart Smith.
■ SILVER: Open six-person R&R: Brock Douglas, Blake McCrindle, Kurt Melville, Grant Sandstrom, Stuart Smith, Gordon McKirdy; Open 2km run: Ali Najem.
■ BRONZE: U19 belt: Jay Furniss; U15 female 2km run: Elly O'Donohue; U19 female board rescue: Taylar Puskaric, Danielle McMahon.
■ MASTERS: Gold: 2km beach run: Jock Campbell; men's ski: Michael Georgaris.
Other notable performances: 2km run: Mitch Palmer (4th); U15 board riding: Tyler Nott (4th); U19 female single ski: Danielle McMahon (4th); U15 2km run: Josh Fernandes (5th); U19 female taplin relay: Izel Tuncer, Danielle McMahon, Taylar Puskaric (5th); U19 swim: Taylar Puskaric (5th); U19 female surf teams: Izel Tuncer, Danielle McMahon, Taylar Puskaric, Abby Schott (6th); U19 female board relay: Izel Tuncer, Danielle McMahon, Taylar Puskaric (6th).
ELOUERA
■ BRONZE: Dane Farrell: open ironman; Tara Stortenbecker: U15 flags; Open women's board rescue: Bridget Little and Lucy Ford; Open lifesaver relay team: Grant Wilkinson, Rory Gillespie, Mic Henry, Sarah Hill, Brett Wright, Nathan Gray, Tom O'Keeffe, Mitchell Hughes, Renee Stortenbeker; Open men's swim team: Nathan Gray, Alex Clarke, Dane Farrell and Tom O'Keeffe.
Other notable performances: open male board rescue: Tom O'Keefe/Dane Farrell, 4th; open men's taplin team: Tom O'Keeffe, Alex Clarke, Nathan Gray, Dane Farrell, Tori Callan, Mitch Hughes, 7th; Sam King: 6th, U15 swim; Tom O'Keeffe: 7th, open male swim; Tahnee Fleming: 8th, open female board; open Belt race: Alex Clarke, 7th.
CRONULLA
■ GOLD: U17 female beach relay: Olivia Clarke, Tiarne Cavanagh, Kyla King, Jessie-Rae Trevitt.
■SILVER: U15 female beach flags: Ngaire Hadfield; U15 female beach relay: Ngaire Hadfield, Talei Holmes, Talia Munro, Jamyka Blattman.
■ BRONZE: U15 male surf team: Brad Dawson, Tim Ford, Cody Gaddes, Lachlan Vitnell; U17 female beach sprint: Kyla King; Open female belt: Shivaun Street.
The four Bate Bay clubs provided results.
