David Gillespie (Lyne, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I would like to give a big congratulations and a huge shout-out to Lucy Miller of Taree Old Bar Surf Life Saving Club who recently won the Surf Life Saving Junior Life Saver of the Year at the Lower North Coast awards. I would also like to congratulate Lucy Monaghan, Monique Durbridge, Maddy Major, Emma Eggins and Grace Monaghan of the Wauchope Bonny Hills Surf Life Saving Club who recently won their first ever Surf Life Saving NSW Country Championship open women's gold medal at Forster, also in my electorate. Their crew is known as the Boatettes and they usually compete in the under-23 women's competitions, but this was in the open category.

Speaking of Forster, the site of this championship, the town was also buzzing on 19 January when the Forster tri club held its first girls-only triathlon. Event organisers and volunteers included Aaron Eichner, Tracey and Richard Sewell, Tristan Marshall, Matt and Ashley Birks, Louise Every, Leighton and Trent Hopper. Everyone at the registration and out on the course managed to keep the event running like clockwork. Everyone was thrilled that the first-ever girls-only triathlon was such an outrageous success, and I look forward to the next one.