Punching above their weight

IT WAS an eventful finish to this summer’s Ocean Assault series as some of Australia’s top surf athletes hit the beach at North Burleigh over the weekend.
The Surf Sports series saw more than 250 athletes compete across the two day event, with the finals on Sunday.
Ocean Assault is a three-part series with the first two rounds held earlier in the year and the third round held last Saturday.
Teams from Newport to Noosa competed in the three carnivals, with Sunshine Beach Surf Club entering ten competitors, all of whom made it through to the finals on Sunday.
It was a good weekend for Sunshine Beach Surf Club with the club’s young team, aged either 16 or 17, competing against 21-year-old athletes, and team member Nick Slowman taking out first place in the open surf race.
Other winners included Zac Barwicki who took third place in the under-17 surfboard race, Brock Redwood who came third in the under-17 surf-ski race, with Tom Emanuel in sixth place, Ben Ashman seventh and Zion Pettigrove in at eighth.
In the under-17 surf race, Nick Slowman came in second and Brock Redwood came fifth, while Nick also secured fifth place in the under-17 ironman race.