2024 Junior Surf Series final celebrated

Following 5 hugely successful events held around the country the 2024 Surfing England Junior Surf Series came to fitting end in Newquay. Now in its third season the finale saw a fantastic day of teaching, fun and surfing at world famous Fistral Beach on Tuesday 29th October.

From the outset the Junior Surf Series has been about creating a fun set of club supported events to encourage new as well as established surfers to get involved and gain contest experience in U12 & U14 categories. After 5 amazing events its obvious that’s exactly what its achieved. 

Invites were sent out to every series competitor who’d either won a division or placed 2nd if the winner had already qualified, and that’s how 18 frothing groms found themselves assembled on Fistrals famed sands looking at great waves excited for what was to come. 

The day kicked off with a classroom competition training session with a focus on priority surfing led by one the UKs most experienced priority judges Kerry Powell. An engaging informative session took place with lots of great questions from the youngsters.

Next it was time to hit the sand with Team England Junior coach Beau Bromham taking the athletes through warm-ups and training routines.

Then it was time to hit the water with the groms launching in to practice priority heats and a chance to rack up priority experience and build their competitive knowledge. When not in the water, the groms took their turn at the priority board, learning the intricacies of paddle battles, assigning priority and what makes an interference.

For each division there could only be one series champion, and emerging from seriously hard fought finals it was Ellie Hickie and Harvey Waters who took the crowns in the u12 Girls and Boys divisions. In the U14s Seb Whitely put on an impressive performance to take the boys title and Lila Skinner came out top at her home break to become the Girls Junior Surf Series Champion 2024.

‘It’s epic to see the Junior Surf Series giving these groms a platform to develop their competitive surfing and showcase what the best juniors in the country can achieve’ said Ben Powis, CEO at Surfing England. ‘The series has always been about growth and learning, new skills, new experiences, new friendships and the finals have illustrated that perfectly’.

Talking of sporting inspiration, who better to crown the champions and dish out the prizes than English Surf prodigy Lukas Skinner.

Surfing England Tour lead Phil Williams said “A fantastic end to another exciting year of the Junior Series, the standard over these three years continues to improve, but the fun and community continues to be a key part. This year we went to new locations , worked with fantastic surf clubs, and we can’t wait to start planning for 2025’

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