Congratulations to all representatives.

Men's 5km and 20km paddleboard: Brad Gaul (Sydney, NSW), Lincoln Dews (Sunshine Coast, Qld)
Women's 5km and 20km paddleboard: Jordan Mercer (Sunshine Coast, Qld)
Men's 2-5km Technical SUP Race (Battle of the Paddle format, 12'6 and under boards): Jamie Mitchell (Currumbin, Qld), Kelly Margetts (Currumbin, Qld)
Men's 20km SUP Marathon (12'6 boards and under): Jamie Mitchell (Currumbin, Qld), Kelly Margetts (Currumbin, Qld)
Women's 2-5km Technical SUP Race (Battle of the Paddle format, 12'6 and under boards): Angie Jackson (Palm Beach, Qld)
Women's 20km SUP Marathon (12'6 boards and under): Angie Jackson (Palm Beach, Qld)
Men's SUP Surfing: Beau Nixon (Tweed Heads, NSW), Justin Holland (Gold Coast, Qld)
Women's SUP Surfing: Shakira Westdorp (Casuarina, NSW)
Team Manager: Jim Hughes

Surfing Australia would like to recognise the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), TravelSIM and Suncorp for their continuing support of the Team Australia Program.

Casso said...
Solid team with great results assured ... but why didn't they choose the team based on the Aussie Titles?

ditto
whats the point of the aussie?

Casso said...
Solid team with great results assured ... but why didn't they choose the team based on the Aussie Titles?

I have no particular insight into Surfing Australia's selection criteria but certainly Shakira, Beau Nixon, Angie and Kelly all won national titles so their selection validates the Aussie Titles to some extent.

You do have to feel a little empathy for Beau O'Brian and Karla Gilbert however. In Karla's case, they could only take one woman, and Angie had slightly better overall results with a win in marathon and second in technical so that's fair enough. Likewise, if it had to be a choice between Kelly or Beau, then Kelly had a slightly more consistent weekend.

Agree with the others, how do they choose this? All the guys in the sup surf final absolutely ripped it apart, what about the other 3 guys in the final?

Apart from that, the whole team looks great, very strong indeed!

Yeah, what happened to Goaty? I thought the old fellas were going this time around.

I have no questions about Brad being picked but I don't remember seeing Lincoln in Hawaii (actually never seen him in a paddleboarding race ever). I would consider either Daniel Shade (1st Maui race who beat Gauly), Jackson English (2nd Molokai) or even Zeb Walsh (2nd stock Molokai)

That's a shame. I would have loved to seen Goaty frothing it up in Peru!
However they pick it, another strong team again!

my beef with this is the wildcard
im old school but if you didnt surf or race in the state or national rounds
your out. give the guy or girl who went through the process got a result a chance
they might be the next champion?

laceys lane said...
based on the idea team members could cross over disciplines to cover in case something happens, its a very good team. jamie cross over- surfing, prone paddle. kelly cross over - prone board ,surfing.lincoln- sup racing, surfing. jordon mercer- sup racing. sharika- sup racing, prone paddle board. angie surfing(yep angie surfs pretty good). justin holland cross over- sup racing, he's done molaki and had some reasonable results


pretty handy all round team

yes great team but why bother with the aussies?

dudley78 said...
Had to look up who Lincoln Dews was. Would love to know what results he has to quantify his selection as a prone paddleboarder.

Regarding Lincoln, his inclusion would be around filling a spot in the sup if Kelly or Jamie got sick or injured.
Dont worry, the kid has got a big tick'a and will smash anyone from around the world on a prone.
It makes perfect sense to me!

PS I do feel sorry for Jackson Close:-(

rahams said...

laceys lane said...
based on the idea team members could cross over disciplines to cover in case something happens, its a very good team. jamie cross over- surfing, prone paddle. kelly cross over - prone board ,surfing.lincoln- sup racing, surfing. jordon mercer- sup racing. sharika- sup racing, prone paddle board. angie surfing(yep angie surfs pretty good). justin holland cross over- sup racing, he's done molaki and had some reasonable results


pretty handy all round team

yes great team but why bother with the aussies?

hi, i've been told its always be the aussie winner and a wildcard. you would know that.

i'm just commenting on the team.

maybe that 'pathway' everybody was banging on about has always be a bit misty.

anyway, it's the team and i'll support them

laceys lane said...

rahams said...

laceys lane said...
based on the idea team members could cross over disciplines to cover in case something happens, its a very good team. jamie cross over- surfing, prone paddle. kelly cross over - prone board ,surfing.lincoln- sup racing, surfing. jordon mercer- sup racing. sharika- sup racing, prone paddle board. angie surfing(yep angie surfs pretty good). justin holland cross over- sup racing, he's done molaki and had some reasonable results


pretty handy all round team

yes great team but why bother with the aussies?

hi, i've been told its always be the aussie winner and a wildcard. you would know that.

i'm just commenting on the team.

maybe that 'pathway' everybody was banging on about has always be a bit misty.

anyway, it's the team and i'll support them

yeah i new the wild card thing
but to me thats wrong in so many ways

teatrea said...
good on them selecting Lincon , he has had some great results in sup , and as Alley says has some results in the prone stuf too.At the end of the day how many prone paddlers are their too choose from , and he is young and guys like him are the future of the sport , why not give them the experience. If the sup organizations dont get young people involved the sports going backwards. The older blokes like Kelly , Jamie are paving the way for the next generation and the surfing Aus organization should be encouriging the young guys and girls as much as possible.

Sorry this point is lost on me. Does SUP results warrant prone paddleboard inclusion or vice versa. The inclusion of the best possible team to represent Australia should be on result/s not possibility. Kelly was picked his results as was others. Is this the best possible team. I don't think so. Does someone tell Kelly Slater just because he has had more birthdays than anyone else on tour that he should not win. When the picking of teams aren't transparent than there is an issue.

The question you ask about how many prone paddlers are there to choose from (probably a couple of hundred)

On a side note will Hawaii and the US be sending individual teams?

Good work to all those selected.

@dudley78, in regards to Lincoln. He has done Molokai prone as mentioned before, twice teams (I think) and once solo, each time prone. His solo crossing was last year, came 4th Age div and inside the top 20 overall. He has also been around the Clubbie scene for a while and up the pointy end of the field in his age group. I pretty sure he has made State SLSQ teams. He's a gun board paddler and has done pretty well crossing over into the SUP stuff. He didn't do Molokai this year as he was more focused on the shorter BOP/sprint style racing. Answer to the other question, why weren't the other place getters from Molokai Prone on the team? Perhaps they were asked, but couldn't make it. I understand thats how it was done last year, and perhaps they wanted some younger crew in the team.

Dean Hanmer

dudley78 said...
Thanks Dean

I spoke to a couple of other guys from Molokai and none of them were asked (and a bit pissed they weren't)

Regards

Tim Foran

hi,if they're from molokai , i don't see them being in an australian team