Sierra Kerr and Jarvis Earle Win 2024 Burton Automotive Pro Junior
Sierra Kerr (AUS) and Jarvis Earle (AUS) have continued their incredible runs of form in 2024, claiming victory at the Burton Automotive Pro Junior, World Surf League (WSL) event. The pair overcame a massive field of over 90 of Australia’s best 20-and-under surfers in fun, 2-foot surf at Birubi Beach in Port Stephens. Sierra Kerr […]
Sanbah Surf’s Worlds Biggest Demo Day is on again!
The Sanbah Surf Worlds Biggest Demo Day is on again! Be at Dixon Park Beach Newcastle, Sunday 29 October from 8am to 1pm to demo the world’s best and latest surfboard models, soft boards, fins, surf hardware, accessories, and bikes and all for free. With over 40 brands attending and with hundreds of surfboards to […]
Surfest’s Evolution Charity Cup raises over $50k for the Mark Hughes Foundation
THE Lake Mac City Lifeguard Team has taken out the 2022 Evolution Charity Cup supporting the Mark Hughes Foundation at Dixon Park beach – for the fourth successive year. This year’s event was delayed for three weeks due to adverse weather and swell conditions. But it was well worth the wait, with Dixon Park turning […]
Jackson Baker and Macy Callaghan Claim Victory at Newcastle Surfest WSL QS 5000
MEREWETHER, NEWCASTLE, NSW/AUS (Sunday, April 3 2022) – Jackson Baker and Macy Callaghan have claimed epic victories at the City of Newcastle Pro presented by Burton Automotive the crowdfunded AAP Consulting Women’s Pro World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) 5000 events as part of the 2022 Newcastle Surfest. It was a massive day of competition with the […]
Whopping $29910 raised for Meg Purser’s Pathways Program
A WHOPPING $29,910 has been raised via a silent auction to raise funds for the Meg Purser’s Pathways Program to benefit local female surfers. Meg’s Program was established to honour the legacy of Meg Purser, who died in January 2021 after an 18-month battle with breast cancer. She was 53. Meg, and her company Purser […]
Freshwater boys and Tuggerah Lakes girls emerge victorious at
Surfest High Schools Teams Challenge
The NBSC Freshwater Senior Campus Boys team and the Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College Tumbi Umbi Campus girls rose above 18 other teams from NSW high schools at the Surfest Schools Team Challenge as part of the 36th Surfest at Dixon Park beach. The unique event saw each team nominate a maximum of five surfers with […]
Championship Tour Stars Take Over City of Newcastle Pro Day 2
A handful of World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) competitors have made cameo appearances today at Merewether Beach for Day 2 of the 2022 City of Newcastle pro presented by Burton Toyota Qualifying Series (QS) 5000 event as part of Newcastle Surfest. It was another big day of competition with the completion of the […]
WSL Qualifying Series Returns to Newcastle For Opening Day of 2022 Surfest
The World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) has returned to Merewether for the first time since 2020 for the opening day of the Newcastle Surfest QS 5000. Day 1 of competition saw Round 1 of the City of Newcastle Pro men’s event along with the opening 8 heats of the AAP Consulting Women’s Pro run […]
Inaugural Challenge Her Team’s Classic Lights Up Surfest
OVER 100 women and girls took part in an Australian-first, all-ages, all-abilities mixed board event that ignited a new wave of not only women’s surfing, but women’s sport. The Challenge Her Team’s Classic is part of the Surfing NSW Her Wave initiative supported by the NSW Government’s Her Sport Her Way program with the aim of increasing female participation in sport. […]
2022 Champs crowned at Wandiyali Indigenous Classic in Newcastle
(27 March 2022-Merewether beach- NEWCASTLE AUSTRALIA) FORMER World Surf League Championship Tour surfer Soli Bailey has won the open mens at the Wandiyali Indigenous Classic, while Central Coast surfer JasmIne McCorquodale was victorious in the womens. More than 60 Indigenous surfers contesting five divisions surfed in the two-day event held at Surfest. The Wandiyali Indigenous […]
