Interclub Report

			Cronulla	Nth Cronulla	Elouera	Wanda
Harry Gibbons Shield	Boats		3	4	1	2
Cronulla SLSC Shield	Craft		1	3	2	4
Harry Brown Shield	Rescue		2	3	1	4
Bill Bray Shield	Beach		4	2	3	1
R H Johnson Shield	Swimming		3	2	1	4
			13	14	8	15

 

Beach section – Fantastic results from the beach section with the 18 boys and girls taking out Gold and Silver in the relay events. This was mirrored by the Open Women’s team, with the Open Men winning the gold too despite the 3 fastest runners being away on vacation. (we would have had 2 open men’s teams too had they been here)

The 15 Years girls were 1 runner missing but helped out by Indie Filipe from the 14 yrs Nippers and ran joint 2^{nd to Elouera} with the 15 boys who are nearly all under 14’s placing 4^th.

In the Flags event Sasha Popovic took gold in the 15 years event despite being under 14! and Angus Cunningham placed 5^th in his first competition since his battle against Hodgkins Lymphoma. Great to see him back.

Jacinta Davison- Bunch took silver in the 15 girls event and Genevieve Reiprich 5^th.

In the 18 Years event Sam Stonestreet took Gold with Matt Lisser 4^th and in the Girls event Chloe Mannix Power took silver with Danielle Katzos 6^th.

In the Open Flags Jackson Shaw placed 3^rd with Sam Stonestreet 4^th and in the Women’s event Tara Stortenbeker 2^nd and Ngaire Hadfield 3^rd.

We only fielded 2 teams in the 1k and 2 K relay , with Rhys Telfer and Hoani Tangahoa taking the silver in the U18 event and Nathan Breen and Hoani Tangahoa taking the gold in the longer event.

Needless to say Cronulla dominated the beach points score!!

 

Water Section – Huge improvements

 

15 Years – Noah Steiner was the pick of the boys showing he is developing into a quality athlete. In all lead legs of the relays he either led or was right on the heels of Riley Dixon. (Wanda’s state champion swimmer) Accompanied by Will Bannister and Finn Browning the boys placed second in both the board relay and the Cameron relay. In the girls events it was the swimmers that took gold.  Isabella and Georgia Turner, Malaika Walker and Ella Lythall won the surf teams event. Naomi Gaddes and Isabella placed 3^rd in the Board rescue and  and the team of Malaika Walker, Naomi Gaddes and Isabella Kotis (under 14) placed 2^nd in the board relay behind a very strong Wanda team. The girls also secured second spot in the Cameron relay

18 Years – Harry Came was the pick of the bunch winning the surf teams race with Tim Ford 6^th Nathan Ford 8^th and Callum Redrup 12^th. The team finished second behind North Cronulla who medalled last year at the Australian titles.

We fielded 3 board relay teams and placed 4^th, 6^th and 8^th respectively showing there is some good depth in this age group. The Ski relay team of Stuart Dunn, Callum Redrup and Tim Ford finished 2^nd with the B team of Nathan Ford, first timers Nathan Hartley and Tom Maile taking 4^th spot.

Noah Steiner/Finn Browning/Harry Came/ Callum Redrup/Lachlan Vitnell and Cody Gaddes took silver in the Board rescue.

In the Girls events Cronulla placed 4^th in the board relay ( Chanel Pocklington, Bridget Cole and Brianna Shipley) and 3^rd in the surf teams. Unfortunately we did not field a ski relay team due to a late withdrawal from 2 athletes.

Opens – Brad Dawson started superbly with a victory in the Open Belt only to be followed moments later by Emma Southwell winning the female event too. What a start!

We placed 2^nd in the surf teams behind Wanda with Nathan Breen 4^th, Lachlan Vitnell 6^th, harry Came 7^th and Jack Robertson 10^th .

The senior boys teams of Lachlan Vitnell Cody Gaddes and Jack Robertson placed 6^th in both Board relay and Cameron relay and the Ski Relay (Jack ford for Lachlan Vitnell). Considering they are mainly a team of U19 athletes the gap between the established open competitors and our seniors has closed and we are progressing well.

Double ski pairings of Carla Papac and Jack ford 6^th with Jayde Bagnall and Cody Gaddes 8^th.

In the Women’s relays however, it was different story. The Taplin team of Southwell, Papac and Bagnall finished 1^st and the board relay team (Papac, Pocklington and Bagnall) 2^nd.  They narrowly missed the gold medal on a run up the beach in the ski relay too, with Phoebe Lacoste showing her paddling skills are certainly worthy of a state final spot and possibly a medal!

It was great to see new member Jayde Bagnall perform so well on the Ski and Board and she will be a real asset to Cronulla this season.

The final event of the afternoon the 12 a side swim relay saw a battle between Wanda, North Cronulla and Cronulla until leg 6 when the gap opened and we ended up placing 3^rd.

Boat Section

The boats contested all but 3 divisions of the 2017 Interclub ( Masters-23 female and 19 Female) and finished a credible 2nd in the boat trophy.

It was a very pleasing day as the section had to mix crews up due to the unavailability ( work and overseas) of some rowers. Only our Open women’s crew( 1st Place) were a full compliment of usual rowers.

1st Open Male Boat- despite the result being tabled to the contrary- anyone with 20-20 vision saw that the Black White and Blue were clear winners.

Crew -Gary Allman- Ryan Wood- Brent Trotter- Adam Orford- Jake Cacssell.

1st Open Women’s Boat- Gary Allman- Laura Fagan- Ashley Wright- Rikki Orford- Alyce Wright

2nd Under 19 Boat- Craig Hawkings- Matt Blinkhorn- Lewis Hannah- Lochy Jones- Ryan Power

2nd- Reserve Women’s boat- Craig Hawkings- Bastien Wallace- Kylee Heslop- Maddie Vitnell- Alyce Wright. For 3 of these ladies it was their 1st start for Cronulla and for Maddie her 1st race EVER.

3rd- Under 23 Men’s- Gary Allman- Matt Murray- Jono Brown- Aden Simmons- Luke Hawkings. For Jono and Matt this was their 1st ever race in a surfboat

4th Reserve Men- Craig Hawkings- Jarred McLachlan- Ryan Vanzyl- Hayden Ward- Nick Halliday

23 female- 19 female- only contested by North Cronulla( shield winners)

It was particularly pleasing for the boat section to see life members, senior executive and other interested members attend the early session to see the boaties go round for the day. It means the world to the section to see such great support from our valued leaders.