Bay Harbour: January 17, 2018

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Wednesday January 17 2018
SPORTS
PHOTO: CORY/NZ SURFING MAGAZINE
YOUNG GUN: Ava Henderson (above left) won her first national title in Gisborne in the under-14 girls category, while her mum Donna won her second national title
in the women’s over 40.
Mother, daughter win on the waves
• By Gordon FIndlater
A TRIO of local surfers have
returned home with titles after
competing at the national
surfing championship at
Makorori Beach, Gisborne, last
week.
Taylors Mistake mother and
daughter, Donna and Ava Henderson,
had the perfect family
vacation by both claiming gold
medals.
Donna won the women’s over
40 title with a score of 10.2 in
the final. She also finished third
in the longboard category. Her
daughter Ava, 12, took out her
first national title by winning
the girls under-14 section with
a score of 13.7 to finish ahead of
Levin’s Natasha Gouldsbury and
Piha’s Liv Haysom.
More impressively, Ava also
competed in the girls under-16
against much older opposition
where she held her own. She
posted the top score of 12.4 in
the heats before being eliminated
at the semi-final stage.
Donna is the founder of the
Christchurch School of Surf at
Sumner Beach.
She has been surfing since
her early 20s and won her first
national title at the age of 42 in
2017. Ava on the other hand has
now already claimed her first
national crown at just 12-yearsold.
Redcliffs resident Lucy Te
Moananui also claimed a title in
Gisborne in the women’s over 30
category.
She also finished third in the
women’s stand up paddleboard
final with a score of 9.97 behind
Stella Smith from Gisborne
and Alexis Poulter from Waihi.
Te Moananui also made it
to the semi-final stage in the
longboard.
There was also success for
Estella Hungerford, who finished
second in the women’s longboard
with a score of 6.83, behind
Auckland’s Sasha Brownlie.
Hungerford also finished fourth
in the girls under-16 final by
scoring 7.17.
RIPPING INTO IT: Estella Hungerford (left) finished second in
the women’s longboard and fourth in the under-16 girls. Lucy
Te Moananui won the women’s over 30 category and finished
third in the SUP.
PHOTO: CORY/NZ SURFING MAGAZINE
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