The Barbados Surfing Association held its annual Soup Bowl Junior Pro on Friday, November 30th at the Soup Bowl, Bathsheba. This year the title sponsor was The Tec Corner and the Juniors battled it out for some amazing prizes, with the finalists of the Under 21 Division also winning cash! This our premier junior division was dominated by the Barbadians with an in-form Dane Mackie copping first place, followed by Daniel Edghill, both of whom took advantage of the chest to head high waves on offer to showcase their repertoire of explosive manoevres. Third was Nathan Behl from the United States who was also in imppressive form along with Joshua Burke from Barbados who rounded out the top four.
The Under 18 Girls’ Division was an all Barbadian affair and was dominated by one of Barbados’ top female surfers, Chelsea Roett, with her signature power surfing. Second was an ever improving Giselle Allan, who is only eleven years old. Third was another young, up and coming surfer, Roma Bellori while Olivia Warden was fourth.
In the Under 16 Boys’ Division, Rafael Debierre from Guadeloupe surfed strong to take the win from Daniel Edghill of Barbados, while Joshua Burke was third and Dane Mackie fourth.
Rafael’s brother, Thomas, would follow in his older brother’s footsteps and win the Under 12 Boys’ Division with solid surfing beyond his years. Second was another surfer from Guadeloupe, Nico Guimond. Two of Barbados’ top grommetts, Jacob Burke and Zander Venezia did their country proud placing third and fourth respectively.
