The fourth stop in the Roxy Surf Jam series
will be staged at Surfers Corner at Muizenberg
on the Cape Peninsula on the weekend September 11 & 12 and will again
feature most of South Africa’s top junior female surfing talent along with
a host of aspiring future surf stars.
The Surf Jam series has been created by Roxy, the
country’s leading women’s surfwear brand, to offer the fast growing girls
segment of the surfing population on the SA coastline an interim step
between the entry level surf schools and the Roxy Wahine Cup, the
country’s sole rated women-only surfing event.
Each tournament features competitors in Under 14,
U16, U18 and U20 age categories with many of the participants electing to
compete in more than one division in order to gain more experience or, in
the case of the top contenders, to earn more of the R10 000 total
prize-money at stake at each venue.
Cape Town’s multiple U20
surfing champion, Stacey Guy from Melkbosstrand, will be favourite for the
for the prestige U20 division of the Muizenberg event. Guy won the third
Surf jam at St Francis at the end of July, and in the absence of SA U20
champ and fellow Roxy team member Rosanne Hodge (EL) due to study
commitments, the biggest threat to her dominance will come from
Kommetjie’s Sarah Nicholson and rising star Nikita Robb from East London.
The inaugural Roxy Surf Jam series of contests
consists of six events for girls and is sanctioned by Surfing South Africa
(SSA). The series serves an important dual role for the female gender in
the sport, attracting fresh talent to competition surfing while providing
the more seasoned surfers with regular competitive opportunities, which
were previously lacking.
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