PBC leads the charge

GOLD Coast will host the Queensland School Sport Surfing State Titles from tomorrow until Sunday.

This mobile event is a chance for surfers to represent their schools and their regions in an attempt to qualify for the Queensland team.

Successful qualifiers will represent Queensland at the Australian School Surfing Titles to be held at Victor Harbour in South Australia in the first week in December.

The competition is broken into regions with accumulative point score for the best region.

Gold Coast has four regions – Broadwater, Hinterland, Oceanic (that includes favourites PBC and Miami) and Pacific Rim.

Categories consist of both under-16 and under-19 male and female categories as well as the prestigious MR Shield (named after four-time Australian world champion Mark Richards) school tag team event.

“It is such a great opportunity for students to be able to represent their schools and their regions,” Miami High event convener Rob Petersen said.

“Even though the majority of the event has surfers competing as individuals, they still take great pride in being a representative.

“The schools also enjoy celebrating the success of their students at events such as these.”

The event has an opening ceremony tonight at Palm Beach Currumbin High.

Some of the PBC High rising talents to watch out for include recent first round under-16 state winner Raya Campbell and third-placed Lucy Tandler, under-19 girls’ runner-up Shaye Leeuwndal, and under-19 boys’ runner-up Thomas Carvalho.

IT IS SUCH A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO REPRESENT THEIR SCHOOLS AND THEIR REGIONS MIAMI’S ROB PETERSEN

Picture: RICHARD GOSLING PBC’s surfing group will compete in the Queensland Championships.

Shaye Leeuwndal will be a favourite for the under-19 girls.

State runner-up in the under-19 boys, Thomas Carvalho.

PBC’s Yutaro Saito, 17, Charlotte Mulley, 12, and Kyan Falvey, 13.