2009 Surf Shop Team Rider Challenge Results

The results of the inaugural Surf Shop Team Rider Challenge for the Outer Banks district were announced on Sunday, December 5th at the end of the season district awards banquet held at the Hilton Hotel in Kitty Hawk.

The contest idea was created by long-time district competitor, Outer Banks native and Pit Surf Shop team rider, Jason Breiholz. The basic idea was to put surfers that were sponsored by the local surf shops in a year long competition that earned points through the ESA district contests. As each surf shop team rider earned points through the season, the final standings of each surfer in their district division converted to points towards the surf shop they were sponsored by. At the end of the season, all the team riders points were tallied and an overall champion was crowned. Breiholz was noted in saying "It was a great experience to put together a competition of this kind and I look forward to making this an annual event that motivates surf shop team riders to represent their surf shops through local competition. It seemed that all the surf shop team riders and managers were stoked on the idea and I'd like to thank our district directors Jay Hawekotte and Julie Leavel for letting me incorporate this event into our district contests."

Corolla Surf Shop Owner, Gary Smith, and team manager, Greg Sherman were very pleased with the results as Corolla Surf Shop just squeaked out a victory over The Pit Surf Shop and Whalebone Surf Shop. Smith noted that he was very pleased with how Sherman has reorganized the team over the past two years.

Below are the final results of the Surf Shop Team Rider Challenge.

Final Standings
1st Place-Corolla Surf Shop
2nd Place- Pit Surf Shop
3rd Place- Whalebone Surf Shop
4th Place- WRV
5th Place- Secret Spot
6th Place- OBBC
7th Place- 158
8th Place- DVO

Happy Turkey Day

End of year banquet

Our end of the year banquet to celebrate are season is set for Sunday, December 6th at 5:00 at the Kitty Hawk Pier House. $13 for each person. Raffle tickets are 1 ticket for $2 or 3 tickets for $5. Please let me know if you are attending.

Contest 7 results in newspaper

Check out today's OB Sentinel for results and pics of our last contest.

Principal of the Year

A big congrats to Ray Gray, Principal of Cape Hatteras Elementary School and Legends Surfer of our district, on winning Principal of the Year for Dare County!!! Way to go Ray!!!

Contest #7 Results

"Jackie Chan and Capt. Morgan"

Contest #7 was held on Saturday, October 31st at Hargrove st. in South Nags Head in once again very fun surf. The Outer Banks district has scored in the last 3 events, having really fun conditions for each contest. For the final contest of the 2009-20010 district season, the surf was 2'-3' with the occasional 4' set. The winds were forecasted to be strong from the south, but held off just enough to keep conditions clean to semi-clean all day. The lowering tide during the contest produced some dumpy barrels, but unlike contest #6 a few weeks ago, no boards or bones were broken. As a bonus, Seth Burnett was on site to catch all the action. Visit www.sethburnettphotography.zenfolio.com to see the photos for the day.

"Which one is the tacky tourist?"

Since this contest was held on all hallowed eve, there was a special event that went down at noon. Both adults and groms joined in for 2 heats to battle for the "Best Costume Award" and "Best Trick in a Costume Award". For the groms, Morgan Taylor Leavel won "Best Trick" as he did his best impression of "Captain Morgan". In the adult category, Joe Gillen won "Best Trick" during his heat. Best Costumes were awarded to Jackie Thomas for her "Jackie Chan" costume and Elizabeth Payne as a "Tacky Tourist".

Who would win in a fight? Jackie Chan or Tacky Tourist??

Though fun was being had during the Halloween antics, many local surfers were a bit more serious as important points towards regional qualification and the newly added "Surf Shop Team Rider Cup" were on the line. In the largest and most competitive division, the Open division, the same faces seemed to make the final. Pat Mcmanus edged out Jason Breiholz for his third consecutive victory. Julian Payne finished a close third and other finalists were Joe Gillen, Reese Patterson, and Prescott Metcalf.

In other highly competitive divisions, the Juniors battled it out with Julian Payne coming out on top over Morgan Taylor Leavel. These two young surfers have dominated this division since contest #1.

In the Boys division, Daniel Brake surfed an excellent heat against Christian Van Vliet and new Pit Surf Shop team rider Grant Tyler. Brake was able to score two excellent waves and take the win over Van Vliet and Tyler.

Quentin Turko again showed his dominance in the Menehune division taking another solid win, catching several rides that scored extremely high according to the judges.

In the Sr. Mens division, Jason Breiholz scored his 6th win of the season over Pit Surf Shop owner/manager Steve Pauls. Pauls put up an excellent fight against Breiholz as he caught several high scoring waves, but it was Breiholz's first and last wave of the heat that put him in first securing the divisional title.

Reese Patterson scored double victories for the day in the Grandmasters and Masters Longboard division.

The awards banquet is scheduled to be December 5th or 6th at the Hilton in Kitty Hawk. The top 6 surfers in each division will be recognized and district also gives several specialty awards. The inaugural Surf Shop Team Rider Cup will also be awarded during the banquet recognizing the surf shop team riders that scored the most points during the district season.

Complete results are listed below.

Menehune
1 Quentin Turko
2 Jahfar Christ
3 Nohea Futrell
4 Beau Douglas

3A Boys
1 Daniel Brake
2 Christian VanVliet
3 Grant Tyler
4 Ryan Jones
5 Joey Gillen
6 Hunter Matthews

3A Juniors
1 Julian Payne
2 Morgan-Taylor Leavel
3 Dillon Pratt
4 Michael Foard
5 Hunter Whitfield
6 Max Lingg

Masters
1 Prescott Metcalf

Senior Men
1 Jason Breiholz
2 Steve Pauls
3 Brad Higginbotham
4 Brian Breiholz
5 Lewis Molton
6 Greg Sherman

Grandmasters
1 Reese Patterson
2 Joe Gillen
3 Jay Hawekotte
4 Ricky Brake

Legends
1 Ray Gray
2 Gary Smith

Open Shortboard
1 Pat McManus
2 Jason Breiholz
3 Julian Payne
4 Joe Gillen
5 Reese Patterson
6 Prescott Metcalf

Girls
1 Codie Patterson

Jr Women
1 Jackie Thomas

Women
1 Jeanne-Marie Destefano
2 Chrissy Swain

Ladies
1 Cayce Patterson
2 Jessica Delosreyes

Menehune Longboard
1 Joey Gillen
2 Ryan Jones
3 Beau Douglas
4 Hunter Matthews

Jr Longboard
1 Morgan-Taylor Leavel
2 Hunter Whitfield

Mens Longboard
1 Prescott Metcalf

Masters Longboard
1 Reese Patterson
2 Joe Gillen
3 Steve Pauls
4 Jason Breiholz
5 Greg Sherman
6 Brian Breiholz
7 Scott Williams

Legends Longboard
1 Ray Gray
2 Jay Hawekotte
3 Gary Smith

Ladies Longboard
1 Cayce Patterson

Menehune Bodyboard
1 Joey Gillen
2 Beau Douglas

Open Bodyboard
1 Charles Shelton
2 Brian Breiholz
3 Joey Gillen

Battle of the Banks Update

The contest is set to go down on Saturday "somewhere" on Pea Island. The official site has not been determined as the contest directors will look for the best possible conditions. Good luck to the Outer Banks team and our ESA District members that are part of the team. (Julian Payne, MT Leavel, Reese Patterson, Pat McManus, Jason Breiholz, Chris Macdonald, Jesse Fernandez)

A new format to the contest was added late this week due to the change in the number of surfers from originally 20 down to only a team of 15 surfers from each county(VB and OBX). Contest directors have decided to have an additional qualifier or "surf off" for the remaining 3 spots on the team. The 8 qualifiers and alternates from the Outer Banks Pro Contest will surf a heat in the morning and the 3 highest placers in that heat are added to the 12 invitees for the team of 15 in the "Main Event".

Stay informed by visiting www.surfkdh.com or www.easternsurf.com