QLD Champs - 13 Years in a Row!

BMD Northcliffe took out the QLD Surf Life Saving Championships for the 13th consecutive year at North Burleigh on the weekend.

The 3 day event saw the best of the best from QLD in the U17 - Open age groups as well as Masters competition (30+) which was held on Friday.

BMD Northcliffe tasted great success in the major finals package on Sunday with Lucas Allan taking out the Open Male Surf Race, Cory Hill the Open Male Ski Race, Rebecca Creedy the Open Female Board Race, Harriet Brown claiming gold in the Open Ironwoman and our open men taking out the final event of the competition - The Taplin Relay.

Our boat section had a successful carnival with our U19 crew winning gold and our Reserve Grade crew winning silver.

Standout competitors were Alyssa Koenen (4 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze), Nik Green (4 gold, 1 silver), Hannah Sculley (3 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze) and Harriet Brown (3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze). 

A small team of masters took on testing conditions in competition on Friday to finish 4th overall on the pointscore. Lee Vrolyks won 5 gold and a silver and Allan Nicholls 4 gold and 2 bronze. Hopefully we have a full strength team to defend out Australian title in a months time at Maroochydore.

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2016 Youth Champs Wrap Up

The 2016 QLD Youth Surf Life Saving Championships were held on the weekend in testing conditions at North Burleigh. BMD Northcliffe sent a team of 84 nippers to compete against more than 1,750 other nippers from all over QLD in the event, which is the pinnacle sporting event each year for Queensland nippers aged 11 to 15 years old.

Not only were our nippers battling tricky conditions in the surf, they were also faced with blue bottles on the first day of competition which eventually led to the suspension of water events. Prior to water events being postponed, BMD Northcliffe won 2 golds in the U12 Male Cameron Relay and U11 Female Surf Teams. Eva Parish also went on to win gold in the U11 Female 1km Beach run.

Water events resumed on Saturday morning with the blue bottles disappearing overnight much to the relief of our nippers. The majority of races held on Saturday were heats and qualifying events for Sunday’s finals but we added another two gold to the haul in the U15 Female Cameron Relay and U14 Male Cameron Relay.

Sunday saw the under 11 and under 12 water events relocated to North Kirra in the interest of safety. Another 5 gold medals were won on the final day of competition with Caitlyn Miller taking gold in the U13 Ironwoman, Jordan Sergis in the U14 Ironman & Surf Race along with golds in the U14 R&R and U14 Male Board Relay.

Stand out competitors for the carnival were Jordan Sergis (4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze), Eva Parish (2 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze) and Emily Gauld (1 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze). BMD Northcliffe finished 3rd overall in the pointscore behind Sunshine Coast Club’s, Maroochydore and Alexandra Headlands.

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Thank you to all our age managers, assistants, officials, water safety, IRB and parents who enable our nippers to compete.

Good luck to our U14s and U15s who will go on to race at the Australian Youth Championships in April.

Shannon Eckstein Dominates Kellogg's Ironman Series

Shannon Eckstein has taken out his 9th Nutri-Grain Ironman Series in a dominant performance at North Cronulla on the weekend. Shannon took out the final two rounds to make it 5 wins from 6 starts this season, his worst performance being a 2nd place. He finished on top of the pointscore by a staggering 29 points! 

Eckstein’s series loss to Surfers Paradise ironman Ali Day by 1 point last season put fire in his belly and has been at least partly responsible for his resurgence and at 32 years of age he is not ready to retire just yet.

Shannon's performance cements his title of greatest ironman in history.

In the women's series, Maddy Dunn was our highest place athlete in 5th place overall with Harriet Brown in 7th and former series champion Courtney Hancock in 9th.

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Round 1 of the Nutri-Grain Series will be aired on Channel 9 at 10:30am (QLD time) this Sunday 24 January.

Photo courtesy of Harv Pix

BMD Northcliffe - 2015 Australian Champions

BMD Northcliffe has won the Australian Champion Club Trophy continuing its unbeaten record for 12 straight years. The club came away with 16 gold medals, 24 silver medals and 14 bronze medals to win by 151 points from Newport.

Shannon Eckstein cemented his place in history as the greatest ironman of all time by winning his seventh Open Ironman Title, overtaking Trevor Hendy's record of six titles. 

Our surf teams dominated with the Open Male teams winning and claiming bronze, our Open Female teams finishing 1st, 2nd and 5th and our U19 and U17 Female teams both picking up gold and our U19 male team claiming silver.
 

Megan Kreuter and Danielle McKenzie both had a great carnival coming away with three gold medals. Nikolas Green claimed 8 medals and Hannah Sculley came away with 7 medals including two gold medals each.Other top performers who claimed at least 2 gold medals were Shannon Eckstein, Eliza Smith, Jordan Harrison, Rebecca Creedy, Greta Petersen and Devon Halligan. 

 

The weekend prior our U15s and U14s competed in the Youth Championship. Our young members did the club proud coming away with 6 medals in total, 4 of them being gold. Georgia Moore and Jarrod Shute were our stand out performers coming away with two golds each.

Earlier in the week, our Masters retained their Australian Championship Title with a convincing 114 point win over Noosa. The women led the charge with Lee Vrolyks claiming 9 golds, Tiarne Smith with 7 golds and Anna Ballara with 5 golds. 

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2015 QLD Surf Rescue Championships

Congratulations to our Surf Rescue Team took out the overall pointscore at the 2015 QLD Surf Rescue Championships at Alexandra Headlands on the weekend. Our U17 Patrol Team led the charge claiming gold in their event. Our two open teams both finished on the podium with a silver and a bronze and our U15 Patrol Team claimed bronze.

In the individual events Jarrod Shute took out the U15 Male Champion Lifesaver with Jack Moore in second place. Zach Brown claimed victory in the U19 Male Champion Lifesaver and Trent Rowe took out the 30-39 event. Other individual medalists included Kathryn McKenzie - Silver in Open Female, Laura Brown - Silver in U17 Female, Lucas Allan - Bronze in Open Male and Georgia Moore - Bronze in U15 Female.

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2014/15 Nutri-Grain Series Wrap Up

Shannon Eckstein did everything he could to claim his 9th Ironman Series title, taking out the final round of the Ironman Series in Newcastle. All he could do is wait to see who filled the minor places to seal his fate but unfortunately Ali Day followed in 2nd place which was enough to secure him his maiden title with Shannon trailing by just 1 point in the overall standings. Tanyn Lydon finished in 9th place overall just missing out on automatic qualification in to the series next season on a count back. After missing 2 rounds of the series with injury, Caine Eckstein will be hoping for a wild card in to the series next year or he will have to qualify through the trials. 

In the women's series, Rebecca Creedy had her best series to date with a race victory in Round 4 along with consistent results throughout to finish runner up in the overall standings. Harriet Brown also showed her consistency finishing in 3rd place overall with Courtney Hancock in 4th place and Maddy Dunn in 6th place. All of these girls have earned automatic qualification in to the series next season. 

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Nutri-Grain Series Update

After 4 rounds of the Nutri-Grain Ironman Series, Shannon Eckstein is still in the hunt to claim his 9th Ironman Series win. After a disappointing start to the series with an 8th in Round 1, Shannon has clawed back the points with three podium finishes including two wins. Shannon currently sits in second place, only 2 points behind Mooloolaba's, Ali Day, heading in to the final two rounds at Newcastle.

Rebecca Creedy is having a fantastic season following on from her 2nd placing in the Coolangatta Gold a few months ago, claiming her first ever Series race win in round 4 at Surfers Paradise on the weekend. Rebecca also sits in 2nd place on the pointscore heading in to the final two rounds. Harriet Brown's consistency across the first 4 rounds has her sitting comfortably in 3rd place overall with Maddy Dunn in 5th and Courtney Hancock in 6th.

The final 2 rounds of the series will be held at Newcastle on the 3rd and 4th of January, 2015.

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