THE boys' and girls' editions of the annual Woolworths Surf Camps have wrapped up at the Surfing Australia High Performance Centre, with the country's top grommets, including Culburra Beach's Keira Buckpitt, raising the performance bar across the three-day camps.
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The 20 junior surfers won the under 14 divisions during the Woolworths Surfer Groms Comps held across Australia during summer and were invited to the all-expenses paid training camps.
Attending the boys' camps were Hugh Vaughan, Nate Hopkins, Dembe Ryan, Xavier Bryce Tai Taite, Duke Wrencher, Dane Henry, Macklin Flynn, Noah Hassett and Tanner Reid, while the girls participants were Oceanna Rogers, Ruby Trew, Rosie Smart, Keira Buckpitt, Maia Taite, Cali Barrett, Zali Hewson, Leyla Sharman, Mia Huppatz and Jordy Halford.
The camps, which were run as part of Surfing Australia's High Performance Talent ID program, saw the aspiring young athletes put through their paces with a combination of surfing and video analysis, competition strategies, along with skate and tramp training.