2006 SLSNSW Media Guide - Hanson Sport Media

2006 NSW SURF LIFE SAVING CHAMPIONSHIPS – MEDIA GUIDEALLUM’S EIGHT GOLD AS CRONULLA TAKES TOP HONOURSA look back at all the action from last year’s State Champs at Ocean BeachCronulla’s Chris Allum was named the Most Outstanding Male Athlete of the Carnival taking home anextraordinary eight gold, three silver and one bronze medal that included winning his second successiveOpen Surf Race title and a maiden Under-19 Ironman crown.The Allum name is an institution at the Wanda club with Chris’ father Greg winning four NSW OpenIronman titles in the 1970s and 1980s.Wanda had also been Chris’ club until this season when he made the heart-wrenching decision to switchallegiances to neighbours Cronulla because they had far more competitive teams than at his original club.The move proved a masterstroke with the powerful all rounder taking gold in the Under-19 Belt Race, SurfTeams, Taplin Relay, Board Relay as well as the Open Taplin Relay and the Lifesaver Relay to go with hisindividual wins. He was also part of three silver medal winning teams and one bronze medal winningsquad.The final victory in the Open Taplin Relay was a fitting result for Allum, Open Ironman champion NathanSmith and the entire Cronulla club who took out the overall pointscore for the second successive season.The Sutherland Shire club were outstanding in all facets of the competition throughout the entire weekendand together with the pointscore crown they won at last week’s Telstra NSW Junior Surf Life SavingChampionships they are now the undisputed premiere club in NSW.They finished with a massive 370 points exactly double the score of runners up Swansea Belmont on 185.Terrigal followed up their impressive second place at the Junior titles by finishing third on 163 with Manlyfourth on 157 and Wanda fifth with 153.Bronte’s first Open Surf Boat title in half a centuryIn other events Bronte took out their first State Open Surf Boat title in 50 years – their last one coming backin 1955. Queenscliff destroyed their opposition to easily win the Female Surf Boat and North Cronulla ‘RedBarons’ won the Reserve Grade Surf Boat race.Luke and Kim take Single Ski titlesNorth Bondi’s Luke Michael was outstanding in the Open Ski winning back-to-back titles against a worldclass field while North Curl Curl’s Kim Low won her first NSW title in the corresponding Female event. Inthe board events Avoca’s Daniel Shade edged out Cronulla’s Nathan Smith, while The Lakes’ EmmaSchneider crushed the field in the Female event.Flags just Wright for LisaOn the beach Swansea Belmont’s Lisa Wright collected her fourth straight Open Beach Flags title, GregHitchenson his first since he won in 1996, while Zane Campbell (Wanda) and Ashlee Cheney (Mollymook)won their first ever NSW Open Beach Sprint titles.Warilla teenager snares two goldIn the Male Under-19 competition Warilla- Barrack Point’s David Smith, who won the Surf Race and Board,was runner up to Allum in the Ironman and third in the Ski.Lauren stamps her future for CronullaJust a week after starring at the Telstra NSW Junior Surf Life Saving Championships in the Under-14events, Cronulla’s Lauren Davenport stepped up into the Under-15 events and outclassed girls more thana year her senior.