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New champions and familiar faces were crowned at North Avoca after a challenging but at times simply spectacular two days on the Central Coast paved the way for one of the great Surf Life Saving NSW Board Riding Championships.
After a thrilling return to the Surf Life Saving NSW Surf Sports schedule at the iconic Merewether Beach last year, the 2023 NSW Board Riding Championships looks set to be even bigger and better.
The 2022-23 Surf Life Saving season will go down as one of the most challenging on record for volunteer surf lifesavers and their Australian Lifeguard Service counterparts in NSW, who were responsible for more than 4,600 rescues along our coastline.
As flags went down across NSW beaches this week, marking the end of the patrolling season, the final days held perhaps a little more meaning at Cooks Hill SLSC in the Hunter after the announcement that the revered ‘Patrol 3’ would be ‘retiring’ from active duty.
It will be a mini-dress rehearsal for Warilla Barrack-Point SLSC ahead of the 2024 Oakberry Acai NSW Country Championships, recently announced as returning to the South Coast for the first time in nearly a decade, when the 2023 Sharkskin NSW IRB Premiership kicks off by the mouth of Lake Illawarra on 29 April.
Over 250 athletes from Surf Life Saving and swimming clubs across the state will tussle for top honours at the NSW Pool Lifesaving Championships at the Murray Rose Aquatic & Fitness Centre in Sydney this weekend.
After nearly a decade bouncing between idyllic beaches on the NSW North Coast, the 2024 and 2025 Oakberry Acai NSW Surf Life Saving Country Championships will move to a new home – that of the defending champions, Warilla-Barrack Point SLSC.
A specially designed pilot beach safety program has been successfully delivered at Coogee SLSC, as lifesavers across NSW continue to explore methods to better educate and empower communities to feel safe when visiting the coastline.
Kaylah Broadhead of Nobbys SLSC and Calum Reiter of Coogee SLSC have been named the Ingenia Holiday Parks Junior Lifesavers of the Year after three days of team building and leadership development on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
