The National Scholastic Surfing Championships are the pinnacle of junior surfing in New Zealand. The annual event is held at a different location each year. Unique to the event is the fact that surfers have to qualify to compete as part of twelve regional teams. The event is held over five days and crowns an overall team winner plus individual winners in each of the following age groups:
Under 18 Boys and Girls Divisions
Under 16 Boys and Girls Divisions
Under 14 Boys and Girls Divisions
Under 18 Longboard Division
Regional events are held throughout the country in the lead-up to the national event. These events are used for selection purposes. Dates for these events vary from region to region. Check back here or get in touch with your local coordinator, boardriders club or PE Teacher for more information.
Regional teams comprise up to twelve team members. Teams must comprise a surfer in each division with the remaining places in the team determined by each region’s strengths.
What: The 2018 National Scholastic Surfing Championships
Where: Gisborne
When: 8-12 October
Who: Twelve of the top regional junior teams from around the New Zealand coastline
How: Participants must qualify via regional events/selection and enter the national event regionally
Selection criteria for each region vary so check the selection-criteria-for-regional-scholastic-teams that have been submitted from each region.
There are scholastics coordinators in each of the twelve regions who help run the regional events and select the teams to travel to the finals. Contact details for these coordinators are set out below.
Northland
Tony Baker
021 907066
baker.buddha@gmail.com
northlandsurfing@gmail.com
Mark Pevats
027 450 3992
mark.pevats@yovich.co.nz
Auckland
Odette Dashfield
027 282 1222
odette.dashfield@gmail.com
Darrell Cox
022 061 5544
darrell@cmbuild.co.nz
Phil Wallis
027 581 2812
lionrockbdrs@xtra.co.nz
Coromandel
Jan Shanks
021 626453
jansh@whangamata.school.nz
boardriders@vodafone.co.nz
Jamie Hutt
027 514 2144
huttj@mbas.ac.nz
Bay of Plenty
Ady Van Der Beek
021 167 1667
vanderbeeknz@gmail.com
Pete Smith
021 111 8104
smith4nau@gmail.com
Waikato
Ruchelle Jungwirth
029 2006118
ruchele.michi@xtra.co.nz
Karyn Willoughby
027 4918096
karyn.raglan@xtra.co.nz
Taranaki
Jason Matthews
022 012 5943
kavareef@gmail.com
Craig Williamson
027 6874122
mail@surfingtaranaki.org
Gisborne
Florian Bub
022 407 8987
gisborneboardriders@gmail.com
Hawkes Bay
Bronson Primmer
theprimmers@xtra.co.nz
Ben Thorpe
027 423 1840
tp@hnhs.school.nz
Wellington
Ilan Fisher
021 455 131
wellington.boardriders@gmail.com
Canterbury
Rachel McCaffrey
021 02376477
rachel.mccaff@gmail.com
Aaron Lock
021 0307231
aaronlock@surfcoach.co.nz
Kimberley Mossman
027 4515502
Kimberlym@xtra.co.nz
West Coast
Robbie Barrow
robbie.focustrust@yahoo.co.nz
Otago
Mark Stevenson
021 817303
southcoastboardriders@xtra.co.nz
Jess Terrill
jessterrill@gmail.com
Karyn Asyon
Karen.Ayson001@msd.govt.nz
