Kristiana received confirmation that she has been accepted by Sports Education and Development Australia in the Surfing Victoria Sports Development Program.

seda.edu.au/

With a rediculous number of applications for 16 positions and being a Girl SUPer she is pretty stoked to say the least!

Over the next 3 years she will be receiving coaching from Surfing Victoria elite coaches, be involved in event management including working on the Rip Curl Pro, Billabong Pro Junior, Rip Curl Grom Search. Kristi will also complete courses including Sports Medicine Australia Level 1, Jet Ski Handling, RLSSA Bronze Medalian, Level 1 Surf coaching and Level 1 Surf Judging and a Cert IV in Sports and Recreation and Diploma of Sport Development at Deakin University.

Thank you to all the Breezers who have helped along the way!

DJ, Lacey, DC, Session, Revvin, SUP Club, Sup Bus, LSD, Sam111, Robdog, Adog, Boylos, Jacko, Angie, Ali, AA, Bornda Steve and many others.

You guys rock!

Phill and Kristi

fantastic news guys, Congratulations Kristi.

Look forward to seeing you out on the water soon and hopefully having you along to share some of the mountains of knowledge you will no doubt be collecting along the way with our members.

Great stuff!

fanastic news

i can see kristi next year going lacey, lacey , lacey- what are you doing,give me that paddle/board and watch

seriously, every vid and photo i see kristi has just got better and better and she is already very good.its been a thrill to see

pleased to see they cover the whole spectrum too
cheers

Congrats , amazing how hard work and dedication pay off.No doubt she will inspire a whole lot of young women to take up the awesome sport of stand up paddling

Awesome news .... and well done Kristi .... I'm stoked for yah !.....

Boylos

That's fantastic, congrats Pages. I hope and trust this will be the launch pad for many adventures to come.

Wonderful news. What a proud dad!

Stoked for you great news

Congratulations Kristi & Phill!

A great opportunity and reward for the hard work done, and much hard work to come, no doubt.

Tim

Thanks Phill.. and congrats Kristi.. That's awesome..

DJ

Awesome News Phil n Kristi! Way to go girl!

I also want to thank a few special people who really steped outside the box and believed in a skinny little girl who made it her goal to go to SEDA 2 years ago!

These people are sponsors advisors and great friends who wrote Kristi commercial references:
Casso Australian Paddle Surfer Mag, Pieter Ploy SUPWorld, Michael Lance St Kilda SUP Bus, Rich Bartle Strapper Surf, Peter and Kat Hogg Hive Swimwear, Sam Williams Kialoa Paddles and Hinano Surf Wear, Ronda Wilson Victorian Marching Association, Tania Van Megchelen Phsycology, Carina and Elvin Slavic Kahuna.

Surf and Race Coaches:
Adam Robertson Elite Surf Coaching, Cam Lamperd and Matt Lumley Surf Sessions Coaching, Mark Waldeck Technique analaysis via internet, Sam Williams Race Coaching, Heather Peck Surf Coaching.

Custom Shapers:
Dale Chapman for shaping an insane board, David Boyd Imperial Surf for shaping Kristi's first SUP. Dean Snow Air Wave Race Board (Bush Mechanic, Yoda)

People who helped out in many different ways that helped make this possible
Melissa and Jason Mc Manus 2nd Mum and Dad at Sup Comps, David John Peterson never ending stoke enthusiam thats infectious got Kristi into racing and going to comps like Mambo etc, Darren Murf Murphy for introducing us to SUP, Kevin McCoughtry for always being there and doing some thing out of the blew that you just needed to happen and you hadn't thought about it yet. Emma Webb awesome competitor and without who we would not have a womens comp in Victoria. Angie and Jacko advice pointers and 100 other things, Bournda Steve for being Bournda Steve, Stuart Murray for getting us the Vortice. Aiden and Adam (Naish) Mambo 2009 for awarding Kristiana the 8.0 and really fueling her belief in herself. Alison Fullagar for just being Ali. The West Coast and East Coast SUP Crew for 4 years of pure fun and adventure.

Kim, Shaynesha and Niki Page for putting up with early mornings, comps, being late home and 1000 other things we love you!

I am sure I missed some people and if I did its truely not intentional we honestly appreciate all the help we have had along the way!

Thank you all for helping Kristi achieve her goal.

Phill

Congrats Kristi,

A credit to you for your hard work with your SUPing and your great results at school.

Also a credit to Phill and Kim with the excellent upbringing of their 3 girls.

Well done Kristi, from us all at the SUPWORLD Magazine team.. We look forward to some great happenings in the future

This is absolutely fantastic news, an excellent result!
Great job to all the Page family!!

Mick

Congratulations Phil and Kiristi,the word Pioneer comes to mind and I mean this in the nicest possible way,Pioneers ofter pave the way for ours,well done