Second Semester

With the USSA Surf Championships now behind us the club can look forward to the second semester. And it’s going to be jam packed as usual.

The third term is the traditional party term at Stellenbosch and for all the surf club members that means a braai or two at 33 Cluver, a trip to Elandsbaai and one or two friendly exchange students. So keep an eye on the Facebook page because Andrew will be keeping you posted.

For the new members the busses will be going to Strand on Tuesdays and Thursday. And we offer beginner surf lessons through the very competent team at Son Surf, so please sign-up if you are keen. All you need to do is email either Andrew at surf@sun.ac.za or Candice at candicea@sun.ac.za

Brad Beck Wins The University Surfing Champs

Brad Beck

Now that the damp wetsuits are dry and the dings in the boards have been patched, we can look back on the 2011 University Sport South Africa Surf Championships. It was a competition packed with great surf, the ecstasy of victory and the pain of elimination. For the Maties team unfortunately the former was tasted more regularly than the latter, but once again Lisa Mace’s progressive surfing helped the team to a top three finish.

The 2011 edition was hosted by the George Campus of NMMU at the legendry Southern Cape break, Victoria Bay. Teams from UCT, CPUT, Varsity College, Rhodes University, NMMU, UKZN and of course Stellenbosch, gathered on the evening Sunday the 26^th of June for the opening function, before taking to the water on Monday morning for round one. In the first round the Maties men did remarkably well in sizable and difficult conditions. Of the eight men only Nic Van Wyngaard, who made a disastrous tactical decision, was relegated to the repo-change round. Nic made up for his first round mistake in the second round by winning his heat and thereby joining the rest of the team in round three.