Winning Girl Alice Gilbert with Steave Reddy CEO Surfing South Australia and Winning Boy Stephen Manners  

Serena who is a Hive Swimwear Team Rider sent us these great photos of her surfing in Indo recently.
Thanks for the photos Serena!

We had our main tournament for the season, Aussie Champs, where there were four of the Hive girls who competed. For Jacqui and Emma, this was their first Australian Championships and had a tough 1st round match against a strong QLD team who ended up finishing 4th overall in the tournament. Progressing to their second game, they were faced with another tough QLD team, losing a very close three set match. Although they were disappointed to be knocked out, they played the best they have ever played and did very well for their first Australian Championships. Cassie & I were competing in our 2nd Australian Championships and were hoping to finish better than our 17th place in 2009. Our first game was a close match against another strong QLD team. Unfortunately, we lost a tight 2 set match to them. Our 2nd round game was against 2 young AIS girls. We played a tidy match, winning comfortably in 2 sets. Our next game was against a strong Australian junior team, and although we played extremely well, they were too good for us and beat us in 2 sets. We finished in 17th place, equal to our effort in 2009.

Our last tournament for the season was State finals. Four of the Hive girls competed in State finals. Robyn played with a new partner, Karlie Willmott and they played well for their first tournament together finishing with 9th place. Cassie and I played together again and had a solid tournament finishing in 7th place. Sally Greenup played in another new pairing with Anna Guenkel. They played extremely well against a strong field just getting knocked out in the semi-finals by the eventual winners.

We had our season presentation after finals too. I was lucky enough to win two awards, one for “Most Improved” for the season, and the other for “Best Defender”. All of the girls put in a lot of hard work and saw great improvements over the season. We have had lots of great feedback about the bikinis and we have even seen some of the other girls wearing some Hive purchases too. I have included some more pictures for you attached to this email. I will also attach the picture of Cass and I that was in our local paper the Northside Chronicle p63 10/03/10.