By Ron Lane
In what can only be described as outstanding members of the Noosa Heads surf life saving competition teams have been recording great results. While the boat crews were winning medals at the recent Australian Surf Rowers League Championships (now the biggest boat carnival in Australia) held at Elouera Beach in both masters and U19 divisions the 10 members of the Surf Rescue Competitors Team finished third overall in the state; and in the first aid section the Teams were not just winning they were making club and state history by making a clean sweep of every First Aid event
In the U15 division Billy Goulding and Joey Glassock won gold and Grace Bekker and Sophie Orstadius won silver; U17 Lilly Tindal and Lara Porter won gold and Tilly Giblett and Majayha Hamblin 4th. In the U19 Lilly Tindal and Lara Porter again won gold with Tilly Giblett and Majayha Hamblin silver.
Then in the Open Division Lilly Tindal and Lara Porter did the unbelievable by winning the gold, thus giving them the gold medal in all three divisions; U17, U19 and the Open. This has never been achieved before. To finish off Lara came 4th in the U17 Champion lifesaver. In the Patrol competition Noosa in the U15 finished 6th and in U17 4th.
For the First Aid teams the major factor has to be head coach Lenore Grice. This remarkable lady already a member of the National Coaching Hall of Fame first came into prominence, when in1986 as a first aid coach she took Chrissie Dunn and Mark Trotman to the gold medal at Moana in South Australia.
Then to cap it off Noosa’s Lana Rogers took the bronze medal in the overall series results in the prestigious Nutri-Grain Ironwoman Championship of Australia at Sydney’s Wanda Beach. This has been a great year for this lady has also won two major swim events.
