Surf Club News

Surf Boat Fundraisers
Thanks to everyone who attended the recent Burger Night and Movie Night for the surf boat crews heading to the Australian Surf Rowers League's biggest events, the 'ASRL Open' in February. Your support is very much appreciated by those who have been training hard ready to race against the Australians!

Grant Recipients
The club are grateful for the support of New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT) who recently granted us some money to help our New Zealand crews out.

Club Calendars
Head to the Club Calendars page on our website for downloadable versions of the 2022/2023 Sport and Lifesaving calendars. There's also a link to our online club bookings calendar so you can see when the club is booked and for what.

Club Cleanliness
It is the responsibility of all members to keep the clubhouse clean and tidy. Please clean up after yourselves to ensure that the next users do not arrive to a mess. This includes the upstairs hall and making sure that the gear downstairs is put away.

Stormwater Management
Wellington Water are proposing an approach for reducing pollution of local harbours, rivers and streams from the council stormwater and wastewater networks. Our members are invited to have a say on the draft Stormwater Management Strategy by the end of February 2023. You can read more about it here on the Wellington Water website and fill out the survey.

Oceans Team Fundraiser - Quiz Night
Pop this in your calendars - the annual Oceans Team Quiz Night on Friday 17 February at the Titahi Bay Surf Club! $20 per person or $120 a table. The bar will be open and dinner will be available to purchase. Get in touch with Jo for tickets - 021 738 822.

Keep an eye on the Titahi Bay SLSC Nipper Facebook page for more information.

'Thriving Under Fire' is now available for all members to complete online. This is an optional additional training course made available to all members for their own personal development found in the Training Library section when you log into your Member Portal. This course is brought to you by the Thriving Under Fire (TUF) Organisation. The TUF programme is an award winning programme used in retail and service industries that has been adapted for those involved with sport and recreation.

Benestar is the counselling and wellbeing provider for SLSNZ members. All active and current members and their immediate families* have access to fully funded counselling and wellbeing resources through Benestar. Benestar have counsellors throughout New Zealand who can be selected and booked online by the user. They also can be booked by phone. Active current members include patrolling members, committee members, officials, coaches and Peer Supporters.

Surf Life Saving New Zealand has partnered with Safeswim to provide you with up-to-date information this summer. Go to the Safeswim website and click on the red and yellow flag at a beach near you for lifeguard patrol times, beach hazards, safety warnings in place, weather conditions, tides, and in some locations, water quality information.

Lifeguards @ Titahi Bay Beach
The Paid Lifeguard Service finished on Friday 27 January and the volunteer service will continue until Sunday 5 March. Please note we need lifeguards to patrol on Waitangi Day - let Georgia know if you are available. You can access the Patrol Roster here.

Advanced Surf First Aid Award
Congratulations to Steve Donkin and Diana Murfitt for recently completing their Advanced Surf First Aid qualification. This is the highest Surf first aid qualification you can get and is also known as PHEC - Pre Hospital Emergency Care. We have very few first aiders with this level of training, so it is great to add some more to the roster.

Remember you can cross-credit most first aid training from outside of Surf (i.e. work or school). Just contact member.education@surflifesaving.org.nz with evidence of your qualification and they can work with you on getting your qualifications recognised

IRB Crewperson Module
We've got our newest wave of qualified IRB crewpersons after a successful day running this module at Titahi Bay - Ashleigh, Alison, Daisy, Kirk, Logan, Alex, Conor, Joel, Felix, Conrad, Lucas, and Travis! Thanks for the examiners, instructors and drivers: Carl, Ethan, Lochie, Warren and Josh Harvey for their assistance.

Good luck to the following athletes who are competing in the Trans-Tasman surf boat competition against their Australian competition this coming weekend at Waihi!

Development Men
Conor Devery
Alex Joyce
Christian Donkin
Liam McVicar
Paul McVicar
Vs Australian Development Men from South Curl Curl SLSC

Development Women
Bernice Holford
Jaimie Balmer
Rosie Darrah
Emma Morrison
Tim Marsden
Vs Australian Development Women from Glenelg SLSC

Central Region Championships (Fitzroy Beach)

Craft Arena
Central Region Championships attracted many clubs from the top of the North Island which provided some great competition for squad who represented the Bay superbly with some excellent results and lots of fun. A big thank you to Janet, Darrel, Andrew, Carl, Kaye, Jon and Murray for the behind the scenes support, the Nipper kids that came down and supported the team and all the parents that got the kids there and kept them hydrated/fed over the two days.

Kaya 2^nd U17 flags
Pacey 4^th U15 flags
Phoebe 4^th Surf Race
James 4^th Surf Race and Run Swim Run
Emma and Phoebe 1^st U19 Board Rescue
Emma and Briana 3^rd Double Ski
Kaya, Abby, Phoebe and Emma 2^nd U19 Sprint Relay

Special mention to our U15’s, Conrad, Rylee and Pacey in their first big Senior competition, some top 10 places and Travis our U14 competing up, 7^th out of 20 in the Diamond!

Boat Arena
Open Women (Paul) - 1st Short Course, 1st Long Course
U23 Men (Paul) - 1st Short Course, 1st Long Course
U23 Men (Sam) - 2nd Short Course, 2nd Long Course
U19 Women (Brett) - 2nd Short Course, 1st Long Course

Surf Official Level 1 Award

We ask members who are interested in becoming Surf Officials to get in touch with our Pathways Coordinator, Deborah Donkin to begin the Surf Official Level 1 training.

Carnivals
It's been a busy January with two carnivals away - Junior Surf #3 at Riversdale Beach and the Central Region Junior Championships at Fitzroy Beach. We ran our first Nipper Sunday last week in Titahi Bay and it was great to be back! Results from the competitions available here.

Oceans Team Quiz Night
Get in touch with Jo for Oceans Team Quiz Night tickets (021 738 822).

Oceans Merchandise
The Oceans'23 merchandise has been released to pre-order - check it out here.

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