The country’s best surfing talent in the 20
years-and-younger brigade will gather in Cape Town for the third of five
events on the 2006 Billabong Junior Series.
The event has attracted a 2006 series record of 190
entries, 20 more than the Durban leg in April and 45 more than the
corresponding event in Cape Town last year, but still short of the
all-time record of 207 who entered the final event of the 2005 series in
Jeffreys Bay last August.
The huge entry has forced the organisers to start
reschedule the start of the event from 12 noon to 10am next Thursday with
the round one of the 70 strong field in the blue riband Pro Junior (Under
20) boys division taking to the surf first.
A total of over R30 000 at stake in the five age
categories has attracted a flood of entries from every corner of the SA
coastline from U12, U14, U16 and Pro Junior boys and girls. However, local
surfers will be determined to upstage their out-of-town peers in the
frigid Atlantic waves.
Reigning Pro Junior series champ and Durban local
Brandon Jackson is top seed for the event, followed by Keegan Nel (East
London), Sun Valley’s Brandon Roberts (Sun Valley), Rudy Palmboom (Bluff,
Durban), who will be flying directly from the World Junior Championships
in Brazil to Cape Town to compete, and Kommetjie’s Dave Richards and
Wesley Hall.
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