7 to 17 with Lizzy

10 years ago this month, Lizzy decided to put a sticker on the board of a little surfer girl from the South Coast, that girl was me!

I don't remember much of my life with out Lizzy being involved.

I didn't really know much about what being sponsored meant at the time, but I knew I got bags of clothes 4 times a year as well as cool wetsuits in any colour I liked!

Looking back now I realize how important it is to have a brand support you and how much Lizzy has done for me and my junior surfing career so far, also I realize how lucky I am to have a sponsor and have been sponsored for so long and had such support from such a great team of people.

I hope they are as proud of me and what I have achieved as I am to have that sticker on the nose of my board.

Lizzy has been with me through all three of my SA Titles as well as my 3 world junior champs, and tons other contests over the years, all the wins and losses,  helping me with clothing, surfboards, finances awesome bikinis and a host of other accessories!

Looking forward to another awesome 10 years!!!!

Chanelle xxx

Catalogue Shoot at the Salt Rock Hotel way back in the day

Lizzy Ad after winning my first South African Title the u/8 Boys/Girls Division.

Check the old team rider sticker :)

2013 Billabong Junior Series Champion!

Winning the 2010 South African Champs

Blasting at a recent event!

Snapping Away

Getting Ready for worlds earlier this year!

Surfing in the open ladies division at the Lizzard Pro in 2008




 

2014 Update

So I have been very quiet on the blog this year, travelling and then trying to catch up school, it's been a big ask to try and balance everything, with matric trials starting today I finally have a bit of time to put a lil blog together.

My year this far as far as contests go has been pretty successful:

Worlds - 22nd u/18 girls (Not the result I wanted!)
Billabong Junior Series - Mossel Bay - 1st u/18 Girls & 2nd in the ASP Pro Junior Women
Durban Surf Extravaganza - 1st u/18 girls & 3rd u/20 girls.
Billabong Junior series - Cape Town - 4th ASP Pro Junior Ladies
Selected to represent ASP Africa at the 2014 ASP World Junior Champs to be held in Portugal at the end of October.

Unfortunately the ASP worlds clashes with my Matric finals and after looking at all the ways it would be able to work out, we decided that education comes first and I had to give up my place on the team to Gina Smith who was next in line. Lucky I'm only 17 and have another 3 years  in the pro junior, so I WILL BE BACK!

Right now I have about 3 weeks to go till the final stop of the Billabong Junior series and then straight into my last SA Junior Champs, so the next few weeks will consist of plenty time in the water, in between my exams as well as in the gym working on my fitness, strength and flexibility.

Will try keep my blog up dated in my build up to these 2 important events!!

Photo shoot I did with Fabian Coetzee, a month back, that made it into the "Up Start" Section of last months Zigzag.

In between all the madness I also had my Matric Dance :)