Roxy team riders Alison Bowman (VA) Amy Murphree (FL/CA) and Bree Kleintop (VA) surfed their way to the top over this weekend’s 48th annual East Coast Surfing Championships (ECSC) held in the beautiful ‘Lovers’ state of Virginia. The ECSC is the oldest continuously running surfing contest in North America, and was loaded with high profile East and West coast surfers. Taking home the gold in Girls Division was our own Alison Bowman, also placing 4th in her Jr. women final. Captivated spectators cheered on Virginia Beach local, Bree Kleintop, as she powered through her Junior women final placing 4th over all! And another 1st place Roxy girl finish went to Amy Murphree in the Women’s Long Board Division, also placing 5th over all in the Women’s pro event! Congratulations girls and good luck in all your upcoming events!
Roxy’s Own Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) ,19 , has once again secured a solid result as she continues her highly consistent year on tour. Spectators cheered her on as she charged through heat after heat collecting high scores and 1st’s all the way up to the Final. Unfortunately the Final was held in less then desirable conditions and Sally took her only 2nd place of the comp in the her last heat of the week- the one on one final with US open winner Carissa Moore (HI) , 17. “It was a really tough Final and there wasn’t much opportunity to open up,” Fitzgibbons said. “I had a really good time here at the US Open and second place is awesome so I’ll just take it and move on to the next event.” Sally is ultra fired up for her next event and as ready and focused as an athlete can be. Be sure to follow up on Sally and what she’s up to next at http://www.sallyfitzgibbons.com/
Sally Fitzgibbons finished first in her heat, and will face off against Jacqueline Silva in the semi-finals.
Here are the results:
US Open of Surfing Women’s Quarterfinals Results:
QF 1: Carissa Moore (HAW) 13.67 def. Laura Enever (AUS) 8.16 QF 2: Lakey Peterson (USA) 10.77 def. Tyler Wright (AUS) 10.50 QF 3: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 11.50 def. Sarah Baum (ZAF) 6.30 QF 4: Jacqueline Silva (BRA) 15.10 def. Justine Dupont (FRA) 10.27
Watch Sally compete today at 2:45 or watch it live on the US Open of Surfing site. Laura Enever’s also competing today in the Pro Junior Women Finals today. Come down to HB or watch the live feed on US Open of Surfing site. Go Roxy!
The ASP Women’s 6-star US Open of Surfing presented by Hurley & Nike 6.0 is well on its way.
We are so very proud to announce Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), Laura Enever (AUS) and Sarah Baum (ZAF) have all made it onto the quarter finals in today’s event! Results from today’s round 4 of the Huntington Beach US OPEN:
Sally took 1st in Heat #3 of Round 4
Laura took 1st in Heat #2 of Round 4
Sara took 2nd in Heat #4 of Round 4
Sally emerges as she is the one to beat for the $50,000 prize purse (richest purse in women’s surfing), but as you can see all the girls were once again absolutely on fire! Be sure to cagch these girls in their quarter finals on Friday August 6th at 11:20am either online or come down to support the team in Huntington Beach! Go Roxy!
Journey’s + Roxy team up to give you The “Style:Head to Shoe” Contest. You can enter to win a styling trip to NEW YORK!
All you have to do is enter on the Journey’s website! Sign up there & you could win win win!
Watch the video below to find out just HOW to “Style: Head to Shoe” looks like. Surfers Bree Klinetop, Jen Smith, and Amy Murphree show us that styling your Roxy sneaks with our Fall 2010 line takes no more than 30 seconds! Kira Sheppard hosted this fun styling challenge. Lookin’ good ladies!
As we were feverishly tweeting away about Torah’s ESPY nomination and rallying the troops to “vote, vote vote!”, we kinda had a feeling she had this one in the bag. Maybe it was ESP, but we knew Torah would get her ESPY. What title did she add to her long list of awards during the ESPYs, which aired Wednesday July 14, 2010? “Best Female Action Sports Athlete“, of course!
Thanks Torah for texting us this beautiful picture of you below!
Torah Bright and Sarah Burke are BOTH nominated at the Teen Choice Awards for Best Female Action Sports Athlete, which will air August 9, 2010. You can vote EVERYDAY until August 6, 2010! So go and support our amazing athletes! VOTE HERE.
Tweet and WIN! Enter to win a Roxy Bright Edition eminence BTX LE Banana Traction (148cm) board SIGNED by Torah Bright herself! You will get #4 out of only 100 signed boards, which is valued at over $500!!!
How do you enter? On Twitter, obvi! Just retweet this message:
“PLEASE VOTE for @ROXY girls @TorahBurke and @sarah_j_burke everyday ’til 8/6 for best female action sports athlete!! at www.teenchoiceawards.com“.
From now until voting ends we want you guys to retweet this over and over! Each tweet is considered an entry! Just be sure to include @Roxy so we can find you and don’t forget to follow us!
Open to U.S. residents, only. For a complete set of rules, click here.
“It was like six minutes to the end and feelings just all washed over me and I was tingling. It’s such an amazing feeling to win. I had some pressure though when I paddled into a wave and left Kaitlin (Maguire) on her own because she can pull a world championship out of her hat anytime.”- Cori’s words after taking home the title in LA COTE DES BASQUES, Biarritz, France (Sunday, July 11, 2010). Cori (33,California USA) defeated fellow finalist Kaitlin Maguire (22, California USA) in a 100% American heat. A huge Congrats to Cori Schumacher, making us proud!
Roxy’s own Tatiana Weston-Webb (Kauai’) has been crowned champion of both the Girls Under 14 and Under 16 divisions at the 2010 Surfing America USA Championships at Lower Trestles, California!!! As she gracefully slashed her way to the top, spectators were left wide eyed as she strategically picked off the bomb set waves all week at Lowers! Charging! Good girl Tati!! Congrats on your double win.
We were lucky enough to catch the little blonde fish out of the water long enough for a quick Q and A:
You must have been so psyched to get some sweet waves at lowers during the comp. Had you been training beforehand at all? Were you practically living at lowers before the competition started?
“Yes, I was super psyched to have great waves at Lowers. Actually I wasn’t surfing lowers that much because I knew there would be a crowd. So I was just surfing a LOT.”
How does it feel to take out some of this countries top up and coming girl surfers? “I can’t even explain the feeling. I’m just so stoked!”
What’s next for Tatiana Weston-Webb?
“My next step hopefully is to do some jr. pros and beat some very well known names.”
Awesome Tatiana! Sounds like the fire has been lit and you are on your way! Many Congrats!!
A mucho grande congratulations goes out to ten year old Leilani Mcgonagle for taking first place this last week in Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica. It was Costa Ricas national Championship event put on by the Costa Rican National Circuit (CNS). Leilani is one of roxy’s youngest sweethearts. She lives in beautiful Pavones,Costa Rica (known for its glorious surf) and it has clearly paid off in her surfing. Keep an eye out for this little one and congrats again Leilani!
