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Groms of the Week: Surfing America Prime Boys U14 and Girls U16 Competitors

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December 18, 2015 6:46PM
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Swell Surfing: Local Surfing America Prime Competitors Brave Big Waves, Bring Home a Dozen Trophies
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Surfing America Prime Boys U14 finalists (L to R) 1. Kade Matson (San Clemente), 2. Nicholas Coli (San Clemente), 3. Jackson Butler (Encinitas) and 4. Dimitri Poulos (Ventura) braved huge unruly surf on Dec. 12 on their way to the trophy round. Photo: Courtesy of Surfing America
Surfing America Prime Boys U14 finalists (L to R) 1. Kade Matson (San Clemente), 2. Nicholas Coli (San Clemente), 3. Jackson Butler (Encinitas) and 4. Dimitri Poulos (Ventura) braved huge unruly surf on Dec. 12 on their way to the trophy round. Photo: Courtesy of Surfing America

By Andrea Swayne

With a huge swell consistently producing waves in the 6- to 8-foot range along with the occasional set topping 10 feet, Surfing America Prime’s youngest surfers, the Boys U14 and Girls U16 divisions, turned in a collection of astonishing performances Saturday, Dec. 12, at Salt Creek Beach.

The four Boys U14 finalists—Kade Matson (San Clemente), Nicholas Coli (San Clemente), Jackson Butler (Encinitas) and Dimitri Poulos (Ventura) in first- through-fourth-place order—braved the conditions not one, but three times on their way to the podium.

Surfing America Prime Girls U16 finalists (L to R) 1. Tiare Thompson (La Jolla), 2. Alyssa Spencer (Encinitas), 3. Bethany Zelasko (Dana Point) and 4. Alexxa Elseewi (San Clemente) and fellow competitors earned some of the highest wave scores of the day in Saturday’s often double-overhead surf. Photo: Courtesy of Surfing America
Surfing America Prime Girls U16 finalists (L to R) 1. Tiare Thompson (La Jolla), 2. Alyssa Spencer (Encinitas), 3. Bethany Zelasko (Dana Point) and 4. Alexxa Elseewi (San Clemente) and fellow competitors earned some of the highest wave scores of the day in Saturday’s often double-overhead surf. Photo: Courtesy of Surfing America

The Girls U16 finalists also listed in first- through-fifth-place order—Tiare Thompson (La Jolla), Alyssa Spencer (Encinitas), Bethany Zelasko (Dana Point) and Alexxa Elseewi (San Clemente)—logged some of the day’s highest wave scores in the 6.00-point-plus range.

With such talent-stacked heats in both divisions, the competitors, finalists or not, delivered ride after ride of inspired, brave and skilled surfing.

Although San Clementeans Samantha Sibley and Kirra Pinkerton ended their U16 campaigns in the semifinals, both surfed up in the U18 division makeup heats for the postponed Church Beach event in October and made that final, taking third and fourth place, respectively. Pinkerton also moved through the regular event preliminary rounds in the huge Saturday surf to take fourth place on Sunday, Dec. 13. While surfing up in U18, this dynamic duo also received the two highest average wave scores of the event among the girls: 9.50 for Pinkerton and 8.17 for Sibley.

The skill, confidence and capability shown by these elite young surfers bodes well for the future of the Surfing America USA Surf Team.

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