February 6, 2025 • 15 mins
She's 15 and being touted as better than Sally Fitzgibbon at her age. And Gerringong's Lucy Durragh's family is doing everything to keep this goofy-footer riding the wave of success!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I Heart shoal Haven, get a, I'm Pete Andrea. Shoal
Haven Beaches have produced some of the biggest names on
the World Surfing Tour, like Olympic medalist cul Borough's Owen
Right and his brother Mikey, who's a renowned big waverrider.
Little sister Tyler Wright is a legend on the women's tour,
a two time World Surfing champion who's also represented Australia
(00:24):
at the Olympics. And of course, one big WSL name
is Sally Fitzgibbon, who also calls the shoal Haven home
Little Wonder. Both Sally and Tyler have inspired yet another
Shoalhaven surfer who's making her mark. Jerringong's Lucy Dura is
considered by those in the surfing scene as one to
watch with enormous potential. Her first taste of international comp
(00:48):
happened in twenty twenty two when the then fourteen year
old joined the WSL Women's Junior Tour, and boy is
she getting noticed. Dara's twenty twenty four included winning the
under sixth team's title at the twenty twenty four Billibong
Ocky Grom comp as well as the under sixteenth title
at the TAJ Small Friars event in Western Australia. She's
(01:10):
currently rated number one under sixteen surfer in OZ and
the stylish goofy footer has big ambitions for twenty twenty
five and all this doesn't leave much time for school,
so Lucy is opting to study via distance education so
she can travel the world chasing those big waves. Lucy,
thanks for your time, because I know you're a busy,
(01:32):
busy young lady. In fact, you're probably really hanging out
to get out of the surf now as we speak.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting out for a surf
this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Anything better than talking to an old journal like me,
I suppose. Now, you've had a really breakout year last
year it ended with some really good results for you.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, it was a really good year. It was my
first year in the the sixteen girls and my goal
that year was to qualify for the ISA World Juniors.
And at the end of the year they made the
semi finals and then I made the final for the
Aussie titles, so I qualified for the ISA World Juniors.
(02:16):
So I was really happy with that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, and then this year you've kicked it off with
a winning performance over in Wa, I believe.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh yeah, I went over to Wa for the Tars
Small Fries and I did that comp last year. It
was such a fun comp. I loved going over to
w A. There's so many good ways. So I was
really happy to win it this year.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah. And so you've caught the eye of some of
Australia's best surfers. How is it when you're training and
working with that caliber of surfer.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, it's really like inspiring. I just love like pushing
myself with better surfers and trying to like surfer them,
trying to do like bigger terms, and then it's just
really good trying to push myself and it's also like
really inspiring and motivating seeing what they can do.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah. And I suppose your initial motivation came from dad,
who threw you in the water with the board when
you were only a youngster. Do you remember the first
time you really got hooked on surfing?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And I think I sort of started like really staring surfing,
and I was out like seven. I just wanted to
go for my surf all the time, like every morning
for school. And then yeah, I just when I was
about eight, I got my first like custom board. Dad
got it for me for my birthday, and yeah, I
just really got hooked. And then h nine or turn.
(03:45):
I was just surfing every day. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And what is it about surfing that you love?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I just love how fun it is, like getting out
in the ways, and it's just such a fun sport
surfing as friends. You can do it with all friends,
and it just feels so good getting out in the ocean.
And I just love like trying to improve my turns
every day. It's a really challenging sport, but I just
love trying to improve.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Now, do you have a favorite beach locally?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I love Whary of course, that's my local beach.
I love going down to Ossie Pipe down at Jervis Bay,
love the ways down there. And then I love like
Cowries up near Shell Harbor. So there's so many good
beaches around the South Coast that I can serve.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
What's your favorite break at beach break or a you
know the reef break or left or right hander.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Around around the South Coast. It's probably Ossie Pipe. It's
a left and the right, but it's a reef break,
but the left usually barrels more and the right sometimes barrels,
but it's also good for turns right.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So what do you ride? Goofy or straight up?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm a goofy Twitter.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You're like me with the left wok forward.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That presents a couple of different sort of challenges for
a board rider because normally on those waves where the
other riders have got their back to it, you're facing it.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, not true, and goofy sometimes you're facing the way.
Sometimes you've got your back to it. So it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
When you're at home, do you practice you know, maybe
aeriels and things like that. Is that something that you're
starting to get into.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, definitely. In the summer holidays, I've just been been
really small surf at wary Beat. I've just been practicing
areas like every surf I'm really trying to master them.
So it's really good trying to practice them.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, because when you watch the you know, the the
World Surf League guys and girls, they're the sort of
things they're pulling off now on on a more regular basis,
So it's really upping the skill level that you need.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Hey, Yeah, definitely, there's so many guys and definitely some
girls doing really good areas, even in evening comps in
the WSL and the Challenge series. So it's definitely something
you've got to know how to do.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, And obviously when you're trying new tricks, sometimes you
come off.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah I've fallen off like a million times showing airs.
But it's all part of learning.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
When you were growing up and looking at the female
surfers that were going around, who was the one you
were thinking, Cricky, I'd like to surf like her.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh that's to be oly Sally, Who's gibbons and Molly
pick them. Sally's like so nice. I see her out
in the surf sometimes I surf with her a few
times the Ozzie Pipe and she's just so inspiring. She's
really nice and she serves so well. And Molly just charges.
He's got that massive barrows at Pipeline. She got ten
(06:58):
last year though. A definitely two of my favorites female surfers.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And I suppose anything that they pass on to you
that's liquid gold for you.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Definitely, Sally's been really nice, like sort of helping men
watching a few of my comps. Yeah, I'm just trying
to listen to everything she says, watching us, just trying
to take it all in.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, because she's been there and done that. And that's
where you want to be, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, definitely, that's where I want to be.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, And so how do you progress from here? You're
under sixteens now there's some surfers that are only a
little bit older than you that are in the WSL Tour.
How do you know when you think it might be
right to go pro?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well, this year, I might try to do any a few
of the Qualifying Series a QS events and if you
rank in the top four I think in Australia for
the QS, you get onto the Challenger Series and the
Challenges period is where is like one step below the
world to us. So I guess just trying to do
(08:05):
a few qs's and try and qualify under the Challenger
in the next few years.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, And that's where surfing takes on a different perspective.
It's not just about waxing down the board and hitting
the waves. It's about planning strategy, it's about having a
team behind you. That must be pretty exciting stuff to
think about.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, it's really exciting. Such a higher level of competition
and surfing in the QS and challenge off, You've just
you've really got to have everything right, like you've got
to have good heat strategies and be able to surf
really good in heat and free surfing. So it's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, and overseas comp you get a lot of different breaks.
What's the biggest break that you think you've surfed.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I've been over to them, Intawi's a few times. I've
served like a few ways I can do. You left
to really really good. Left it's a refbreak, barrels really good.
And then rifles is a riot. It's also a barrel
and a ref breke. So those are two really good ways.
But I'm hoping to surf some big waves like as
(09:15):
I get older and as I get onto the world too,
like choker and pipeline.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
What six eight ten foot is? Yeah, hopefully they're pretty
daunting those barrels.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, they look pretty scary, but hopefully I can just
keep circling them and just charge.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I suppose that's what it's all about. That adrenaline buzz,
that rush you know when you when you you on
the top of that Chris that way there and you're
just about to drop in. How does that feel.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, it's pretty scary actually. Like I started out Can Dewey,
it was about eight ten foot and just paddling into
the waves, you just got like, I feel like you've
got a mountain below you to take off on and
then China speed us and pull into the barrel. It's
really challenging, but it's such a rewarding feeling, like getting
(10:13):
barred and coming out and all the wife outs, it's
still worth it.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You're listening to iheartshoual Haven and our conversation with Jerringong's
Lucy Durer on the crest of breaking into the super
competitive World Surf League.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I Heart shoal Haven. I Heart shoal Haven.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Gerringong's are becoming surfing style. Lucy Durer is our guest
and at almost fifteen years of age, her reputation has
many older and more experienced juniors looking over their shoulders.
Lucy is now working on her aerial skills, maneuvers that
separate the good surfer from the gun. Her dad, Alarm Durer,
introduced Lucy to surfing when she was five, but it
(10:59):
wasn't she was seven he realized his daughter really was something.
His little girl began pulling off epic maneuvers that left
Dad waiting for the next wave. How old was Lucy
when he first threw her onto a board and said,
get out there and have a crack.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
She started surfing at about age four that enjoyed it,
but didn't really love it because she felt the cold
and there was a lot of obstacles in the surf,
obviously with people. And then it wasn't until her older
sister just kept doing it over and over that she
saw the love for surfing. And it was about age
(11:36):
seven that she asked me to take her out again,
and then we went every morning before school, and then
she got hooked to it and I saw a little
bit of talent in her and it was very easy
to teach her. She's a great learner and a talented
young young girl.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So like a duck to water pretty much.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, she just when she decided to do it. When
she decides to do anything, she's quite quite clever. And surfing, yeah,
as I said, surfing was at around age seven, and
then she just wanted to keep going and loved it.
And Mick fitted in with the other sports that she
did with nippers and footy and swimming that surfing was
(12:17):
her true love from a fairly early age.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And so what did dad think when she started out?
Carving you on waves?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Didn't take too long. Actually, she picked it up really quickly,
and then by about age eleven or eleven or twelve,
probably eleven, she was already doing better turn than I
can do. I served a little bit as a youngster,
but I did other sports, and I've taught all of
my five children how to surf, and I look after
(12:49):
them at the nippers at Cherringong Surf Club. So yeah,
we're in the water a lot, our family.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And I suppose the future it's it's whatever all is
she wants to do with it, I suppose, because the
national selectors have certainly got their own.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, she's very, very lucky to be invited into the
national High Performance team. They call it the Talent id
Squad for Australian Surfing and she has access to the
High Performance Center at any time throughout the year for coaching, nutrition,
(13:26):
psychology and athlete engagement they call it. So they're really
they're taking a group of surfers that they've identified and
taking them under their wing to try and nurture them
and take them on to the elite level and hopefully
eventually the world stage and the Olympics. That's the aim
of that program, and we're very proud of Lucy to
(13:47):
be invited to join that group this year.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I suppose she's learning a little bit more than what
Dad could teach her.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
So I introduced her to the sport and shared we
had my love of the ocean, and now she's taking
it to her whole new level. And it's completely self driven,
self motivated. She serves every day at least twice a
day and does extra workouts at home on her own
and in the gym with other people. So yeah, she's
(14:18):
a very very determined young athlete and and we just
we're enjoying the ride. We love watching her compete, and
we love watching the surf.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's lam Durra Dad to local surfing prodigy Lucy, who's
about to check her board for another adventure. Next stop
the Australian Junior Titles in South Australia and hopefully selection
with the Ossie riy Hanjis to compete at the twenty
twenty six World Junior Titles. That's all for this Gnali
episode of Iheartshall Haven for now proudly supported by the
(14:50):
new South Wales government. I'm Pete Andrea, catch you next week.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I heartshall Haven
I Heart shoal Haven, get a, I'm Pete Andrea. Shoal
Haven Beaches have produced some of the biggest names on
the World Surfing Tour, like Olympic medalist cul Borough's Owen
Right and his brother Mikey, who's a renowned big waverrider.
Little sister Tyler Wright is a legend on the women's tour,
a two time World Surfing champion who's also represented Australia
(00:24):
at the Olympics. And of course, one big WSL name
is Sally Fitzgibbon, who also calls the shoal Haven home
Little Wonder. Both Sally and Tyler have inspired yet another
Shoalhaven surfer who's making her mark. Jerringong's Lucy Dura is
considered by those in the surfing scene as one to
watch with enormous potential. Her first taste of international comp
(00:48):
happened in twenty twenty two when the then fourteen year
old joined the WSL Women's Junior Tour, and boy is
she getting noticed. Dara's twenty twenty four included winning the
under sixth team's title at the twenty twenty four Billibong
Ocky Grom comp as well as the under sixteenth title
at the TAJ Small Friars event in Western Australia. She's
(01:10):
currently rated number one under sixteen surfer in OZ and
the stylish goofy footer has big ambitions for twenty twenty
five and all this doesn't leave much time for school,
so Lucy is opting to study via distance education so
she can travel the world chasing those big waves. Lucy,
thanks for your time, because I know you're a busy,
(01:32):
busy young lady. In fact, you're probably really hanging out
to get out of the surf now as we speak.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting out for a surf
this morning.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Anything better than talking to an old journal like me,
I suppose. Now, you've had a really breakout year last
year it ended with some really good results for you.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, it was a really good year. It was my
first year in the the sixteen girls and my goal
that year was to qualify for the ISA World Juniors.
And at the end of the year they made the
semi finals and then I made the final for the
Aussie titles, so I qualified for the ISA World Juniors.
(02:16):
So I was really happy with that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, and then this year you've kicked it off with
a winning performance over in Wa, I believe.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oh yeah, I went over to Wa for the Tars
Small Fries and I did that comp last year. It
was such a fun comp. I loved going over to
w A. There's so many good ways. So I was
really happy to win it this year.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah. And so you've caught the eye of some of
Australia's best surfers. How is it when you're training and
working with that caliber of surfer.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, it's really like inspiring. I just love like pushing
myself with better surfers and trying to like surfer them,
trying to do like bigger terms, and then it's just
really good trying to push myself and it's also like
really inspiring and motivating seeing what they can do.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah. And I suppose your initial motivation came from dad,
who threw you in the water with the board when
you were only a youngster. Do you remember the first
time you really got hooked on surfing?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And I think I sort of started like really staring surfing,
and I was out like seven. I just wanted to
go for my surf all the time, like every morning
for school. And then yeah, I just when I was
about eight, I got my first like custom board. Dad
got it for me for my birthday, and yeah, I
just really got hooked. And then h nine or turn.
(03:45):
I was just surfing every day. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And what is it about surfing that you love?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I just love how fun it is, like getting out
in the ways, and it's just such a fun sport
surfing as friends. You can do it with all friends,
and it just feels so good getting out in the ocean.
And I just love like trying to improve my turns
every day. It's a really challenging sport, but I just
love trying to improve.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Now, do you have a favorite beach locally?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I love Whary of course, that's my local beach.
I love going down to Ossie Pipe down at Jervis Bay,
love the ways down there. And then I love like
Cowries up near Shell Harbor. So there's so many good
beaches around the South Coast that I can serve.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
What's your favorite break at beach break or a you
know the reef break or left or right hander.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Around around the South Coast. It's probably Ossie Pipe. It's
a left and the right, but it's a reef break,
but the left usually barrels more and the right sometimes barrels,
but it's also good for turns right.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
So what do you ride? Goofy or straight up?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm a goofy Twitter.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
You're like me with the left wok forward.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That presents a couple of different sort of challenges for
a board rider because normally on those waves where the
other riders have got their back to it, you're facing it.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, not true, and goofy sometimes you're facing the way.
Sometimes you've got your back to it. So it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
When you're at home, do you practice you know, maybe
aeriels and things like that. Is that something that you're
starting to get into.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, definitely. In the summer holidays, I've just been been
really small surf at wary Beat. I've just been practicing
areas like every surf I'm really trying to master them.
So it's really good trying to practice them.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, because when you watch the you know, the the
World Surf League guys and girls, they're the sort of
things they're pulling off now on on a more regular basis,
So it's really upping the skill level that you need.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Hey, Yeah, definitely, there's so many guys and definitely some
girls doing really good areas, even in evening comps in
the WSL and the Challenge series. So it's definitely something
you've got to know how to do.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, And obviously when you're trying new tricks, sometimes you
come off.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah I've fallen off like a million times showing airs.
But it's all part of learning.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
When you were growing up and looking at the female
surfers that were going around, who was the one you
were thinking, Cricky, I'd like to surf like her.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh that's to be oly Sally, Who's gibbons and Molly
pick them. Sally's like so nice. I see her out
in the surf sometimes I surf with her a few
times the Ozzie Pipe and she's just so inspiring. She's
really nice and she serves so well. And Molly just charges.
He's got that massive barrows at Pipeline. She got ten
(06:58):
last year though. A definitely two of my favorites female surfers.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And I suppose anything that they pass on to you
that's liquid gold for you.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Definitely, Sally's been really nice, like sort of helping men
watching a few of my comps. Yeah, I'm just trying
to listen to everything she says, watching us, just trying
to take it all in.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, because she's been there and done that. And that's
where you want to be, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, definitely, that's where I want to be.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, And so how do you progress from here? You're
under sixteens now there's some surfers that are only a
little bit older than you that are in the WSL Tour.
How do you know when you think it might be
right to go pro?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well, this year, I might try to do any a few
of the Qualifying Series a QS events and if you
rank in the top four I think in Australia for
the QS, you get onto the Challenger Series and the
Challenges period is where is like one step below the
world to us. So I guess just trying to do
(08:05):
a few qs's and try and qualify under the Challenger
in the next few years.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, And that's where surfing takes on a different perspective.
It's not just about waxing down the board and hitting
the waves. It's about planning strategy, it's about having a
team behind you. That must be pretty exciting stuff to
think about.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yeah, it's really exciting. Such a higher level of competition
and surfing in the QS and challenge off, You've just
you've really got to have everything right, like you've got
to have good heat strategies and be able to surf
really good in heat and free surfing. So it's really exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Yeah, and overseas comp you get a lot of different breaks.
What's the biggest break that you think you've surfed.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I've been over to them, Intawi's a few times. I've
served like a few ways I can do. You left
to really really good. Left it's a refbreak, barrels really good.
And then rifles is a riot. It's also a barrel
and a ref breke. So those are two really good ways.
But I'm hoping to surf some big waves like as
(09:15):
I get older and as I get onto the world too,
like choker and pipeline.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
What six eight ten foot is? Yeah, hopefully they're pretty
daunting those barrels.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, they look pretty scary, but hopefully I can just
keep circling them and just charge.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I suppose that's what it's all about. That adrenaline buzz,
that rush you know when you when you you on
the top of that Chris that way there and you're
just about to drop in. How does that feel.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, it's pretty scary actually. Like I started out Can Dewey,
it was about eight ten foot and just paddling into
the waves, you just got like, I feel like you've
got a mountain below you to take off on and
then China speed us and pull into the barrel. It's
really challenging, but it's such a rewarding feeling, like getting
(10:13):
barred and coming out and all the wife outs, it's
still worth it.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You're listening to iheartshoual Haven and our conversation with Jerringong's
Lucy Durer on the crest of breaking into the super
competitive World Surf League.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I Heart shoal Haven. I Heart shoal Haven.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Gerringong's are becoming surfing style. Lucy Durer is our guest
and at almost fifteen years of age, her reputation has
many older and more experienced juniors looking over their shoulders.
Lucy is now working on her aerial skills, maneuvers that
separate the good surfer from the gun. Her dad, Alarm Durer,
introduced Lucy to surfing when she was five, but it
(10:59):
wasn't she was seven he realized his daughter really was something.
His little girl began pulling off epic maneuvers that left
Dad waiting for the next wave. How old was Lucy
when he first threw her onto a board and said,
get out there and have a crack.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
She started surfing at about age four that enjoyed it,
but didn't really love it because she felt the cold
and there was a lot of obstacles in the surf,
obviously with people. And then it wasn't until her older
sister just kept doing it over and over that she
saw the love for surfing. And it was about age
(11:36):
seven that she asked me to take her out again,
and then we went every morning before school, and then
she got hooked to it and I saw a little
bit of talent in her and it was very easy
to teach her. She's a great learner and a talented
young young girl.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So like a duck to water pretty much.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, she just when she decided to do it. When
she decides to do anything, she's quite quite clever. And surfing, yeah,
as I said, surfing was at around age seven, and
then she just wanted to keep going and loved it.
And Mick fitted in with the other sports that she
did with nippers and footy and swimming that surfing was
(12:17):
her true love from a fairly early age.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And so what did dad think when she started out?
Carving you on waves?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Didn't take too long. Actually, she picked it up really quickly,
and then by about age eleven or eleven or twelve,
probably eleven, she was already doing better turn than I
can do. I served a little bit as a youngster,
but I did other sports, and I've taught all of
my five children how to surf, and I look after
(12:49):
them at the nippers at Cherringong Surf Club. So yeah,
we're in the water a lot, our family.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And I suppose the future it's it's whatever all is
she wants to do with it, I suppose, because the
national selectors have certainly got their own.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, she's very, very lucky to be invited into the
national High Performance team. They call it the Talent id
Squad for Australian Surfing and she has access to the
High Performance Center at any time throughout the year for coaching, nutrition,
(13:26):
psychology and athlete engagement they call it. So they're really
they're taking a group of surfers that they've identified and
taking them under their wing to try and nurture them
and take them on to the elite level and hopefully
eventually the world stage and the Olympics. That's the aim
of that program, and we're very proud of Lucy to
(13:47):
be invited to join that group this year.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I suppose she's learning a little bit more than what
Dad could teach her.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
So I introduced her to the sport and shared we
had my love of the ocean, and now she's taking
it to her whole new level. And it's completely self driven,
self motivated. She serves every day at least twice a
day and does extra workouts at home on her own
and in the gym with other people. So yeah, she's
(14:18):
a very very determined young athlete and and we just
we're enjoying the ride. We love watching her compete, and
we love watching the surf.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
That's lam Durra Dad to local surfing prodigy Lucy, who's
about to check her board for another adventure. Next stop
the Australian Junior Titles in South Australia and hopefully selection
with the Ossie riy Hanjis to compete at the twenty
twenty six World Junior Titles. That's all for this Gnali
episode of Iheartshall Haven for now proudly supported by the
(14:50):
new South Wales government. I'm Pete Andrea, catch you next week.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I heartshall Haven
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