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DIRECTOR OF JUNIOR ACTIVITIES
ABOVE: Thanks to our amazing water safety. BELOW: Combining competition and friendships are what makes Sunshine such an amazing club.
Well...thank goodness that’s over! I’m not sure if it was the exhaustion of COVID-19 restrictions or just that I’m getting old[er] but I did feel season 2020/21 was the season that just kept on giving.
In a season where most of the Sunshine Coast Clubs were having to carefully manage their Junior Activities member numbers, and in the case of most of our larger neighbours, reducing their participation, Sunshine Beach grew our nipper numbers to a total of 191 just shy of the 200 cap that the JAC had decided to place on the 2020/21 season.
Where COVID-19 unceremoniously abruptly ended our 2019/20 season it also had a
huge impact on the start and duration of our 2020/21 season. In usual, classy style, our Sunny Sunshiners met the challenge head on and just got on with it. All geared up, ready and excited to start the season at the Rainbow Beach Carnival the bubble burst as it was cancelled! But as the terminology associated with our new normal prescribes, we ‘pivoted’, set up a field of play on the beach and just kept on keeping on.
I am proud to advise that we had a total of sixteen (16) Under 14 Nippers complete their
Surf Rescue Certificate this season and boost the ranks of our patrols. This group of Nippers displayed their Sunshine Spirit, in many ways, but insofar as Sunday Junior Activities is concerned, regularly turned up to provide Water Safety for their younger club members.
SOPHIE OLVER
Sunshine Beach Surf Life Saving Club Annual Report 2020/21
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