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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Galt shines at surfing Champs

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T&T born surfer Josh Galt was crowned ju­nior cham­pi­on and al­so made it to the fi­nal of the Men's Open at the Na­tion­al Surf­ing Cham­pi­onships held at Saly­bia Beach, To­co last week­end.Galt, who honed his skills while liv­ing in Bar­ba­dos, was too good for de­fend­ing ju­nior cham­pi­on Jyiell Lewis on the day. The Men's Open was fierce­ly con­test­ed with young Galt and Lewis among the fi­nal­ists on a week­end that pro­duced con­sis­tent shoul­der-high waves, giv­ing surfers a high-per­for­mance line up. Chris Den­nis edged out Jesse Jarvis to take top spot in the Men's Open with quick con­trolled surf­ing, max­i­miz­ing the long-break­ing reef waves.The Women's Open saw long-stand­ing women's cham­pi­on Kathy Ann Smith take first place over the pre­dom­i­nant­ly young field, which in­clud­ed Jor­dan van Reeken, who was crowned the Un­der-18 Cham­pi­on. In­dica­tive of the ris­ing trend among fe­male surfers in T&T, the field con­sist­ed of new­com­ers to the com­pet­i­tive field such as Ash­ley Ale­ong and El­la Tur­ton.Or­gan­is­ers at the Surf­ing As­so­ci­a­tion were en­cour­aged by the strong show­ing of many young surfers com­ing out of the Surf­ing De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme.


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