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News - The Inaugural FOX Grom Shoot-out

After a fortnight of torrential rain, driving winds, horribly ugly humungous surf bought in by yet another 'East Coast Low' system things weren't looking all that flash for the timing of the inaugural Fox Grom Shoot-Out as part of the Lake Macquarie City Games for 2011. In fact, the timing couldn't have worked out better. Day 1 dawned to the first sunny day in 2 weeks. No clouds, no rain, the best possible wind (Westerly – straight offshore !) and a healthy 2.0m+ swell. The waves were insane !..........and not just for Day 1 but over the entire weekend, the sun kept blazing, the favourable winds kept blowing and the perfect waves just kept cranking, corduroy to the horizon.

The prospect of surfing 3 times before any elimination took off like the proverbial 'house on fire' with the field full (148 entrants) back in April and over 100 knocked back after we'd reached the 3 day, under this new format limit.

The brainchild of Club Member Mark Radford who along with his entire family worked tirelessly for a good 6 months leading up to the event to get it off the ground and maximise it's value and appeal to both sponsors and entrants alike. Well they came in droves with the 'double banking' system used on all 3 days to fit everything in in the shortened winter daylight hours.

Event major sponsor Fox could hardly fail to be impressed with the perfect weather, perfect waves and massive response and have already signed on for next year............bigger, better !! The kids were all smiles. They'll be back !

Results

Girls: 1st Zoe Clark (Torquay, Vic), 2nd Coco Beeby (Scott's Head), 3rd Alyssa Lock (Kingscliff), 4th Indianna Green (North Entrance)

Boys Under 12: 1st Mitch Raymond (Curl Curl), 2nd Jack Murray (Lennox Head), 3rd Sandon Whittaker (Avalon), 4th Kurtis Vaughan (North Shelley)

Boys Under 14: 1st Zac Wrightman (Avalon), 2nd Jarod Hickle (South Coast), 3rd Nathan Martin (Tea Tree), 4th Nathan Cook (Cronulla)

Under 16 Boys: 1st Jack Germain (Port Macquarie), 2nd Louis Gillick (Byron Bay), 3rd Tom Campbell (Cronulla), 4th Jackson Carey (North Narrabeen)

Boys Under 18: 1st Kurtis Herman (Anna Bay), 2nd Jack Scollard (Lake Munmorah), 3rd Jordan Bulmer (Shelley Beach, 4th Josh Radford (Catho)

Best Tube Awards went to Jordan Constantino (Maroubra), Josh Radford (Catho) and Zane Clifford (Gold Coast, Qld)

Highest Scoring Heat Day 1 – Teague Robinson (Avoca)

Highest Scoring Heat Day 2 – Luke Condon (Stanwell Park)