Surf Life Saving New Zealand Surf Boat - Series 1 Mt Maunganui - 11th November

Sunset Beach U19 and U23 Men's Surf Boat Teams attended the1st of the New Zealand Surf Lifesaving Surf Boat Series at Mt Maunganui. The U23 team also attended the New Zealand Trials for the New Zealand Representative squad on the Saturday.  

This is their first year competing in the U23 competition and they did extremely well. Whangamata had a better day in the NZ trials but Sunday was all Sunset Beach crossing the line in prominent positions for both U19 and U23 to take out the 1st round of the series. Valuable points earned to carry to the next series at Whangamata on the 9th and 10th of December. Well done Sunset!

2017 90 Mile Beach IRB Challenge - Sunset Beach 1st and 2nd Placings

Sunset Beach Lifeguards have taken 1st and 2nd place in the endurance race along 90 Mile beach. Conditions were lumpy but the rain kept away during the race for the 36 teams that started the race.

Shane Edwards, Mark Edwards and Hogan Shrimpton were first to the finish line in 2.16 hours. 2nd place went to Lewis Powell, Taylor Shrimpton and Mikey Waldegrave with just a 3 minute gap between 1st and 2nd.

Robbie Shrimpton, Jack Morgan and Sam Hughes finished in 8th position. Glen Richards, Flynn Avery and Sam Coughlan finished 17th after flipping their boat but managing to reinstate with a new motor and finish the race.

Sunset Beach retained their first and 2nd positions from last year and top club with 398 points, Bethells with 214 points in 2nd place.

Sunset Beach Lifeguards travelled to the Australia IRB Championships 2017 - Kingscliff Beach, NSW

Sunset Beach Lifeguard Service had 4 teams travel to Australia to compete in the 2017 Australian IRB Championships held at Kingscliff Beach, NSW, 14th to 16th July.   Competitors were: Shane Edwards, Mark Edwards, Taylor Shrimpton, Robbie Shrimpton, Hogan Shrimpton, Judd Redmond, Jemima Ferrier, Olivia Andrews, Lola Key, Samantha-Jane Harding and Samantha Coughlan.

With Australian IRB Nationals up 20% in participation, 164 men's teams, 83 women's teams, our teams did very well and we can be proud of these results. North Burleigh took out the Top Club award again for the 5th year in a row, congratulations to them and thanks for supporting our crews.

Here is the final results:
Male tube rescue semi final - Shane and Mark Patient Taylor 7th
Male teams semi final - Shane Edwards, Mark Edwards, Hogan Shrimpton and Judd Redmond (Patient)
Female team semi final – Taylor Shrimpton Jemima Ferrier, Robbie Shrimpton, Olivia Andrews, Samantha-Jane (Patient) 6th
Female Mass semi final –Taylor, Jemima, Patients Lola and Judd 2nd
Female Mass final 7th

Composite Relay team sunset and New Plymouth old boys 3rd in semi final but not allowed to race in final as composite team

The team is hosted and given loan gear from North Burleigh Surf Life Saving Club.  A very big thank you for their support of our teams and congratulations to North Burleigh who were awarded Top Australian Club for the 5th year in a row.  The experience our teams gain from going to the Australian competitions is invaluable when it comes to experiencing and learning new techniques,  challenging themselves with different equipment and working on improving techniques from last years trip certainly paid off this year. Let’s hope Sunset Beach can continue their run at New Zealand Championships this coming season. 

2017 Northern Region Surf Life Saving Awards of Excellence

Trust Waikato Sunset Beach Lifeguards attended the 2017 Northern Region Awards of Excellence on Saturday 12th August at Shed 10, Auckland.

MC for the night was Malcolm Beattie who did a great job of getting through the night and all the awards up for contention.  Sunset had finalist nominations for:

Competition Team of the year – Taylor Shrimpton, Jemima Ferrier and Eva Imrie
Outstanding Contribution to Power Craft – Shane Edwards
Coach of the Year – Shane Edwards

Sunset beach had the winning finalists for Competition Team of the Year and Outstanding Contribution to Power Craft.  Our very big congratulations and well deserved for all the hard work put in.  We applaud that your efforts were recognised and were obviously popular recipients.

We were also presented the Trophy for Northern Region IRB Champions and Carolyn Edwards was recognised for her contribution to surf lifesaving with a Service Award.

Once again an outstanding result for our club members and supporters.  Congratulations to the award recipients!
 

Trust Waikato Sunset Beach Lifeguard Service Wins Top Club at Surf Life Saving NZ BP Surf Rescue Championships at Waipu Cove.

What a perfect way to end the season and retain the New Zealand Top Club Trophy for Surf Rescue.  Day two of the Surf Life Saving New Zealand BP Surf Rescue Championships saw Sunset securing 95 points to take the win from St Clair on 60 points.  Here is a link to Surf Lifesavings NZ media release: http://www.surflifesaving.org.nz/sport/news/details?f=2017/april/back-to-back-titles-for-bp-new-zealand-irb-championships-winner/

Trust Waikato Sunset Beach having been top club last season, were on show on TV 3 news hub on Saturday night, here is the link: http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2017/04/surf-clubs-gunning-for-success-at-national-lifesaving-championships.html

Lewis Powell and Hogan Shrimpton were awarded the prestigious Arancia Trophy for Top Premier Team.  They also won the Housiaux Trophy for Premier Assembly and the Don Wright Cup for the Premier Single Rescue.  Shane and Mark Edwards missed out on the Top Premier Team by 1 point, what a close battle, the points could have swung either way.   This means Sunset Beach have the two top Premier teams in New Zealand.  What an achievement for our club.  Lewis and Hogan had 2 Gold and 1 silver medal.  Shane and Mark have 1 gold and two silver.  The two teams combined in the open teams race to win Silver medal, just piped at the post for some exciting racing.

Taylor Shrimpton retained her Top New Zealand Women’s Crew title with her crewman Jemima Ferrier.  This back to back win comes after a fantastic year of racing with new crewman Jemima.  Taylor and Jemima won 3 gold medals.  Robbie Shrimpton and Olivia Andrew won silver medal in the tube rescue and placed in another final.  This was their first year paired as a team and were well rewarded.

U21 Men had finals placings adding to the teams points.  Anton Baptist and Robert Graham earned silver medal in the Mass Rescue and stood on the podiemwith Judd Redmond and Jhett Hunt who won bronze.  Judd and Jhettalso won bronze in the Single rescue.

This back to back win feels one better than last year with our Premier Men’s teams stepping up and grabbing the title with excellent performances along with the Sunset women’s crews and other team points.  The win was never going to be a given with Sunset Beach on even points with St Clair after day 1. 

These were well deserved wins with hard work put into the training and management of these teams. Big ‘Thank you’ to Shane Edwards for all his hard work as coach and team captain.  Carolyn Edwards for her mangers role.  All the support crew Jonathan Ferrier, Steve Edwards, Jeff Shrimpton, Glennys Smith, Samantha Coughlan, Caitlin Stuart and Alex Stuart . The Officials, Robert Key and Roanne Gordan.  Our president Malcolm Beattie and the clubs committee have shown fantastic support.  There are many more who helped get these teams to best in New Zealand, we thank you all.

We would like to thank our sponsors Toyota Financial Services, Tuakau ITM, NZCT and Trust Waikato who have helped make this all possible.

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