Talks with Sunshine Beach SLSC head coach Wes Berg tells us that they are very happy with the results of the season opener of the Queensland Beach Series Round 1 held at Burleigh Heads Mowbray Park.
“After a few seasons of beach squad development, we were able to enter for the first time a QBS and U15 and U17 female relay team as well as a U17 male relay team. All teams performed strongly and will continue to work together during the season. Our strong off-season sprint and flags training are starting to shine with some great individual improvement.”
Special mention to the U14 girls Aalia Jones and Ava Futcher, who competed up an age group, the U15s age group and held their own along side out other U15s, Skye, Mimmi, and Abby. Also, congratulations to Aalia who earned her way into a very fast beach final. After a big 2021 season, the jump up into the U17s for Xavier Dillewaard and Hamish Giles, was a tough introduction to senior competition but they continued to show good strength and form.
Xavier finished second in the U17 male beach sprint, third in the U19 beach sprint and sixth in the U17 beach flags, with Hamish seventh. For Sunshine, these results are very encouraging and it will be interesting to see how they perform at the QBS 2 at Mooloolaba on 3 December.
These results are somewhat different to the usual, results as over the years their major results have usually been board and swimming. We wish them well.
Noosa Senior Athletics
Terrific state relays results on Saturday from the senior Noosa Athletics Club. They had eight track teams and two long teams, competing against all of Queensland. Open men’s and women’s 4x100m, U18 men’s and women’s 4×100, open men’s and women’s 4×400, U18 men’s 4X400, and U18s women’s long jump and U16 men’s long jump.
The Noosa club picked up four medals and a close fourth in the open men’s 4x100m. Medal winners for the women’s open 4x100m was a bronze (Samantha Johnson, Kristie Edwards, Angeline Blackburn, Megan Marrs) Open women’s 4x400m silver (Casey Payne, Angeline Blackburn, Kristie Edwards, Mailee Scott Jones), U18 womens 4x100m silver (Mailee Scott-Jones, Dianne Ladewig, Harley Davis, Jennifer Laidwig) and U18 women’s long jump bronze. This is a combined distance of three team members longest jumps (Marilee Scott- Jones, Dianne Laidwig, Jennifer Ladewig).
Head coach Mick Hooper was more than pleased with the overall results.
“These were great results from our small club with a lot of athletes running up age groups to make a team and now our future is looking bright. Noosa’s Little Athletics will have their turn this weekend at the Queensland Little Athletics State Relay Championships in Brisbane.”
With the continued big improvement of both the Sunshine Beach SLSC beach team and the Noosa Athletics Club, it would be good to see, (if things get back to normal) both competing at the Noosa Gift Track and Field Carnival next year. Several seasons ago, the Alex SLSC competed at the Noosa Gift with great success.
Rowing
On 17 December, boat crews from all up the coast will assemble at Tugun to contest Round 2 of the Queensland Cup and Noosa will be well represented with six crews hitting the water. With crews from U19 to Masters, Noosa crews will thus ensure that a tradition started back in 1949, is still going strong.
For this carnival Noosa will launch two U19s men’s, one U19 women’s, one U23 women’s, one women’s reserve grade, plus masters.
It is good to see the women’s crew, who travel down from Yeppoon to not only row for Noosa, but also do beach patrols on Noosa’s Main Beach, are once again competing.
To cover all aspects of sport in lifesaving, it was good to see our little people, the Nippers aged eight to 10 years in attendance at the Saturday Nipper Carnival, hosted by our governing body the Sunshine Coast Branch, on Noosa’s Main Beach. A large number of bclubs were in attendance.
As usual the Nippers contested both water and beach events.
It would be interesting to check back over the years and count the number of eight to 10s age groups, that are now, not only pursuing a career in the ranks of their senior club, but also as full-time professional lifeguards. A big well done to all Nipper parents.
