2016 Bill Wynne Scholorship to Queensland Australia

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2016 Bill Wynne Scholorship to Queensland Australia

The Bill Wynne Memorial Scholarship has been created in memory of Bill Wynne,   a local farmer who generously gifted a sum of money to the Sunset Beach Lifeguard Service of New Zealand with the request it be put towards development of the club.     The scholarship, administered by the Sunset Beach Lifesaving Charitable Trust, is used to enable developmental opportunities for emerging Sunset Beach lifeguardswho demonstrate outstanding leadership potential.    

The scholarship funds a lifeguard educational programme for two Sunset Beach Lifeguards to     visit Australia's Central or Gold Coast beaches to expand their knowledge of Surf Lifesaving and increase their personal development skills.    

This year’s recipients are:     Taylor Shrimpton and Grace Poole

Taylor and Grace leave for Australia this weekend for a week, we wish them well.

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Sunset Beach IRB Teams - Retain title at Northern Region Champs at Waipu Cove

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Sunset Beach IRB Teams - Retain title at Northern Region Champs at Waipu Cove

Sunset Beach Lifeguards have won the Northern Region IRB (Inflatable Rescue Boat) top club title for the 4th year in a row.

A team of lifeguards from Sunset Beach travelled to Waipu Cove for the Northern Region IRB Championships.  There were two open men’s teams and two women’s teams.  There were five other clubs from the region competing.

The women’s team of Taylor and Robbie Shrimpton, won all of the women’s events, Tube, Mass, Assembly and Single Rescues.  The B team, Nikayla Poole and Jazz Craddock, came third in the Tube and Assembly Rescue.

The open men’s A team, Shane and Mark Edwards, won the Assembly Rescue and came second in the Mass and Single Rescue.  The men’s B team, Lewis Powell and Hogan Shrimpton, won the Single Rescue, came second in the Assembly rescue and third in the Tube Rescue.

The club A team, Shane and Mark Edwards, Lewis Powell and Hogan Shrimpton, also won the Opens team’s event with the B team, Taylor and Robbie Shrimpton, Nikayla Poole and Jazz Craddock coming third.

The club were also supported by wonderful patients, Izzy Lempriere, Gaby Marshall, Jacob Pullen, Robert Graham, Jhett Hunt, Judd Redmond, Lola Key and Anton Baptist.

The team would like to thank their team officials, Robert Key, David Craddock and Julie Roulston, and all of the supporters who came to watch.

Click here for more photos of the event on our facebook page

The next event is the North Island Championships at Waipu Cove on the 13th February.

Overall club points
1st Sunset Beach - 48
2nd Bethells Beach - 24
3rd United North Piha - 12
4th Omaha - 6
5th Mairangi Bay - 3
6th Kariotahi - 0

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Sunset Beach U19 Surf Boat Crews - Doing well on the points table

Two Sunset Beach U19 crews travelled to the Whangamata Classic to compete in stormy conditions and Red Beach for the Owen Chapman Competition.  

The Sunset Young Guns had a second overall for the Surf Boat Series as follows: U19 Men: Surf Boat Series. Titahl Bay SLSC (Darryn Stapleton, Callum Watter-Pointer, Sam Findlater, J’Adoube Elkington, Kyle Lang) 1, Sunset LS (Carl Morgan, Jack Morgan, Ryan Brash, Jack Boulton, Sam Hughes, Ted Marsh) 2, Piha SLSC (Benji Lines, Finna McIntyre, Kaveen Hanthi, Joseph Jacob, Mark Bourneville) 3. 

The Sunset Young Guns are leading the U19 Boat Series points table after 2 rounds with two to go and the Sunset Hipsters are 4th.  Next two series as follows:
Round 3 - North Island Boat Champs 6th - 7th February at Waihi Beach
Round 4 - Piha Big Wave 27/2/2016 - Piha

Come along and support our teams!

Click on this link to go to see video with our team in action at the Whangamata Classic: www.stuff.co.nz/.../wild-surf-produces-dramatic-whangamata-surf-boat- spectacular

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